Despite recognising that Burberry is a brand firmly integrated in the public psyche, Colman says her perception of those classic trenches and anoraks – incidentally one of the key pieces of next season – changed when Daniel Lee took the helm in 2022. “I feel now that there’s much more of it that I want to wear, there’s much more of it that I understand,” she explains. “It still feels expensive and glamorous, but much more approachable – there’s stuff I want to wear everyday.”
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Get Olivia talking about the wide-leg trousers and “amazing zippy heels” she wore to the spring/summer 2025 show and she’ll wax lyrical about “the mixing of sort of street and heels and big bags” for aeons. “It’s kind of got everything, it’s got something for however you’re feeling which I love,” she adds of the label she feels right at home in during her time in both town and country.
On the new classic-with-a-twist outerwear edit, which honours Burberry’s commitment to dressing long-suffering Brits for the elements, her friend Daniel says the Alasdair McLellan-lensed pictures were designed to promote the “protective and enduring” house silhouettes – two words one could perhaps use to describe Colman herself. A delicious casting moment indeed. And for the record, that plush moss-green cover-up is best worn while watching sheep jump – unfathomably high.