Could A Cheryl Comeback Cure Our Winter Blues?
Last night, I found myself clutching a mango White Claw on the streets of Mayfair, surrounded by bleary-eyed art kids and ravers, when a vox pop microphone was suddenly thrust towards me by the ever eclectically dressed Dora Densham Bond, who was sporting her latest Vinted find: a red military jacket. “It’s very ‘Fight For This Love’,” I said, betraying both my Zillennial instincts and my low-brow cultural references. Together we mused: are we in the midst of a Cheryl Cole Fernandez-Versini Tweedy renaissance?
I went to bed thinking about it, with visions of Jenna Ortega’s military jacket/distressed denim miniskirt combo still lingering from Jonathan Anderson’s Dior womenswear debut, and woke to the welcome news that I wasn’t imagining things: the Cheryl resurgence is real. The people’s princess is back.
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Following last year’s long-awaited (by me, anyway) Girls Aloud reunion tour, Cheryl has cautiously dipped a toe back into the spotlight, supporting her bandmate Nicola Roberts at the gala performance of her West End show, Hadestown.
Decked out from top to toe in autumnal shades of chocolate brown and rust, Cheryl’s appearance was a welcome reminder that, while the prospect of deep winter blues may be looming on the horizon, there’s nothing a cocooning coat and a bouncy blow-dry can’t fix in the meantime.
Whether this outing was a one-off or a sign of more things to come, it was good to see our Geordie queen back in the limelight – even if her days of nipping to the garage “in my pyjamas for a pint of milk” are far behind her.