THE FUSE

In case you haven’t noticed, there is a Great Slimming happening with clothing. Super-baggy denim is being traded in for slimmer styles (we’re not at skinny jeans yet, thankfully), going-out clothes are returning to their Hervé Léger bandage-dress roots, and scarves are being worn as tops. The latest piece to go under the shrink-wrap treatment is the jacket, which, in its shrunken form, has become the first must-have piece of 2026.