Andy Velvet Jacket, Moss Floral

The Andy is back, and this time it's in moss green: a sumptuous velvet jacket covered in a botanical print of terracotta and coral blooms, trailing leaves and little flashes of cream and ink blue. It has a soft shawl collar, wraps across the body and ties with its own velvet belt, and when you look underneath the belt there's a flash of red. Side pockets, naturally.

Tie it across the waist and knot it to the side and it gives you the most beautiful shape, with a lovely slimming effect at the waist. Or take the belt off and wear it open as an easy layer. It's a very useful jacket: it makes cords and trainers look like you planned it, and it makes a party outfit look even better.

The heritage behind it: Maison de Belle is a female-founded, female-owned brand that describes itself as “London Soul, Indian Craft”, and its story is a lovely one. It was born from a dream that refused to fade. Its founder grew up in Assam, captivated by the artistry of Indian textiles: the patience of the craftsman's hand, the rhythm of wooden blocks meeting cloth, and the quiet magic of patterns passed down through generations. Fashion called to her early, but it wasn't a path she was allowed to follow. So she tucked the dream away, carried it with her when she moved to the UK in her twenties, and years later finally answered it.

The craft: every piece is made using traditional hand block printing, with hand-carved wooden blocks, natural dyes and methods refined over generations. Maison de Belle works with small, family-run workshops whose artisans inherited the craft from their parents and grandparents. These aren't factories. They're homes, courtyards and small studios where printing is both livelihood and legacy. Many of these families are struggling to keep their art alive, because fast fashion doesn't need them. Maison de Belle does, and by working with them it's helping to preserve a craft at risk of disappearing, with fair wages for the makers and ethically sourced fabrics.

Small by design: the fabrics are deadstock, high-quality cloth that would otherwise end up in landfill, so only a few pieces of each design are ever made. When it sells out, it's gone. And because every block is pressed by hand, no two prints are ever perfectly identical. That's not a flaw. It's the signature of something made by people, not machines.