Every Single One of My Friends Is Obsessed With These Dresses—12 That Are Guaranteed to Impress

Rixo is a great British success story. Best friends Henrietta Rix and Orlagh McCloskey created their fashion business from the front room in their student flat in 2015. Ten years later, their vintage-style dresses have had a colossal impact on how women in the UK dress. I can't remember the last wedding I went to where I didn't see a guest wearing Rixo, and it's the brand that's mentioned the most among my friends. Look in any high-street store, and you'll also see its influence.
Rixo creates beautiful silk dresses you can wear to any occasion and looks to vintage prints and silhouettes to ensure that these are classics you can treasure. When you're spending £250 on a dress, you want it to be something you can wear again and again, and the Rixo aesthetic is the antidote to throwaway fashion. Its Instagram page demonstrates just how versatile these dresses can be and the broad appeal they have. You'll see mothers and daughters twinning in Rixo, women sporting Rixo dresses with trainers to brunch, Rixo bridesmaids' dresses, and even the occasional bridal look. The label also offers an extended sizes range which goes up to UK size 24, so that more people can enjoy wearing the versatile frocks.
"We don't design for one specific type of woman. No matter your age, shape or size, we want our pieces to feel flattering," McCloskey says. "No matter how nice a print or design is, the cut has to be perfect to allow for comfortable and confident wear. In terms of cut, most of our dress styles are bias-cut, which is really flattering, as it moulds to the wearer's body. Creating bias-cut pieces is more expensive, but we'd rather sacrifice the expense to ensure our customers feel great and are getting true value. We tweak every single piece in our collections—even our classic shapes—to continuously improve them and ensure all the details are absolutely perfected."
The prints and silhouettes will be reinvented each season, but there are always consistent themes and familiar styles in every collection. "Our Rose dress is a shape we launched in our first collection and a silhouette that is so well loved by our customers that we have reinvented it in new prints in collections following."
Slip dresses, puffy sleeves, updated polka dots, Instagrammable animal prints and clashing prints have all long been Rixo signatures. However, Rixo notes that the most popular dresses are often the wrap and button-down styles. "It's because they are so versatile—you can wear them on their own, layered over a T-shirt and jeans for a more laid-back look or even as a swim cover-up while on holiday."
Keep scrolling to see the best Rixo dresses you can buy right now.
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Starting off with a timeless design. There's something very Parisian about this polka-dot number, don't you think?
Falling heavy on the antelope print trend, this is the dress for spring.
Just because we're heading into spring doesn't mean you have to leave black dresses behind.
This story was published at an earlier time and has since been updated.
Emma is a freelance fashion editor with over 15 years experience in industry, having worked at The Telegraph, Grazia and, most recently, British Vogue. Emma was part of the founding team of Who What Wear UK, where she worked for six years as Deputy Editor and then Editor—helping shape the team into what it is today is one of the biggest privileges of her career and she will always see herself as a Who What Wear girl, contributing to both the US and UK sites. Whether she's writing about runway trends or spotlighting emerging brands, she aims to write about fashion in a way that is democratic and doesn't promote over consumption.
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