Claudia Winkleman’s tartan goth Traitors style shouldn’t work – but it does

Is my wardrobe crying out for a kilt? It’s not a question I thought I’d ask myself. But then I didn’t reckon on the Claudia Winkleman effect. In the second episode of The Traitors’ second season, the presenter strode into the breakfast room wearing a tartan pleated skirt in shades of green and navy, and I’ve not been able to stop thinking about it since.

In theory, Winkleman should’ve appeared like she was cosplaying as a bagpiper or harking back to an old school uniform. And yet she didn’t – she looked incredible. But the presenter has form for pulling off looks that perhaps shouldn’t work, but undeniably do. Think of the eye-skimming full fringe. The thick eyeliner. The orange tan. If the rest of us tried to recreate this signature style, it’d probably raise eyebrows, or lead tolast year.