Popular coat’s appearance on cover of Lily Allen’s West End Girl album underlines how ubiquitous style has become
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f West End Girl, Lily Allen’s first album for seven years, which details the breakdown of her relationship has occupied the minds of music critics and marriage counsellors, fashion watchers have spotted something different.
The puffer jacket Allen is wearing on the cover is not just a pop of colour in what may become an iconic album cover, it is also a sign of the times – underlining just how ubiquitous this jacket shape has become as winter arrives each year.
Uniqlo says a £109 puffer jacket is a bestseller, and the streetwear brand Palace has released a puffer beanie. Puffer jackets can also be found in K Pop Demon Hunters – where dancer Mira wears a puffer homage to André Leon Talley’s famous “sleeping bag” coat to the Met Gala – and on Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in an advert for Moncler.
