Fashion Trend: Spots Overtake Stripes

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: still wearing stripes? It’s time to join the dots

Once dismissed as frivolous, spots are having the last laugh – popping up on celebs, catwalks and all over the algorithm For years, stripes have been the thinking fashion person’s choice. The style equivalent of remembering to charge your phone overnight. Bracing like sea air, with a top note of French intellectualism. In stripes, you can captain a ship and feast on oysters. Spots and dots are much less serious. From a distance, they could be smiley face emojis. Spots bounce and dance, wherea...

By Jess Cartner-Morley