FROW News #113: Miranda's Back, Stella's Here & Skin That Drinks 👠✨🌸
The sequel the fashion world has been waiting twenty years for lands in cinemas the same week Stella McCartney drops at H&M, adaptive swimwear makes high street history and your skincare routine becomes something you can drink. Quite frankly, the industry has shown up this week.
Stella McCartney is back at H&M and the drop you've been waiting for is almost here ⭐♻️
Twenty years after the original sparked what the Guardian called "McCartney mania" on Oxford Street, people pulling pieces from each other's hands. Stella McCartney and H&M are back. This collection reads like a miniature retrospective of 25 years of the McCartney house: the iconic 'Rock Royalty' studded tee sits alongside sharp tailoring, archival bejewelled prints, a sweeping white gown and six bag styles anchored in Falabella chain detailing, all in recycled metal. The campaign stars Reneé Rapp, Angelina Kendall and Adwoa Aboah, with the NYC launch bringing out Janelle Monáe, Lila Moss and Mark Ronson. If 2005 is anything to go by, it will be gone before the week is out. Prices start from £27.99, available Thursday 7th May in selected H&M stores and at hm.com.
SKIMS' Riviera collection is about to take over your summer feed 🌊
SKIMS knows how to make a summer drop feel like an event and the Riviera Collection is no different. Bold carmine and obsidian swim, refreshed cotton staples and sheer cover-ups designed for wherever the season actually takes you, not just your vision board. The swim pieces are the talking point: clean, considered and built to look as good out of the water as in it. Bikini bottoms from £62, cover-ups from £94, with the sheer mini kaftan at £126.Available at skims.com.
Marella has found its London home on Marylebone High Street 🛍️
If you've ever wanted to dress like you summer in Italy but live in London, Marella, the contemporary brand from the Max Mara Fashion Group has just made that considerably easier. The brand opened its first London boutique at 8 Marylebone High Street last week, and the address is a natural fit: elegant, considered, not shouting about itself. The launch brought out Gigi Vassallo, Cora Corre and Emilia Silberg, all in pieces from the current collection spanning belted cady jackets, ruffle dresses, and a leather trench that will outlast every trend currently in your algorithm soundtracked by a DJ set from Kim Turnbull. Prices from £125, up to £565 for the leather trench. Shop in-store or at gb.marella.com.
& Other Stories' summer collection understands the assignment ☀️
& Other Stories has always understood that summer dressing isn't really about the day, it's about the moment when the day becomes the night and you haven't gone home to change. The Summer 2026 collection is built entirely around that logic: bias-cut satin dresses, fluid silk tops and slip skirts that carry you from afternoon straight through to late night without a second thought. Floral and paisley prints clash deliberately against primary brights and jewel tones, with cross-strap silver heels, red leather woven sandals and statement rhinestone jewellery doing the finishing work. From £57 for the drawstring top up to £139 for the gathered silk mini dress. Available now at stories.com.
Birkenstock has landed at Oliver Bonas and your summer wardrobe is better for it 🥿
Birkenstock at Oliver Bonas makes complete sense the moment you say it out loud, two brands that have always attracted the same kind of person: quality-conscious, slightly anti-trend, quietly confident about it. Oliver Bonas now stocks the Arizona, Boston and Madrid silhouettes in seasonal colourways including soft pink and powder blue suede, metallic finishes, leopard print and classic tan. Same iconic contoured footbed, same quality, now available on a Saturday browse without a specialist trip. Sizes EU 35–45, prices from £85. Available now in Oliver Bonas stores nationwide and at oliverbonas.com.
Benefit's Dream Sheen Brow Glaze is the glazed brow trend sorted ✨
Glazed everything has had its moment, glazed lips, glazed skin, glazed nails and now Benefit, the number one brow brand worldwide, has arrived at the logical conclusion: glazed brows. Dream Sheen Brow Glaze delivers all-day shine via a dual-sided applicator (brush side for even coverage, flat side for extra colour and intensity), with quinoa peptides for gloss and provitamin B5 for conditioning, all in a waterproof, smudge-proof formula with 12-hour wear. It's the kind of product that makes you wonder why it took this long. Available in three shades: Light, Medium and Deep at £26 from benefitcosmetics.com.
