Best spent £20: London Fashion Week edition
Linen shorts, lip balm and lint rollers: we asked London’s most fashionable to tell us their best bargain picks
Linen shorts, lip balm and lint rollers: we asked London’s most fashionable to tell us their best bargain picks
When you think of fashion week, what comes to mind? If you're thinking creativity, luxury, glamour, flashing lights, stunning models, influencers and bougie vibes, then you're not wrong. It's unlikely that in this visual hodgepodge you thought of bargains, best buys, discounts or thrift stores. But as of Feb 15, the UK has officially tipped into recession and delulu denial isn't an option any longer.
So if the fears of an overstretched cozzie livs is bringing on a menty b, we feel you. It’s uncanny that London Fashion Week A/W24 kicked off the day after the news of economic stress broke out. Against convenient rhetoric, fashion is not free from the politics and financial instability of the world. So this year, along with asking the hot and glamorous what they're wearing and who it's by, woo asked street style stars what their best spent £20 on fashion is.
From sneaky Notting Hill cops and pound for pound silver jewellery to lint rollers and scrap fabric, it's all here.
What are you wearing today?
I'm wearing head to toe Ego. Denim’s always in so that and a pop of red, so people see you from far away.
What's your fashion week necessity?
A bag, I never leave without a bag. I always have hand sanitiser, lotion, powder everything.
What's your best spent £20 in fashion?
These boots! They’re from Ego, they were £18, so £2 saved!
What are you wearing today?
I'm wearing Simone Rocha from head to toe, I actually work with the designer, hence...
What's your fashion week necessity?
Coffee and cigarettes.
What's your best spent £20 in fashion?
I actually bought a really nice sheer silk blouse with a bow from a thrift shop down the corner from here.
What's your fashion week necessity?
Lip gloss!
What's your best spent £20 in fashion?
Jewellery, definitely. I love to buy really cheap, good quality pieces. I once got 20 pieces of silver jewellery for 20 quid from a charity shop.
What are you wearing today?
I made my own dress, just bought the corset. I wanted something that I’m in comfortable but has great vibes. I don’t dress by trends, I’m a fashion designer so I try to keep it fresh and colourful.
What is your fashion week necessity?
Comfortable shoes. I have to take the underground after this so I have to be able to walk comfortably!
What's your best buy under £20 in fashion?
I don't buy a lot, but I think discarded or leftover fabric that I’ve made things from.
What are you wearing today?
I actually made this dress, it's a recycled parachute that I bought at a Christopher Raeburn sample sale. It was ripped and shredded so I fixed it up. The bag is made from recycled soda caps, I got it from eBay.
What's your fashion week necessity?
A water bottle, I always have one. Mine has juice in it right now. You're running around so much so you need to stay hydrated!
What's your best spent £20 on fashion?
One of those reusable lint rollers, the metal ones. They’re incredible, they make everything look new!
What are you wearing today?
My jacket’s Martine Rose, my fringe dress is from & Other Stories. Then I’ve got Chloe boots, a Sandy Liang x Baggu bag and Lexxola sunglasses.
What's your fashion week necessity?
Stereotypical, but sunglasses to hide behind and a bag that can actually hold stuff.
What's your best buy under £20?
Scrunchies! I love to tie my hair back and they make for such good accessories, against popular opinion you can find really pretty ones under £20.
What are you wearing today?
I'm wearing an “end ceasefire” tee, a Molly Goodard skirt, red tights, Ganni shoes and a Casablanca coat. The theme was basically colours from the Palestine flag.
What's your fashion week necessity?
Really boring but a power bank, always helpful.
What's your best buy under £20 in fashion?
Lip balm! I can never have enough.
What are you wearing today?
I put my outfit together based on these shoes, I was wearing heels yesterday from 8am till midnight and my feet couldn’t take it. So the shoes are Jordans, Charles Jeffrey trousers and bag, Lexxola sunglasses and Simone Rocha earrings.
What’s your fashion week necessity?
Cigarettes.
*What’s your best spent £20 in fashion?
I’m very good at Depop. I got this Charles Jeffrey bag for £30. [not £20 but a great cop, so we'll allow it!]
What are you wearing today?
I'm attending the Robyn Lynch show, she's a good friend of mine and does a lot of work around Irish identities so I thought I'll wear green. I make my own clothes so it's not a specific designer.
Did you have any trends in mind while putting your outfit together?
I usually dress for myself but within my job I have to think of trends. Men are wearing a lot of denim-inspired clothing, a lot of coordinates so I'm wearing that.
