London Fashion Week street style turns practical—and more interesting for it

Coat engineering, walkable shoes and colour blocked against grey skies.

Priya Nair
Bold textile colour blocks
Editorial illustration · Book Leaves

Outside the tents this season, street style looked less like costume and more like weatherproof confidence: sculptural coats, scuffed trainers and bags that actually held a laptop.

Designers leaned into British outerwear heritage while younger labels played with recycled nylon and repairable hardware. The most photographed looks still worked on the Tube.

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