Haberdashery: Autumn / Winter 2027-28

It seems today that most design details are on the edge: trimming a world-famous jacket, piping a modernist grid, pleating an iconic shirt, smocking a childish bloomer. Metallic hardware has its own role to play as a harder shade in this otherwise hedonistic domain, yielding diversion between the same-old luxury looks and creative debauchery, from gilded buttons to razor blades and safety pins. Buttons are a category all of their own, designed to express culture and couture equally, welcoming materials such as mother-of-pearl, wood, leather, bakelite and even ceramics, in true arts and crafts tradition. All these haberdashery extremes are now the most vital ingredients in fashion, defining heritage, describing pedigree and designing the handwriting of a brand.

This is the first decade since the Second World War that haberdashery is not only back but outlines what clothes are all about, narrating ideas of convention and tradition, telling stories of underwear as outerwear and how antique laces are proving essential as romantic beacons. Haberdashery will drive the major style movements and co-design trends that are functional and emotional, bringing back codes of dressing up such as button-down collars, buckled belts, pleated rosettes, woollen pompoms, knitted mittens, felted hats and soft leather gloves. A shop full of wonder hidden in multiple drawers and displayed in an enticing cabinet of curiosities — at our disposal to bring a playful charm back to fashion and colour.