What's your best spent £20 on fashion?
My Lucy & Yak bum bag, it's fun, it represents a really nice, diverse company.
What are you wearing today?
I'm wearing Paco and a J.W. Anderson bag. I saw Zendaya's Mugler outfit for the Dune premiere and decided I need to have some chain mail on.
What's your fashion week necessity?
A power bank for sure, and a Peperami and some nuts otherwise you starve.
What's your best spent £20 in fashion?
From Retro Woman Vintage in Notting Hill I got a pair of vintage linen Hermes shorts!
What are you wearing today?
I'm wearing head to toe Ego. Denim’s always in so that and a pop of red, so people see you from far away.
What's your fashion week necessity?
A bag, I never leave without a bag. I always have hand sanitiser, lotion, powder everything.
What's your best spent £20 in fashion?
These boots! They’re from Ego, they were £18, so £2 saved!
What are you wearing today?
I'm wearing Simone Rocha from head to toe, I actually work with the designer, hence...
What's your fashion week necessity?
Coffee and cigarettes.
What's your best spent £20 in fashion?
I actually bought a really nice sheer silk blouse with a bow from a thrift shop down the corner from here.
What's your fashion week necessity?
Lip gloss!
What's your best spent £20 in fashion?
Jewellery, definitely. I love to buy really cheap, good quality pieces. I once got 20 pieces of silver jewellery for 20 quid from a charity shop.
What are you wearing today?
I made my own dress, just bought the corset. I wanted something that I’m in comfortable but has great vibes. I don’t dress by trends, I’m a fashion designer so I try to keep it fresh and colourful.
What is your fashion week necessity?
Comfortable shoes. I have to take the underground after this so I have to be able to walk comfortably!
What's your best buy under £20 in fashion?
I don't buy a lot, but I think discarded or leftover fabric that I’ve made things from.
What are you wearing today?
I actually made this dress, it's a recycled parachute that I bought at a Christopher Raeburn sample sale. It was ripped and shredded so I fixed it up. The bag is made from recycled soda caps, I got it from eBay.
What's your fashion week necessity?
A water bottle, I always have one. Mine has juice in it right now. You're running around so much so you need to stay hydrated!
What's your best spent £20 on fashion?
One of those reusable lint rollers, the metal ones. They’re incredible, they make everything look new!
What are you wearing today?
My jacket’s Martine Rose, my fringe dress is from & Other Stories. Then I’ve got Chloe boots, a Sandy Liang x Baggu bag and Lexxola sunglasses.
What's your fashion week necessity?
Stereotypical, but sunglasses to hide behind and a bag that can actually hold stuff.
What's your best buy under £20?
Scrunchies! I love to tie my hair back and they make for such good accessories, against popular opinion you can find really pretty ones under £20.
What are you wearing today?
I'm wearing an “end ceasefire” tee, a Molly Goodard skirt, red tights, Ganni shoes and a Casablanca coat. The theme was basically colours from the Palestine flag.
What's your fashion week necessity?
Really boring but a power bank, always helpful.
What's your best buy under £20 in fashion?
Lip balm! I can never have enough.
What are you wearing today?
I put my outfit together based on these shoes, I was wearing heels yesterday from 8am till midnight and my feet couldn’t take it. So the shoes are Jordans, Charles Jeffrey trousers and bag, Lexxola sunglasses and Simone Rocha earrings.
What’s your fashion week necessity?
Cigarettes.
*What’s your best spent £20 in fashion?
I’m very good at Depop. I got this Charles Jeffrey bag for £30. [not £20 but a great cop, so we'll allow it!]
What are you wearing today?
I'm attending the Robyn Lynch show, she's a good friend of mine and does a lot of work around Irish identities so I thought I'll wear green. I make my own clothes so it's not a specific designer.
Did you have any trends in mind while putting your outfit together?
I usually dress for myself but within my job I have to think of trends. Men are wearing a lot of denim-inspired clothing, a lot of coordinates so I'm wearing that.
What's your best spent £20 on fashion?
My Lucy & Yak bum bag, it's fun, it represents a really nice, diverse company.
What are you wearing today?
I'm wearing Paco and a J.W. Anderson bag. I saw Zendaya's Mugler outfit for the Dune premiere and decided I need to have some chain mail on.
What's your fashion week necessity?
A power bank for sure, and a Peperami and some nuts otherwise you starve.
What's your best spent £20 in fashion?
From Retro Woman Vintage in Notting Hill I got a pair of vintage linen Hermes shorts!
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