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The Unisex Accessories You Need This Summer

The season’s best sunglasses, bags, belts and jewellery

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Often when I’m out, I get jealous of men’s accessories. Usually lighter-weight and more practical, the often higher-priced women’s accessories seem to pale in comparison. However, with the current trend in sportswear, streetwear and utility wear taking over the runways, the accessories market is becoming vastly more inclusive.

Unisex (or genderless) accessories mark a further move towards equality in the fashion industry, from emerging unisex brands like Virtual Super Land (which also promotes a new augmented reality) to Jacquemus’s recent unisex fashion show. Here at MILLE, we’ve made an edit of our key unisex accessories to sport this summer.

Brain Dead Giraffe Front Tote Bag

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From skateboard to punk, Brain Dead are leading the way with their unisex and strong graphic design collections. The brand is a collective, with collaborations from artists all over the world. This sturdy and industrial bag with zipped-pockets and a royal blue enclosure is small-but-stylish and is perfect for the summer months, 

USD 100 / AED 450

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Acne Bornt Sunglasses

 

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Made in France and designed in Stockholm, these unisex sunglasses from Acne’s new collection offer classic minimalist design, frameless with mirrored lenses and are 100 per cent acetate. 

USD 347 / AED 1276

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1017 Alyx 9SM Claw Belt

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With whole rolls of tape and a plethora or keys hanging from belt loops, trouser accessories are bigger than trousers this season. This is taken to the ultimate by Los-Angeles-by-way-of-Milan brand1017-ALYX-9SM (or simply Alyx to those in the know). Reinventing a classic accessory with their signature brand of technicality, their claw belt combines a waist bag and belt, with a main zip compartment and sturdy carabiner clip.

USD 419 / AED 1537

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Maison Margiela 11 Signet Ring Necklace

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In the style of an heirloom traditional keepsake, this signet ring pendant from Maison Margiela is replete with subversive points of interest – a study in duality. The chain is made up of two different styles – half fine, polished silver and the other chunkier, xidized and pewter in tone. The signet itself is double-sided and features a plain silver face at one side and a mother of pearl shield-shaped insert on the other.

USD 419 / AED 1537

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Timex x Nigel Cabourn Referee’s Wacth

 

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A hot-buy from their second collaboration, the veteran British designer creates a classic unisex timepiece inspired by referee’s watches from the 1950’s. A simple cream face is protected by domed acrylic crystal and finished with ¾ colour blocking from minutes 0-45 – perfect for keeping track of (half) time.

USD 175 / AED 642

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