VIEVE's new Silhouette Stick went viral and for all the right reasons 🎨
Contouring has had a complicated few years, too heavy, too obvious, too much. Jamie Genevieve's VIEVE has quietly solved it with the Silhouette Stick: a creamy, cool-toned contour with a soft-matte finish that melts into skin and sets all day. The cool tone is the whole point, sculpt first, then layer a warmer bronzer over the top for genuine dimension rather than the muddy result you get when both products compete for the same space. It landed on Saffron Hocking last week, applied by makeup artist Nikki Wolf, and immediately started circulating. Six shades, Fair through to Rich at £26 each from vievebeauty.com.
Kama Ayurveda's first SPF finally makes sunscreen feel like proper skincare 🌿
Most SPFs do one thing and apologise for the rest, white cast, sticky finish, forgotten by 11am. Kama Ayurveda's first launch into sun protection, the Amsuman Daily Sun Shield SPF 50 PA++++, is built on a different premise entirely. A 98% natural-origin base combining Karanja oil (an Ayurvedic botanical with natural UV-shielding properties sourced from Kerala), derm-grade UVA/UVB filters, soybean oil for pollution defence and rice extract to guard against blue light. Invisible on skin, no white cast, and backed by clinical data showing a 90% reduction in skin inflammaging and 100% prevention against visible signs of ageing. The SPF that actually wants to be part of your routine. Available now at kamaayurveda.com, £46.
Floral Street's Bridgerton fragrance is back and in a new format 🌸
The Enchanted Masquerade eau de parfum, Floral Street's bestselling fragrance created for Bridgerton is now available as a perfume mist, and it's worth paying attention to beyond the obvious fandom appeal. The same floral gourmand scent (fresh pear, hazelnut and gardenia over a honeyed rose heart and cedarwood base) but with ActiScent technology, meaning the cabreuva oil actively soothes skin while you spritz. It's also the first fragrance mist in the UK market to use a fully metal-free, recyclable pump. Bridgerton season four has already captivated audiences on Netflix this year, and with season five now in production, the fandom isn't going anywhere. Available now at floralstreet.com, Boots, Marks and Spencer and John Lewis at £24 for 125ml.
Mushus has launched the skincare routine you drink 🫧
Mushus has launched as the UK's first lightly sparkling skincare drink with vegan collagen, and it's already the kind of brand that knows exactly what it is. Founder Bethany Eaton developed the formula after chemotherapy left her skin inflamed and struggling to recover, building her recovery around vegan collagen, probiotics and tremella mushroom. Each can contains 3g of plant-based vegan collagen (claimed to be up to five times more bioavailable than bovine alternatives), clinically studied probiotic HU58, organic tremella mushroom and hyaluronic acid; no added sugar, no artificial sweeteners, under 20 calories per 100ml. Whether you'd call it hydration, elasticity and glow in a can, or simply "giving glass skin" either way, it's working. Available in Raspberry Fizz and Pineapple Fizz, £20 for a six-pack at mushus.co.uk.
Miranda Priestly is back and she hasn't softened 👠
Twenty years after Runway first terrorised Andy Sachs, The Devil Wears Prada 2 is in cinemas and it turns out the wait was worth it. Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci all return, with Andy back at Runway as features editor after her entire newsroom is axed by text at an awards ceremony. Director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna are back too. The film has already grossed $234 million worldwide since opening 1 May, and critics are calling it a sharp, entertaining sequel with more to say about modern media than anyone expected. Lady Gaga and Doechii contribute an original track called Runway. In cinemas now, and yes, it's worth going.
Forty years of Tracey Emin, all in one place at Tate Modern 🖼️
Tate Modern is currently hosting the largest survey exhibition ever dedicated to Dame Tracey Emin, 40 years of painting, video, textiles, neon, sculpture and installation, including works never previously shown. The exhibition traces her life through her art: from Margate, through personal trauma and surviving cancer, to the expansive paintings that define her practice now. Raw, honest and genuinely moving, this is the kind of exhibition that stays with you long after you've left the building. In partnership with Gucci. Running until 31 August 2026, open daily from 10am with late opening until 9pm on Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets from £20, ages 12–25 pay £5. Book at tate.org.uk.
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is back, gardens, glamour and tickets that never last 🌷
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is the one annual event where it's entirely acceptable to spend as much time thinking about your outfit as the garden design and that's exactly why it works. Running from 19 to 23 May at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, this year's edition brings King Charles, Sir David Beckham and Alan Titchmarsh together for The King's Foundation Curious Garden, which alone tells you everything about the kind of occasion this is. Public tickets from Thursday 21 May, from £107 at rhs.org.uk/chelsea, and they will sell out.
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