Faff-free party dresses and duvet coats: the autumn trends that double as life hacks

Whether you want to get promoted, have more time in bed or simply look stylish in your usual pair of jeans, here are eight style tips to power you into next season

It is is late August, which can only mean one thing: we now declare the new fashion season open. Here’s how to use the upcoming trends to help you achieve your best autumn ever.

If you want to get promoted … wear red

Why: It is the colour of ambition

Buy: A pair of red boots

There’s lots of talk this season about the appeal of tonal dressing – ie wearing the same shade head-to-toe. The Kardashians have been on this for ages, but the catwalk moved it on by spinning the colour wheel to red, AKA the no-brainer 80s-worthy symbol for power. It’s indisputably the colour of the season and the death knell for the ubiquitous millennial pink. A pair of red boots puts a pleasing full stop on any office look on a day when you haven’t got the bandwidth for Dulux-style colour matching.

If you want to have 10 minutes extra in bed every morning … wear a long-sleeved dress

Why: One-stop dressing that is pure AW17

Buy: A floral dress with sleeves

Seen everywhere from Erdem to Michael Kors and Dries Van Noten, the long-sleeved floral dress is not only pretty, but it is also joyous, because it is so useful. The satisfying life hack of a dress versus separates – no rummaging for the right T-shirt to go with the tweed skirt – plus the statement of the floral print means you have a look without thinking about it. This is win-win dressing at its best. Invest immediately.

If you want to demonstrate your cultural prowess … wear the Americana trend

Why: Calvin Klein’s subversive twist on making America great again channels Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol

Buy: An indigo denim jacket to wear with jeans

To get a take on the US now, with intellectual weight, Raf Simons – a Belgian who references rave and collaborates with artists including Sterling Ruby – is a good shout. His debut for Calvin Klein was all cowboy boots and denim with one model wearing an American flag as a skirt. His ad campaigns, meanwhile, feature models on a deserted highway, with – keep up – a Calvin Klein billboard in the background showing other models looking at Andy Warhol’s Elvis. If that sounds meta and knowing, so is your conscious choice to wear an indigo denim jacket and jeans, as seen in Simons’ collection.

If you want to take your hangover look outside … wear a duvet coat

Why: Eiderdowns were a thing on the catwalk at Preen and Mulberry

Buy: A longline padded jacket

You know those Sundays when you don’t leave the house until 5pm for a trip to the local shop to procure Hula Hoops? They are totally fashionable this season. Mulberry brought duvet days on to the catwalk with a selection of eiderdown jackets worthy of the Queen tucking into a box set at Balmoral. A longline padded jacket is the norm’s version – and handily doubles as a blanket when you get back from the shop.

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