The Guardian - Fashion • Jan. 18, 2026, 5:36 p.m.

From vintage suede to discount designer heels, these wardrobe staples are often better preloved • From beeswax to baby wipes: how to make your leather last a lifetime What’s not to love about secondhand shopping? You get one-off pieces while making an environmentally conscious fashion choice.

From party dresses to jeans, some pieces are even better – and much more affordable – vintage. A well-made, brand-new leather jacket could set you back anywhere between £150 and £700, but you could pick up a secondhand one for £50 or less.

But it can be daunting when you first start. Knowing what you’re looking for and where you can find it is key.

The Guardian - Fashion • Jan. 18, 2026, 5:36 p.m.

The Gardanas, a pair of mucus-coloured hemp shoes, are a somewhat paradoxical current must-have. But their appeal goes deeper than the topsoil • Don’t get Fashion Statement delivered to your inbox?

Sign up here There is every chance that 2026 will be the year you see your first pair of Gardana gardening clogs in the wild. In fact, if you spend much time on TikTok, or live in Brooklyn, you’ve probably already been seeing them for months, if not years.

I saw my first pair a few weeks ago. I watched a dad dropping his kids off at school in head-to-toe Carhartt, a pair of Gardanas peeping out from below his trousers like a shy frog.

The Guardian - Fashion • Jan. 18, 2026, 5:36 p.m.

Bring your ostracised wardrobe items in from the cold by forgetting about whether they go with each other. Instead, let them shine in all their glory Fashion is a dance between rules and rebellion.

Great style requires a bit of both. The rules are essential, because one of the key emotional benefits that a great wardrobe can deliver is a sense of control in a chaotic world.

The rules are there to simplify and clarify, lighting our route to a well put-together outfit. That well put-together outfit has the power to help you feel calmer, simply because you look in the mirror and see a competent person and therefore feel like a competent person.

The Guardian - Fashion • Jan. 18, 2026, 5:36 p.m.

Trend of mini-me dressing – wearing same clothes as one’s children – has extended to four-legged friends Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian are some of the many who have long indulged in mini-me dressing – wearing the same clothes as their children – but now the trend is being extended to people’s four-legged companions, too. The dog clothing market is soaring and this winter it is coats that are topping the most in-demand list.

Bestsellers at Pawelier , a London-based luxury pet accessories shop include a £135 four-leg puffer coat complete with a fuzzy hood and toggle detailing, and a £110 reversible down-filled jumpsuit in cornflower blue and cappuccino brown that wouldn’t look out of place on a designer catwalk. The Italian greyhounds and whippets pictured bundled up in them appear to be prepped for an Alpine adventure rather than a lap around the park.

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The Guardian - Fashion • Jan. 18, 2026, 5:36 p.m.

From Greenland’s prime minister to Timothée Chalamet, the anorak signals a shift from aspiration to realism Power dressing usually comes in the form of a suit or a wide-shouldered wool coat. But right now, things look a little different.

This week, Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, appeared at a joint press conference with Denmark’s leader to say that he had no intention of acquiescing to Donald Trump’s stated desire to “own” Greenland – all while wearing a glacial-blue windbreaker. It is a garment Nielsen wears regularly but, in this shifting geopolitical moment, it took on a new, loaded and striking messaging.

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The Guardian - Fashion • Jan. 18, 2026, 5:36 p.m.

Fashion elder compères his own celebration of designs revived from his archive by design director Sam Cotton This January marks the first menswear fashion week in Milan without a familiar constant in Giorgio Armani, after the designer died aged 91 in September. But the brand will still show on Monday, and there are other elder statesmen on the schedule in the shape of Ralph Lauren, 86, and Paul Smith, who will be 80 this year.

Paul Smith showed his collection on Saturday evening at the brand’s Italian HQ . Its playful nature was evident from the format as Smith himself compèred, with descriptions of the designs and inspirations over a microphone.

The clothes demonstrated all the hallmarks that fans have come to love – bold prints, great suiting (this time oversized) and bright colours on sweaters and shirts. Continue reading...

Design Milk • Jan. 18, 2026, 5:36 p.m.

AAHA Studio reimagines the Pine Ave Residence in El Segundo as a calm, light-filled home where architecture reframes loss into renewal.

Design Milk • Jan. 18, 2026, 5:36 p.m.

Pavilion Sei, by Nicholas Bewick for Agape, is a modern, modular sauna with a turnkey system that makes creating a wellness space simple.

Design Milk • Jan. 18, 2026, 5:36 p.m.

EV giant Rivian expands into micromobility with the ALSO brand and its new seamlessly adaptable velocipede: the TM-B electric bike.

Design Milk • Jan. 18, 2026, 5:36 p.m.

A collection of handmade lamps and found assemblage, See Earth by Drew Seskunas of SAW.Earth elevates the ubiquity of paper, wood, and stone.

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