We’ve all felt it. The embarrassment caused when encountering someone wearing the exact same clothes as you. The Chinese even have a slang term for it – zhuàng shān (which translates as “bump shirt”). A message, if not a shirt, worth bumping, then, is that among the covetable items available at MR PORTER are pieces you won’t find anywhere else. Not at another online retailer, certainly. We work closely with the brands we stock to drill down into what the customer – dear reader, we mean you – really wants. So closely, in fact, that many of our favourite designers sometimes come to us with products that are just for us. Or, rather, again, you.

A suit is a fine thing, but a matching one can sometimes feel a tad too predictable. Enter spezzato, the Italian art of splitting a suit into separate pieces and wearing them apart. The word loosely translates as “broken”, though there is nothing damaged about the result. This logic is a natural fit for Neapolitan tailoring, where soft, unstructured jackets already hold their own. However, it works with sharper tailoring, too. The difference between doing it right and looking like you’ve lost half the suit comes down to three adjustments, below.

There was a time when wearing a technical shell jacket with tailored trousers suggested one of two things: you’d either been caught in unexpectedly bad weather on your way to the office or you were on your way somewhere to do something practical. But today, that is no longer the case. Performance clothing has spent the past decade muscling its way into everyday wardrobes. GORE-TEX jackets are quotidian, trail shoes double up as fashion shoes and climbing bags spend more time in coffee shops than they do up a mountain.

New York has got a reputation. Fast paced and direct to the point of brusque. It is known for its hard edges. And against this colourful – in all senses of the word – setting, Mr P.’s new AW26 collection can’t help but stand out. “It has gotten softer this season,” says Emily Grieves, Design Manager at Mr P. “That was a key part of it – the dropped shoulders and softer fabrics.”

We’ve all felt it. The embarrassment caused when encountering someone wearing the exact same clothes as you. The Chinese even have a slang term for it – zhuàng shān (which translates as “bump shirt”). A message, if not a shirt, worth bumping, then, is that among the covetable items available at MR PORTER are pieces you won’t find anywhere else. Not at another online retailer, certainly. We work closely with the brands we stock to drill down into what the customer – dear reader, we mean you – really wants. So closely, in fact, that many of our favourite designers sometimes come to us with products that are just for us. Or, rather, again, you.

A suit is a fine thing, but a matching one can sometimes feel a tad too predictable. Enter spezzato, the Italian art of splitting a suit into separate pieces and wearing them apart. The word loosely translates as “broken”, though there is nothing damaged about the result. This logic is a natural fit for Neapolitan tailoring, where soft, unstructured jackets already hold their own. However, it works with sharper tailoring, too. The difference between doing it right and looking like you’ve lost half the suit comes down to three adjustments, below.