My Total Fashion

By Sofia Laurent — London-based fashion editor OK but hear me out — Bermuda shorts are the best thing to happen to the warm-weather wardrobe in years and almost nobody is giving them the credit they deserve. I used to avoid them. I thought they were the compromise option, the "I couldn't be bothered" choice. And then last June I wore a pair of tailored navy Bermudas to a garden party in Primrose Hill — silk camisole, block-heeled sandals, hair up — and three separate people stopped me to ask where I'd found the shorts. Three. Something shifted for me that afternoon. In 2026 the Bermuda short has been properly reconsidered — not as a casual fallback but as a genuine building block for polished, considered warm-weather dressing. These 15 looks prove exactly that. Some of them I'm genuinely obsessed with. Some are brilliant but not quite my personal energy. I'm going to be honest about which is which, because that's more useful to you than pretending ev...

By Sofia Laurent  |  February 2026 OK so here's the thing — I used to think statement sleeves were exclusively a "going out" situation. Big, billowy, dramatic? Save it for the weekend. That was my logic for, embarrassingly, most of my twenties. Then I wore a bishop-sleeve blouse to a styling shoot at Somerset House last spring, stepped into the lift, and ran into a commissioning editor from a major publication who spent a full two minutes asking where I'd found it. We were both headed to the same briefing room. That was the moment I properly understood: the office is exactly where statement sleeves belong. In a room full of fitted blazers and safe button-downs, a dramatic sleeve reads as intentional, considered, and — let's be honest — kind of thrilling. It says "I know exactly what I'm doing" without a single word. Why do we keep saving drama for the weekends when we spend the majority of our waking hours at work? After testing more combinati...

By Sofia Laurent — London-based fashion editor Here's what nobody's telling you: the women who consistently look the most polished in professional settings aren't spending more money or more time than everyone else. They've simply made one better decision. While most office dressing guides are still pushing the blazer-and-trouser formula as a revelation, the women who've genuinely sorted their wardrobes are quietly building around silk blouses — not as an afterthought, but as the centrepiece. A properly chosen silk blouse does something a cotton poplin or a polyester "professional top" can't: it moves with you, picks up light rather than flattening under it, and carries a physical quality that reads as expensive without requiring an explanation. Let's be honest, though — the silk blouse has an image problem in certain corners of the internet. People associate it with either stiff corporate dressing circa 2005 or floaty occasion pieces t...

By Sofia Laurent  |  London Fashion Editor There's a particular kind of confidence that visits you when your waist looks exactly as cinched as you intended before leaving the house. Not corseted, not uncomfortable — just defined. Announced. The peplum top has always understood this assignment better than almost anything else in the professional wardrobe, and I say that as someone who once spent three years dismissing it as "too fussy." I was wrong. Spectacularly, embarrassingly wrong. The structured little flare at the hip creates an hourglass illusion that rivals a tailored pencil skirt, balances proportions across a genuinely diverse range of bodies, and manages to feel both polished and a little playful — which, frankly, is the only energy I want bringing into a Monday morning. The 15 looks I've gathered here aren't about following a formula. They're about showing you the full range of what a peplum can do — from power-color cobalt to whisper-soft sa...