I have never seen Sienna Miller browsing the vintage stalls on Portobello Road, something she, like Kate Moss and Alexa Chung, and just about every other Noughties socialite, has likened to a meditative act. It was the crucible for her latest collaboration with Marks & Spencer, a 35-piece edit built from her own archive of second-hand discoveries, parts of which might also emerge in Chloé’s upcoming autumn/winter 2025 collection. “I’m going to send a picture to Chemena,” she said of a second-hand bloomer she had not long ago stumbled upon. “Because they belonged on that runway!”
But, then again, I might well have seen Sienna Miller browsing the vintage stalls on Portobello Road. The actor was yesterday afternoon photographed strolling around west London, dressed in a droopy mohair sweater from Denebola and BDG jeans with some anti-trend Hoff sneakers and an Adidas bucket hat that almost (almost) managed to render her anonymous. The “queen of boho chic” now seems to be modelling herself on the precise image of a GCSE student bored of Christmastime. The caption could have read: “I’d rather be enduring wet wipe showers at Reading Festival”.
She deserves to lean into the “Urban Outfitters” of it all. Miller is among the most successful dressers of 2024, an unofficial representative of Chemena Kamali’s Chloé in ruffled maxi dresses, languid flares, enormous wooden wedges and bracelet bags. Even beyond that relationship, she has demonstrated true guile in her engagement with fashion. (See: the Marlene Dietrich-indebted pantsuit she last week wore to deliver a reading at St George’s Chapel.) “It’s very much about an intuitive way of dressing,” Kamali herself said of the girls inspiring her work. “There’s this longing for undone-ness and freedom and softness and movement.” Sometimes that means browsing the rails at Urban Outfitters.
