Drum roll, please. Napoleon-style military jackets have marched back into fashion.
You’ll probably remember Jimi Hendrix wearing his 19th-century-style Hussar jacket, bare-chested, in the late 60s, with the historic regalia becoming part of his trademark rock’n’roll look.
But by the noughties this ornate outerwear had dropped its edgy connotations, becoming the uniform of pop stars: Alicia Keys and Melanie C wore theirs on the red carpet. In 2010, Cheryl Cole famously performed her hit single Fight For This Love on The X Factor in a monochrome version by the Welsh designer Julien Macdonald.
Fast-forward to 2026 and stars have
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