FROW News #120: Tennis Whites, Beyoncé's Best Advert & The Sandwich That Ate the Internet 🎾💇🏽♀️🍓
It's been the hottest June on record, with three consecutive days of broken temperature highs and not much relief in sight until next week. Whatever you're doing to cope, here's what's actually worth your attention while you do it, tennis whites worth knowing about before Wimbledon starts, Beyoncé giving her own haircare brand the best advert money can't buy, and the sandwich that broke the internet making its comeback with a friend.
Wimbledon starts Monday, and its first-ever Strawberry Capsule is already worth knowing about 🍓
Wimbledon’s debut Strawberry Capsule leans fully into the tournament’s most iconic fruit, a performance polo, wrap skort and strawberry-scattered crew socks among the pieces. Last year’s Collegiate Cap sold out in four days, so with The Championships kicking off Monday, don’t expect this one to hang around either. Prices from £8, available now via the Wimbledon shop.
Twenty-five years on, McQueen is finally coming home 🏠
Alexander McQueen, returns to London Fashion Week this September, its first show on home soil since decamping to Paris in 2001. Creative director Seán McGirr will present the house in London for the first time, a brand built on this city long before Paris came calling. Showing 20th September, womenswear and menswear both on the SS27 schedule.
Hailey Bieber is the new face of SKIMS’ prettiest shade yet 🤍
SKIMS has added Peony, a limited-edition soft pink, to Everyday Cotton, with Hailey Bieber fronting the campaign in the Triangle Bralette and Hipster. Kim Kardashian called her approach to basics “effortless.” One scroll through the campaign makes the case better than any caption could. Triangle Bralette is £36, Hipster £22, both at SKIMS.com, while Peony lasts.
Central Saint Martins helped Uniqlo turn its returns into one-of-one pieces 🧵
Uniqlo has launched Everyday Re.Imagined, ten upcycled pieces made entirely from returned and damaged garments, reworked using designs from Central Saint Martins fashion graduates. No two starting garments were identical, so what you’re buying is genuinely one-off, not another rack of the same thing. From £29.90, available now at Regent Street, Oxford Street, Covent Garden, Coal Drops Yard and Edinburgh’s Princes Street.
An Australian coastal artist made River Island’s swimwear look hand-painted, because it is 🌺
River Island has teamed up with Ocean Grove-based artist Morgan Jamieson on a 17-piece summer collection built around her nature-inspired floral illustrations, swimsuits, totes and statement tops that look painted, not printed. The Pink Floral Trim Swimsuit (£49) and Green Sequin Shoulder Bag (£59) alone do the job of an entire holiday wardrobe. Prices from £22, available at riverisland.com.
H&M’s Court Line capsule has tennis season dressed before Wimbledon even starts 🎾
H&M MOVE and H&M Beauty have teamed up on Court Line, a tennis capsule landing today: a bra tank, lined split skirt and tennis-ball-capped Eau de Toilette among the highlights. It understands tennis season is as much about the aesthetic as the sport itself, picot-edged whites, a logo visor, and a lip balm hidden inside a tennis ball bag charm doing most of the work. Exclusively at hm.com.
CÉCRED’s Styling Collection has landed, and Beyoncé gave it the best advert money can’t buy 💇🏽♀️
CÉCRED's new Styling Collection is officially in the UK, five products built for heat styling without the damage trade-off. The timing could not be better, Beyoncé released a YouTube video of Jay-Z combing out eight years of locs, and it went straight to the top of everyone's feed. Thermal Shield Mist is £29, Heat Activated Silk Glaze £33, Strong Hold Gel £31, plus the Wrap & Set Foam and Edge Brush. cecred.com.
CHANEL’s new gloss comes with its own pop-up outside Selfridges 💋
CHANEL has launched Rouge Coco Hydra Gloss, with camellia ceramides and a peptide complex working underneath that signature mirror shine, 24 hours of hydration included across eighteen shades, from citrine yellow to metallic fuchsia. To mark it, CHANEL has set up a kiosk outside Selfridges' Duke Street entrance until Monday 29th June, free to visit, where you can find your shade match, pick up the first issue of COCO, CHANEL's new beauty magazine with eight different covers, and enjoy gloss-inspired refreshments to a summer soundtrack. £39, wear solo or layered over a Rouge Coco lipstick.
Self Glow's Milky Tan Toner is the UK's first, and it's doing the most with the least ☀️
Golden Days is the first milky tan toner of its kind, swapping the usual tan-then-moisturise routine for one step, K-beauty staples like Centella and liquorice root working on redness and hydration while colour builds gradually underneath. A body version called Sun Drenched Tan Toner lands on 1st July, a cacao-tinted mousse built to fade in evenly rather than patch up afterwards. Both £39, Golden Days at jamesreadglow.com and SpaceNK, Sun Drenched Tan Mousse is exclusively available in SpaceNK on 12th July.
DAISE is letting you bedazzle your own body mist, and Boots has the kit first 💎
DAISE's new Customisation Kits tap into the glue-gun-and-gems trend taking over everyone's feed, a full-size fragrance body mist paired with a mirror keychain and diamanté gems to decorate however you like. HELLO (Raspberry & Mint) lands at Boots from 5th July, with XOXO (Rose & Amber) following at Superdrug from 20th July. £10 each, the kind of impulse buy that turns a five-minute scroll into an actual afternoon activity.
Benefit’s Mystery Box is back, and not knowing is still the entire point 🎁
Benefit’s cult mystery box has returned: £50 for a surprise edit of full-size bestsellers worth over £107, the kind of maths that turns “no clues” into a feature, not a frustration. Expect the brand’s usual hits in there somewhere, brows, mascara, the cult POREfessional primer, though nobody’s saying which ones land in your box. Available now at benefitcosmetics.com while stock lasts.
Queenie is back, ten years on, and life still isn't going to plan 📖
Candice Carty-Williams returns to her breakout heroine in Queenie Is Working On It, picking up nearly a decade on with Queenie now thirty-three and editorial director at The Good Sis, a media network built around amplifying Black women's voices. Life ought to be sorted by now, but it isn't. Carty-Williams herself has teased humour, heartbreak and curveballs ahead. She's taking the book on tour too, with a Birmingham stop at Waterstones on 7th July alongside dates in Liverpool, Brighton, Nottingham and London. £20, out 2nd July, pre-order now.
M&S brought back the sandwich that broke the internet last summer, and added a friend 🍓
M&S’s Red Diamond Strawberry & Creme Sandwich is back in Foodhalls, the one that racked up over a million views and sold out nationwide within days last year, now joined by a new Chocolate, Strawberry & Pistachio Creme version. Red Diamond is £2.80, the chocolate one’s £3.50, and if last year’s frenzy repeats, neither will last.
Dawn O’Porter’s new memoir proves the kitchen table holds more than dinner 🍽️
Hungry Eyes traces O’Porter’s life through the meals that shaped it: grief, raising two kids while writing bestselling fiction, the odd bag of Wotsits for dinner, all served with her usual wit rather than misery-memoir overtones. It’s less “here’s what I ate,” more “here’s what food meant when nothing else felt certain.” £16.99, out now in hardback.
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