Good girls go to Heaven, bad girls go to Pleasure Island

Plus Polly Pocket clothes, Versace lands in LA and…heeled Converse

Diesel's Pleasure Island
photo: Diesel
Diesel's Pleasure Island
photo: Diesel

Plus Polly Pocket clothes, Versace lands in LA and…heeled Converse

By Sophie Lou Wilson10 Mar 2023
4 mins read time
4 mins read time

And just like that, Paris Fashion Week is over. What now? you may ask. Fear not, for there’s still plenty of feel good fashion news to go around. Last night, Versace invited Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus and Lil Nas X and more to their LA runway show. Meanwhile, closer to home, Marc Jacobs’ Heaven opened its first London store in Soho this morning – we know what our weekend plans look like now. But perhaps you’d rather take a trip to Pleasure Island, the fictional “adult amusement park” location for Diesel’s sex-positive SS23 campaign.

Elsewhere, Loewe keeps on winning, whether with their Polly Pocket-inspired clothes at Paris Fashion Week or the anthurium pieces that have been passed around from Taylor Russel to Emily Ratajkowski to Jenna Ortega. Finally, female-led fashion brand Peachy Den celebrates women in sport via a collaboration with Football Beyond Borders and you can now buy heeled Converse, in case that’s your thing. So, without further ado, here’s all the best feel good fashion news to drop this week.

Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus and Lil Nas X land in LA for the Versace show

This season, Versace left Italy for so-called sunny LA, but when rain was forecast they had to move the show date forward at the last minute. Luckily, all our fave celebs could still make it and this was undoubtedly one of the most star-studded fashion events of all of fashion month. Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus and Lil Nas X were on the FROW while Gigi Hadid opened and closed the show. The clothes were sexy yet understated, inspired by Atelier Versace’s mid-’90s collections and continuing the power dressing agenda set by designers in Paris.

Heaven opens its London store and ushers in the Ashlee Simpson renaissance

If a neon lit, pink carpeted store filled with retro pop culture paraphernalia and Y2K grunge sounds like your idea of heaven, then Soho, London is the place to be this weekend. Marc Jacobs’ Heaven opens the doors to its first ever store in the capital today. The cult brand du jour recently teamed up with Ashlee Simpson for its latest campaign – now that’s a throwback. That’s not to mention a recent collaboration with London label Kiko Kostadinov and a campaign featuring the longest ever couch including Paloma Elsesser, Gabbriette and The White Lotus’s Michael Imperioli.

Welcome to Diesel’s Pleasure Island

Following their red hot AW23 show and that infamous mountain of 200,000 condoms, Diesel’s latest sex-positive campaign for SS23 welcomes you to Pleasure Island. Described as an “adult amusement park where all desires, kinks and indulgences are welcome, while all judgmental attitudes are not”, the raunchy campaign features Diesel-clad partygoers in swimming pools, night clubs and limousines. Where do we book our tickets?

You can buy heeled Converse now

Have you ever wanted a shoe that’s halfway between a Chuck Taylor Converse and a Jeffrey Campbell Lita? Well, now you can get some. The internet might be divided over Converse’s new heeled sneakers, but we think it’s only a matter of time before more people come round to the idea. We are living through the Tumblr renaissance, after all.

Loewe stays winning

Loewe’s SS23 anthurium tops are still winning. Whether on Emily Ratajkowski on the front row at the brand’s AW23 show in Paris or Jenna Ortega on the cover of Elle, celebs and stylists can’t seem to get enough. But, just in case we’re starting to tire of the look, creative director Jonathan Anderson presented an equally irresistible AW23 collection. Our prediction for the next look to hit every fashion editorial? The Polly Pocket-style outfits that tapped into our Y2K childhood nostalgia.

Peachy Den works with Football Beyond Borders

Women’s football is one of the fastest growing sports in the UK so it’s no wonder that it’s the inspiration for Peachy Den’s latest collection. Tops are crafted from scraps of vintage football shirts to increase circularity and reduce waste while a portion of profits will go to Football Beyond Borders, an organisation that helps young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who are into football.