6 Elegant Trends Marks & Spencer Is Getting So Right for Spring

The high street has done an excellent job of honing how it approaches trends over the past few years, further aligning to the new shopping desires of its customers. I remember when I used to frequent Topshop’s Oxford Street flagship every Saturday morning when in my early twenties in search for something statement and “fashion” to wear for whatever plans I had that evening. Thankfully, any sort of frivolous shopping is out of my system. Now, when I do shop on the high street (which is more than you might think for a fashion editor—we don’t all walk around wearing top-to-toe Prada, as nice as that might be), I do so with the same exacting consideration I would put upon a designer purchase. Instead of anything that feels very “now”, I like my trends to have a timeless quality too. As in, they might be a thing right now, but they won’t look out of place when I continue to call upon them years down the line. This is probably why I find myself perusing Marks & Spencer so frequently.

While the affordable brand does tap into the latest trends, it does so with a wearable nuance that’s just so M&S. There’s a refinement to its colour palette and silhouettes that gives Marks & Spencer pieces more longterm appeal. Distilled down in a way that actually comes in useful with your wardrobe, working in harmony with your existing wares as opposed to standing out against them, you can usually trust M&S to approach the trends with the same mindset so many of us now do—with trepidation. This, however, doesn’t mean the items on offer are boring—far from it.