“Micro” is a prefix put in front of anything these days, from micro pigs to micro fringes (the mullet of the digital age) and micro retirement – essentially a chronically-online way of saying, “I need a holiday”.

This season, though, the micro machine has delivered an unexpectedly sophisticated fashion creation (lest we forget, previous “micro” trends have included micro bikinis, micro bags and micro shorts , of Paul Mescal fame) that has shot to the top of our autumn/winter 2025 wish-lists. World: meet the micro trench .

The Row resort 2026.

The Row resort 2026.

It was Vogue ’s senior contributing fashion features editor, Julia Hobbs, who first alerted me to the specifics of this shrunken trend. “I’ve been thinking about that little micro trench The Row lately – the Resort 2

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