Alexa Chung has designed a brand new collection for Barbour, just in time for Christmas. It may be the SS20 collection but these jackets will be perfect for the rainy winter weather right now.
Remember when dressing for a festival meant wearing your oldest clothes, rolling around in the mud and never worrying that somebody might film your not-exactly-sober antics for Instagram Stories? No, me neither. For it feels like a century since and made the muddy fields of Glastonbury their catwalk. Until that point Hunter wellies and Barbour jackets were synonymous with stuffy country dressing. Suddenly, they became fervently coveted by those who hadn't so much as seen a cow before.
It makes sense, then, that Alexa Chung would team up with Barbour to put her own spin on the classic wax jacket – an item she made infinitely cooler just by wearing it at Glastonbury and the like in the mid-noughties. And that's exactly what she has done. Well, the collaboration is actually between, but that's essentially the same thing. And after the success of the first collection that arrived in June this year, the first ever spring/summer collection is here.
As with the first two offerings that launched earlier this year, for the SS20 range different Barbour designs from the archives have been reimagined and given that inimitable Alexa Chung magic. In a statement, Chung said: "Some of my happiest memories have unfolded in a Barbour. The smell of the wax alone makes me feel like I’m home. For me Barbour has been part of my childhood, my coming of age and I am extraordinarily proud that it is now part of my future.
There are cropped versions of the classic Barbour wax jackets, as well as an amazing monochrome jacket that has more than a whiff of the 80s about it. Lightweight quilted jackets and gilets will be ideal on their own come spring but will add extra warmth when layered with your favourite knitwear and overcoats right now. There's even some pretty shirts and a cropped vinyl jacket.
Call it fate, call it destiny – whatever you call it, it seems like perfect timing that Chung's latest Barbour jackets would drop just in time for us to add to our Christmas lists. It's almost like she planned it...
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