I rarely go through fashion fixations, but when I do, they hit hard. With the winter 2025 trends, I've become obsessed with getting my hands on—or, rather, in—a pair of leather gloves. They're the cold-weather accessories of Old Hollywood starlets and '60s-era Swans, and while I'm neither, their divadom is what I hope to emulate this season. Who What Wear's Jasmine Fox-Suliaman tells me, "When I wear my pair, I feel like I should be married to a billionaire,"—and that's the exact vibe I'm after.
Upper-echelon attitudes aside, leather winter gloves are also easy, elegant additions to a winter outfit. Marie Claire's very own editor-in-chief Nikki Ogunnaike writes in her Self-Checkout newsletter that leather gloves are low-lift outfit finishers that are "a little more glam; a little more…extra." Look to Altuzarra's Fall 2024 show, where luscious opera-length lambskin gloves added a girl-on-the-go nonchalance to sequins and cable-knit sweaters.
