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November 17, 2025 – Debra McCann
Gift Guide / Crafted Style
Looking to enhance your gifting with slow crafted style this Christmas? Discover products steeped in passion and regional tradition, combining heritage skills with modern design and a slow, small batch approach to production. Explore our range of brands emphasizing sustainability and quality, from seaweed skincare, and playful heritage knitwear to native botanical candles. Uncover these unique gift ideas below and...
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October 13, 2025 – Debra McCann
Mercantile Muse
The 'muse' has long been a way for the fashion world to encapsulate a theme for a collection through the filter of a person, place or memory. Embodying a certain style or outlook, muses serve as a source of inspiration, with their unique style and personality, helping to channel designers creativity into collections. High profile designer/muse pairings such as...
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May 12, 2025 – Debra McCann
Summer Inspiration // Event Dressing
The summer season means the start of outdoor events and get-togethers, and finding the ideal dress style for these type of occasions (whilst factoring in the unpredictable UK weather) can be challenging. Whether you need something for roof top drinks, a tropical beach wedding, picnics in the park or a formal garden party, these styles will take you through casual...
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April 29, 2025 – Debra McCann
Five-A-Day
Almost becoming a classic for the warmer months, fruit motifs continue to crop up on a regular basis within the collections. From cherry symbols, to fruit and veg based colour palettes, fruit inspired designs are adding a fun and fresh twist to summer wardrobes. Fruit motifs have been a popular choice in fashion for a while, but they have seen...
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March 31, 2025 – Debra McCann
Gone To The Beach
Inspired by the expansive skies and wild shoreline of the coast, brands have been inspired by Summer days at the ocean. Immersed in the natural landscape, mood-boards were filled with images of sun-kissed skin, splashing in the shallows, roaming the dunes and collecting samphire for relaxing lunches in the shade with family and friends. When it comes to art...
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February 3, 2025 – Debra McCann
How To Layer Like A Pro
Learn how to beat the cold and layer like a pro with inspiration from the new season collections and Copenhagen fashion week.
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December 23, 2024 – Debra McCann
Useful Sale Pieces You Can Wear Now
With the launch of the Winter Sale, now is the perfect time to review your wardrobe and see where you need to invest. The following styles are ones that we consider reliable building blocks and are perfect for having in your wardrobe. An edit of season appropriate pieces you can rely on is the best way to make things so...
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August 19, 2024 – Mercantile London
New Season // Stella Nova - Tailors Wardrobe
New season collections are beginning to arrive and Danish brand Stella Nova welcomes us to the world of the Tailors Wardrobe in which we get to dress up and embrace the sculptural details, be seduced by the bold splash of color-blocking and get ready for contrasting styling. Black and white are used for a sharp look, but also paired...
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July 29, 2024 – Mercantile London
Mercantile Muse // Dzidzia Wilk
Dzidzia Wilk was born in 1988 in a small town called Mettmann, near Dusseldorf in Germany. Dzidzia’s Polish roots explain her name; Dzidzia means baby in Polish. Now living and working in the East London art scene, Dzidzia finds herself between the cultural influences of Germany and London. Following study at art school, Dzidzia went on to study Art...
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April 30, 2024 – Mercantile London
The Floral Family
Now that the signs of Spring are starting to appear, it feels right to consider a swap to a seasonal scent for yourself. Fragrances with floral scents, such as rose, mimosa or lilac are often considered simple classics, but the ones below come with a range of notes and a fresh twist. Read on to discover some of the florals...
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March 26, 2024 – Mercantile London
A State Of Mind // Louise Mischa
Since it's beginnings in 2012, Louise Mischa has been a story of adventure, friendship and family. Intricacy in detail, fabrication and crafts are signature to this French brand that use travel and comfort as their main inspiration. These are clothes you wear continually but never want to wear out as you'll be lost without them. Through each collection, Louise...
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December 26, 2023 – Mercantile London
Back To Basics
After the excess of the Christmas season, it always seems relevant to return to a back to basics approach, wanting to refresh what we currently have in our wardrobes and questioning the longevity of future purchases. With this in mind (and one eye on warmer days) we have a quick round up of three styles from one of our...
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October 24, 2023 – Mercantile London
New To Store
From a new generation taking the design lead in a Scandinavian jewellery brand, a sustainable candle company celebrating Irish design with twenty years of small batch production, to a family business drawing on their Basque heritage to produce hardwearing rainwear, these are just three of the new brands that have been selected for the Autumn Winter season here at...
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October 2, 2023 – Mercantile London
Autumn/Winter 23 // High Shine
Not just for the party season, metallic was seen juxtaposed with daywear across many of the autumn/winter collections. Whilst silver and gold always dominant in the winter months, fresh eye-catching deep greens and ocean blues also made an appearance. The trend carries over from the usual party dresses into tops, pants and outerwear, so can be easily dressed down...
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September 5, 2023 – Mercantile London
The Local // Damson Madder
London based brand Damson Madder believes that you shouldn't have to choose between your wardrobe and the environment. That’s why they have put sustainability and transparency at the core of everything they do. Their aim is to ensure that every garment they make features as many sustainable attributes as possible. Damson’s aim is to be as open about the...
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August 8, 2023 – Mercantile London
New Season Inspiration // The Royal Tenenbaums
AUTUMN WINTER 2023 Baum Und Pferdgarten Inspired by Wes Anderson’s film The Royal Tenenbaums, the Baum Und Pferdgarten Autumn Winter 2023 collection explores the iconic style of each character. The film has delivered styling inspiration that is now timeless, such as Margot Tenenbaum’s mink colour coat and tennis dress combination, Chas Tenenbaum’s red tracksuit and Richie Tenenbaum’s tennis-wear-made-formal look....
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March 21, 2023 – Mercantile London
New To Store // Beaumont Organics
Launched in 2008, Beaumont Organic is a premium, sustainable fashion brand and creates contemporary, conscious clothing. Featuring GOTS certified organic cotton, alongside other sustainable and eco-fabrics such as linen, lyocell, tencel and non-mulesed wool the pieces are sustainably produced and ethically made in Europe. Beaumont Organic Unity-May Paprika Jumpsuit The company works hard behind the scenes to provide full transparency...
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January 24, 2023 – Mercantile London
Get Inspired // Small & Thoughtful Ideas For Valentines
Let your feelings of appreciation show with a small yet thoughtful gesture this February. For your family, your friends or maybe yourself ? However you want to express your sentiments, get inspired with our edit below. Shyla Short Heart Earrings Colorful Standard Faded Pink Merino Wool Blend Socks Ola Heart Card Baggu Embroidered Ditsy...
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January 14, 2023 – Mercantile London
Five Staples to Start Your New Season Wardrobe
At the start of the new season we are looking for pieces that are current and fresh, yet weather appropriate and easy to style with what we already have. As the 2023 collections arrive, we take a look at five staple styles that will build on what you already own, start to create the foundations of a hardworking, capsule...
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January 6, 2023 – Mercantile London
Pre- Collection Spring 23 Bellerose // Awaydays Nostalgia
In the pit of winter, Bellerose find inspiration for the new Spring 2023 collection in musing over their last escape, the last moment of true freedom and the carelessness experienced. When all bundled up in duvet coats, trying their best to keep the cold from sneaking in, they recall the warm and dewy summer breeze like a distant memory they...
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