Alexa Chung almost won star baker on the Great Comic Relief Bake Off with her salted caramel brownies last night. Whatever. We’re more fussed about her Marni-esque apron-and-shirt chic

M uch like Jesus with the water and the wine, Alexa Chung wearing a beige apron with a navy shirt – a little bit Marni, a little bit Jil Sander – on The Great Comic Relief Bake Off last night sounds blah, but will no doubt see the pinny evolve into a festival staple this summer. So do hold your breath and work out how to wear yours.

Whistles has a black apron dress in store now, though its link to an actual apron is a little tenuous. Theory’s navy suede version is a little more on the money, what with its cross straps and pinched waist, although it’s a little impractical if you planned on working with flour while wearing it. On Fendi’s AW15 catwalk, it was less baker and more butcher as models paraded in leather A-line apron mini skirts with leather apron tops, all toy buttons and bizarre furry boots: a decidedly weightier and wipe-down version. Kenzo and Made in Humanity offered versions in denim, the former with buttons, which wouldn’t look out of place on the Alexa for AG line.

In menswear, meanwhile, Shaun Samson made no bones about his inspiration, with waist wraparound aprons, the sort of thing a waiter wears, along with the full-size version in black emblazoned in white with non sequiturs including “Delusional Radical Bliss”. Which sort of sums up the whole vibe really.

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