Most wanted: the items setting the fashion world alight this season – in pictures

Every season a handful of accessories mysteriously achieve cult status among the fashion pack. This time it’s the turn of the Chanel rocket bag, Dior’s box clutch and Saint Laurent’s now cult crystal boots

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  • Chanel rocket bag

    Blast off! Chanel’s A/W show was a Lagerfeld-designed mission to infinity and beyond. There was an actual rocket, that actually seemed to blast off, sending fash-ta-gram into a frenzy. The collection featured this bag – a version of the emoji rocket, that you can put your stuff in. Rocket bag, chanel.com
    Chanel rocket bag Blast off! Chanel’s A/W show was a Lagerfeld-designed mission to infinity and beyond. There was an actual rocket, that actually seemed to blast off, sending fash-ta-gram into a frenzy. The collection featured this bag – a version of the emoji rocket, that you can put your stuff in. Rocket bag, by Chanel (chanel.com)

  • Emporio Armani sunglasses

    Newsflash – Wayfarers are now officially beta. The fashion crowd has moved on to the kind of sunglass shape that would be more at home in The Matrix than in, say, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. A bit Neo, a bit Tour de France, these wraparounds are from the future and we’re into it. Sunglasses, by Emporio Armani armani.com
    Emporio Armani sunglasses Newsflash – Wayfarers are now officially beta. The fashion crowd has moved on to the kind of sunglass shape that would be more at home in The Matrix than in, say, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. A bit Neo, a bit Tour de France, these wraparounds are from the future and we’re into it. Sunglasses, by Emporio Armani (armani.com)

  • Saint Laurent boot

    Rihanna was the envy of the internet – again – when she wore these crystal Saint Laurent boots just days after the show in March. This season they are making their way out into the real world, in all their sparkly, ruched, cone-heeled glory. Boots, by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello ysl.com
    Saint Laurent boot Rihanna was the envy of the internet – again – when she wore these crystal Saint Laurent boots just days after the shows in March. This season they are making their way out into the real world, in all their sparkly, ruched, cone-heeled glory.Boots, by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello (ysl.com)

  • Céline pendant

    Céline’s jewellery game has been raised recently, with the dinosaur earrings the prize of the front row. Make them extinct with this necklace – a fern-style design in crystal and pearls. Worn long on a black poloneck, it will ensure all rivals for sartorial queendom know their place. Necklace, celine.com
    Hero Necklace

  • Dior box bag

    Christian Dior was famously superstitious, with lily of the valley his lucky flower and tarot readers on speed dial. Maria Grazia Chiuri has brought this mysticism to the catwalk, with the star signs that were part of her idea of Dior from the start. They are all over this dream of a bag.Box clutch, by Christian Dior dior.com
    Dior box bag Christian Dior was famously superstitious, with lily of the valley his lucky flower and tarot readers on speed dial. Maria Grazia Chiuri has brought this mysticism to the catwalk, with the star signs that were part of her idea of Dior from the start. They are all over this dream of a bag.Box clutch, by Christian Dior (dior.com)

  • Cartier cactus ring

    The cactus is now a stalwart of an Instagram-approved summer – part of the California sweet life look we have all been seduced by. Cartier is far beyond such fripperies as a selfie, though. Like the plant itself, this pink gold and diamond ring has serious staying power. Ring, cartier.co.uk
    Cartier cactus ring The cactus is now a stalwart of an Instagram-approved summer – part of the California sweet life look we have all been seduced by. Cartier is far beyond such fripperies as a selfie, though. Like the plant itself, this pink gold and diamond ring has serious staying power.Ring, by Cartier (cartier.co.uk)
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