This Just In—Fashion People Are Ditching Windbreakers For This Chicer Jacket Trend This Autumn

With autumn‘s chillier days and drizzly tendencies taking the helm, equipping your wardrobe with the perfect in-between layer is suddenly a rather pressing matter. Rather than picking up where spring left off and bundling up in yet another windbreaker, however, Victoria Beckham is taking a chicer approach to transitional dressing this season, championing a new jacket trend in the process.

Subbing the windbreaker out for what I’m about to dub autumn 2026’s most important jacket trend, I spotted Victoria in the chicest drawstring jacket.

Opting for a slightly oversized style in a dark khaki wash, Victoria also tapped into the earthy colour palette that makes its annual return every autumn, making her choice especially apt for the season ahead. But whilst last season’s windbreakers and bomber jackets centred on a roomy, slouchy silhouette, this season’s drawstring jackets retain that relaxed energy while introducing a little more shape. The clue is in the name: drawstring detailing cinches the waist, creating a more sculpted silhouette.

Less formal than a blazer but with some of the same structure you’d expect from a peplum style, the drawstring jacket occupies that sweet spot between casual and polished—making it a particularly useful addition to your autumn wardrobe.