She doesn’t do autumn trends. She wears suede before everyone else does, somehow makes an oversized shirt look impossibly chic, and knows that the difference between looking polished and looking too polished is usually one slightly unexpected piece.
Her wardrobe is a study in contrasts: soft cashmere with worn denim, a beautiful necklace with a faded T-shirt, masculine tailoring with impossibly delicate shoes. She likes things with a point of view. Nothing too obvious. Nothing that screams I bought this because it was trending.
For her, these are the gifts worth knowing about.
The Suede Boot That Changes Everything
Nomasei Aria Suede Ankle Boots
There is something particularly compelling about a brown suede boot in autumn. But the Aria isn’t your standard Chelsea boot. With its sculpted heel and close-fitting silhouette, it has the elegance of a ballet shoe with considerably more attitude.
Wear it with jeans and a white T-shirt, a long skirt, or an evening dress when the temperature drops. It is the kind of shoe that quietly pulls an entire wardrobe together.
The gift for: the woman whose idea of dressing up is making something unexpected look effortless.
The Trouser Everyone Will Ask About
We The Free Spotlight Vegan Suede Trousers
Autumn is when trousers get interesting. These chocolate-brown suede trousers bring texture without feeling overly precious, while the relaxed, barrel-inspired shape gives them that slightly undone silhouette the cool girls seem to have perfected.
Pair them with a fitted knit and delicate jewellery, or go full contrast with an oversized shirt and pointed shoes.
The trick is not to over-style them. Let the suede do the talking.
The gift for: the woman who has enough black trousers and absolutely does not need another pair.
The Perfectly Imperfect Shirt
Navygrey The Easy
Every cool wardrobe needs that shirt: oversized, beautifully cut and slightly masculine, but somehow incredibly chic.
Navygrey’s The Easy has the feel of something she might have stolen from an exceptionally well-dressed boyfriend, except considerably better made. Throw it over denim, tuck it into trousers, or leave it open over a vest on those days when autumn hasn’t quite decided what temperature it wants to be.
This is a gift that will become part of her uniform.
The gift for: the minimalist who knows that simplicity is rarely simple.
The Plaid That Doesn’t Feel Preppy
R13 Boyfriend Shirt in Brown & Dark Grey Plaid
Plaid for autumn is hardly revolutionary. R13’s version, however, takes the idea somewhere much cooler.
Oversized, grungy and deliberately undone, this is the shirt to wear with leather trousers, bare legs, vintage denim or absolutely nothing that looks remotely coordinated.
It has just enough rock ’n’ roll energy to stop a beautiful wardrobe from becoming too polished.
The gift for: the woman whose Pinterest board probably contains equal parts Kate Moss, old rock photographs and impossibly good interiors.
The Dress With a Little Mystery
Leoni Studio Floyd Draped Waist Dress
Not every autumn dress needs to be floral, knit or covered in checks.
The Floyd takes a softer, more sensual approach, with draping that gives the silhouette movement rather than structure. It feels particularly right for evenings when the weather is cool but you aren’t quite ready to surrender to a coat.
Add boots, minimal jewellery and a slightly undone bag. Nothing else required.
The gift for: the woman who prefers being intriguing to being obviously dressed up.
The Jewellery That Looks Like You Found It
Completedworks Pearl & Black Onyx Recycled Silver Earrings
These are not your grandmother’s pearls.
Completedworks has a knack for taking something familiar and making it feel slightly strange, artistic and completely modern. The combination of luminous pearl, black onyx and recycled silver gives these earrings the feeling of jewellery discovered in a brilliant little vintage shop rather than selected from a conventional jewellery counter.
Which, for the autumn cool girl, is exactly the point.
The gift for: the maximalist who still somehow manages to look understated.
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The Berry-Coloured Cashmere
Lisa Yang Amabel Sweater in Berry
There is a particular shade of deep berry that only really makes sense once autumn arrives.
The Amabel is the kind of sweater that makes everyday dressing feel luxurious without looking like you’re trying to be luxurious. Soft cashmere, rich colour and an easy silhouette make it perfect with faded jeans, tailored trousers or thrown over a silk skirt.
Think expensive without announcing the expense.
The gift for: the woman who believes a great knit can solve most wardrobe problems.
The Jewellery She’ll Never See Coming
Jessica McCormack Medallions Long Guard Lapis & Diamond Necklace
For the truly impossible-to-buy-for woman, forget the predictable diamond necklace.
This piece has something much more distinctive about it: deep blue lapis, diamonds and a long, almost heirloom-like silhouette that feels both bohemian and extraordinarily luxurious.
It is jewellery with a story built into it. The kind of piece that looks even better with a faded cashmere sweater than with an evening dress.
The gift for: the woman who would rather own one extraordinary piece than ten predictable ones.
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The Ballet Flat, Reconsidered
Aeyde Tiby in Dusty Purple Suede
Ballet flats have had their fashion moment, but the interesting ones have never really gone anywhere.
The Tiby takes the familiar silhouette and gives it a beautifully unexpected dusty-purple suede finish. It is subtle enough to become a wardrobe staple, but unusual enough to make someone look twice.
Wear with cropped trousers, socks and denim, or let a little purple peek out beneath a long skirt.
The gift for: the woman who treats her shoes as punctuation.
The Leather Jacket She’ll Still Be Wearing in Ten Years
Nour Hammour Dumas Noir Classique
Every autumn wardrobe has a leather-jacket-shaped hole in it.
The Dumas fills it without feeling like another generic biker jacket. Sleek, timeless and slightly architectural, it is the piece that makes everything else feel cooler: jeans become intentional, dresses become less precious, and cashmere suddenly has an edge.
Buy it once. Wear it constantly.
The gift for: the woman who has perfected the art of looking like she didn’t think about what she was wearing.
The Unwrapd Edit
The secret to gifting the autumn cool girl is not to buy her something fashionable.
Buy her something with character.
Something slightly unexpected. Something she’ll wear differently from everyone else. Something that becomes part of her personal uniform rather than disappearing into the wardrobe.
Because the best gifts don’t just say I know what you like.
They say I know your taste.
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Your taste shouldn’t just tell people what you want. It should tell them who you are.
Curate the things you’re obsessed with, the things you’re saving, the things you can’t stop thinking about, and let people discover your taste for themselves.
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