Style icon Alexa Chung’s Archive collection for M&S launches in stores and online today, featuring pieces from the retailer’s back catalogue of designs. Featuring summer dresses, trousers, skirts vest tops, knitwear and sandals, the 31-piece collection updates some M&S classic designs with an “Alexa twist”.

Ms Chung said: “I’ve always had an affection for M&S, so I’m thrilled to be a part of this unique project. There was something very touching about looking back through British history of which M&S is synonymous.”

The collection includes the Frances Trench, a modern take on a style “loved by M&S customers since the Fifties” and the Myrtle Jumper: “Have all the fun of summer with all the warmth of winter in this dreamy fluffy pinkness”.