Wear it low key like the Democratic Party vice-presidential candidate, or dress it up a bit preppy to have some fun

When Miuccia Prada and one of the US vice-presidential candidates both want you to wear the same kind of jacket, you’ve got to think the universe is trying to tell you something, right?

Miuccia Prada has reigned over the fashion world for four decades, because she has a flawless instinct for what looks stylish rather than just trendy. Occasionally, she will put out a collection in which her taste feels a little off-key, and six months later the rest of the world catches up with her and you realise that, no, she wasn’t wrong; she was just ahead of her time. When Mrs P says we should wear barn jackets, as she did at Prada in February, we should probably wear barn jackets.