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Jerkins are back in literary style thanks to new Hamnet film

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January 11, 2026

"The fashion wears out more apparel than the man," declared Conrad in Much Ado About Nothing, noting that dress trends are flightier than the natures of the people who wear them.

- Phoebe Davis

Its author William Shakespeare might particularly appreciate the latest fashion fad: dressing like a poet.

As Hamnet, Chloé Zhao's film about the death of Shakespeare's son, opens in cinemas this weekend, Paul Mescal, sporting an on-trend weathered leather jerkin is set to become the style muse of the moment, growing the trend referred to on the internet as "poetcore".

In the same week Jonathan Anderson, the chief designer at Dior, has opened a popup in Selfridges in London selling clothes inspired by Bram Stoker's Dracula and Charles Baudelaire, the French poet, famous for his

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