FROW News #115: Tolami’s River Island Debut, Marc Jacobs Beauty Is Back & Rubís Just Landed at Harrods 👠💄✂️
Marc Jacobs Beauty is officially back after five years of radio silence. Tolami Benson has her own River Island collection. The Ferrari of tweezers has arrived at Harrods. And somewhere between a Copenhagen jelly shoe collab, Cardi B curating a Hermès edit and K-beauty turning up at EL&N with a free SPF, the week quietly handed us a lot to work with. Here’s everything worth your attention.
Tolami Benson has her own River Island collection, and it’s very much worth your attention 🤍
Not a bad week to be Tolami Benson. Her debut River Island collab lands today, and her fiancé Bukayo Saka’s club just ended a 22-year wait for the Premier League title. The Nigerian-British style figure has been building a proper fashion presence in her own right for a while now: L’Oréal Paris ambassador, BFAs regular, and someone who has always had a clear and confident point of view on how clothes should look and feel. The collection is built around the tension between masculine silhouettes and soft, feminine details. Tailored shorts, oversized ribbed shirts, considered layering that feels lived-in rather than put-together. This week belongs to her. Shop at riverisland.com.
GANNI x Melissa is the jelly shoe collab that makes the summer edit write itself 👡
If there is one brand that can make a jelly shoe feel genuinely covetable in 2026, it’s GANNI, and this collaboration with Melissa proves exactly that. The Flip Flop at £95 and the Thong Kitten Heel at £130 come in bold primaries and a leopard print iteration that is going to be photographed relentlessly between now and September. Every piece is vegan, designed to slot straight into the GANNI High Summer wardrobe, and the energy is exactly right for the season. Available at ganni.com.
Image Credits: GANNI
Avavav does adidas again, and somehow it keeps getting better 🖤👟
The female-founded Stockholm label that built its reputation on making fashion take itself slightly less seriously is back with adidas for SS26, dropping tomorrow. Sculptural sportswear, cropped track sets, hooded mini dresses, a shoulderless hoodie, the Megaride sneaker, the Deconstructed Superstar, the Shaved Pony Superstar and an oversized leather sports bag that is the largest version the collaboration has produced yet. Avavav has one of the most singular points of view in contemporary fashion right now, and every season this collaboration makes that clearer. Prices start from £85. Available at CONFIRMED, adidas.com, adidas stores, and select retailers from 22nd May.
Image Credits: adidas
Cardi B is now the face of FASHIONPHILE Collective, and the bag world is paying attention 👜
FASHIONPHILE has been the pre-loved destination for serious bag collectors since 1999, and the brand just got significantly bigger: a recent merger with Luxe Collective means the two now operate as one, bringing ultra-luxury resale and luxury access together under the same roof. Cardi B is the 2026 global brand ambassador, fronting the Get Your Bag campaign with a curated edit on fashionphile.com spanning Hermès, Chanel and Goyard. She is one of the most documented handbag collectors in the world, which makes this feel less like a partnership and more like a natural fit. Previous ambassadors include Martha Stewart, Nicole Richie and Emma Roberts. FASHIONPHILE Collective knows exactly what it’s doing.
Kelly Hoppen just made the case for sleepwear that makes staying in feel like a genuine choice 🛌🏽
The For the Bedroom and Beyond collection lands in M&S stores and online today, and it does exactly what the name promises. Fluid satin pyjamas in calm neutral tones with matching eye masks, plush towelling robes designed to bring the five-star hotel experience home, all built to be worn styled with trainers, layered under tailoring or simply as the most considered version of a night in. Hoppen describes it as coming home, switching off and changing into something that feels incredibly comfortable while still looking effortlessly chic. That’s not marketing copy. That’s just what the collection actually does. Prices start at £55. marksandspencer.com.
Leem is now on John Lewis, and the SS26 collection is worth every click 🛍️
Global contemporary fashion brand Leem has launched its Spring Summer 2026 collection on johnlewis.com, and the timing feels right. The brand has already built a presence at Next, Selfridges and its flagship at Westfield London White City, and John Lewis is the natural next step for a brand that has always been about considered dressing for the modern woman. The SS26 collection draws on 1970s fluidity and 1950s silhouettes, with rich textures, intricate pleating and structured tailoring that moves from day to evening without asking anything of you. Shop at johnlewis.com or at leem.com.
Image Credits: Leem
London is getting its first standalone SKIMS store this summer, and it’s on Regent Street 🏬
SKIMS has confirmed it is taking over the former Ted Baker site on Regent Street for its first standalone UK store, opening this summer. The UK has consistently been one of their strongest markets outside the United States, and a flagship in one of London’s most iconic retail destinations means the full edit, underwear, loungewear, shapewear, and swim will finally have a permanent home here. The Harrods and Selfridges concessions have been doing the work until now. This is a different proposition entirely.
Dua Lipa’s skincare brand just had its first ever pop-up, and she chose London first 💙🧡
DUA, the high-performance skincare brand created by Dua Lipa in partnership with Augustinus Bader Science, is at Selfridges London until 27th May for its first-ever physical pop-up. The brand is built on Augustinus Bader’s pioneering TFC5™ technology, which strengthens the skin’s natural barrier and enhances long-term elasticity, adapted into three simple steps for everyday life: the Balancing Cream Cleanser, Supercharged Glow Complex and Renewal Cream. The pop-up includes daily limited-edition drops, an interactive photobooth and a test and play station to experience the full collection. Dua chose London for the debut herself, describing Selfridges as the only choice for a hometown first. At Selfridges now until 27 May.
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Marc Jacobs Beauty is back! Five years of waiting is about to feel very worth it 💄
In 2021, Marc Jacobs Beauty went quiet. No announcement, no farewell, just gone. It returns on 28th May on marcjacobs.com, with a Sephora app exclusive on 31st May and a full launch on sephora.com from 1st June. The collection spans seven categories: the Drawn This Way Longwear Eyeliner, Born Star Eyeshadow, Heart On Lipstick, Joystick Blush Stick, Flashes Mascara, Legally Bronze Bronzer and Money Shot Highlighter Gel, all priced from £22 to £35. The packaging was designed by Marc Jacobs himself, with signature charm motifs across each category. A brand with this much cultural equity doesn’t come back quietly. Mark 28th May in the diary now.
Image Credits: Marc Jacobs Beauty
The Ferrari of tweezers has officially landed at Harrods, and it’s worth every penny ✂️
Swiss precision brand Rubís has been the insider secret of the beauty world for decades, with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Bobbi Brown and Katie Jane Hughes all counting themselves fans. The brand originally developed its precision engineering for the Swiss watch industry, the same tools used to assemble movements for Patek Philippe, Cartier and Rolex, before applying that same exacting standard to beauty. Now, a curated edit of the most coveted pieces is available in-store at Harrods. Tweezers start from £33, scissors from £35, nail clippers from £39.95 and the full Manicure Box at £149. The kind of tools you buy once and genuinely keep for years.
Ouai is at King’s Cross this weekend, and the first 50 people through the door leave with a full-size product 💇🏾♀️
The prestige haircare brand is taking over King’s Cross Station on 23 and 24 May to launch the Bond Repair Balm, a three-minute in-shower treatment formulated to strengthen hair bonds and reduce breakage from colour, heat and chemical treatments, with no leave-in time required. The first 50 visitors each day receive a full-size product. The tiers after that still leave with deluxe samples and product bundles. Worth getting there early. The Bond Repair Balm is available at Boots, Selfridges and Cult Beauty.
Anua is at EL&N all bank holiday weekend, and there is a free SPF in it for you ☀️
From 27th to 31st May, Korean skincare brand Anua is partnering with EL&N across four London locations: Wardour Street, Park Lane, Brompton and Westfield White City. The collab spotlights the bestselling Zero-Cast Moisturising Suncream SPF 50 (RRP £18), and does so in the most EL&N way possible: order the exclusive White Chocolate and Mango Iced Matcha for £8.95, and the first 50 customers each day take home a full-size SPF. There is also a pop-up cart outside EL&N Park Lane tomorrow (27th May). The Zero-Cast formula leaves no white cast, sits beautifully under makeup and is already one of the most talked-about SPFs in the K-beauty world this year. Summer skin, sorted.
The V&A just opened one of the most geographically ambitious exhibitions it has ever staged, and it’s free 🎨
Rising Voices is now open at the V&A South Kensington, and the ambition of it is worth pausing on. A collaboration with Queensland Art Gallery, the exhibition brings together 40 contemporary creatives from across Asia, Australia and the Pacific, some of whom are showing their work outside those regions for the very first time. It is the kind of exhibition that doesn’t announce itself but stays with you long after you’ve left. Free entry, open now. No excuse not to go.
New York’s most iconic bakery, Magnolia Bakery has arrived in London, and it is here until 10 June 🍵 🍰
Magnolia Bakery needs very little introduction. The West Village institution that played a supporting role in the cultural moment that was Sex and the City has opened at Café Ciel inside Raffles London at The OWO, and the London menu is genuinely considered. The legendary banana pudding is there, alongside banoffee French toast and a sticky toffee pudding developed specifically for the UK market. Raffles London at The OWO is already one of the most beautiful spaces the city has produced in years, and this pop-up makes it even more worth the visit. Open now until 10 June.
Kathryn Stockett’s first novel in seventeen years is here, and it has been worth every one of them 📚
The Calamity Club is Kathryn Stockett’s first novel since The Help, which sold 15 million copies and became one of those rare books that genuinely changed the conversation. Set in 1933 Mississippi, it follows three women whose lives collide during The Great Depression: an orphan, a woman fighting to save everything her family has, and one running entirely on sheer determination. It has been named a most anticipated read of 2026 by the New York Times, Oprah Daily and Goodreads. The kind of novel that will be in every book club by July. Click here for more.
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