New York Fashion Week – said to be the most commercial window in the industry calendar – has debuted a slew of instantly wearable looks that don’t look like an art student’s wet dream. Here’s our best in show.

Leave overcoats to the company board – providing your colours match up, you’ve full license to channel your inner roadman with a puffer jacket this party season. The clash between formal and informal works thanks to the monochrome colour scheme and shiny finish. This is what James Bond would wear on a cold night of well-dressed espionage.

We’re all for layering, but a shacket over a tee under a leather jacket could be considered a fabric too far. Not when it’s done as well as this look at Coach.

The New York label made bountiful layering cool by contrasting textures but marrying tones: keep your palette all one shade and you can get wrapped up without looking like a five-year-old on snow day.

In a sea of multi-coloured leathers, boiler suits and paint-splattered sweater vests, Raf Simons’ first show for Calvin Klein was punctuated with this remarkably simple – and wearable – look.

The long overcoat is a menswear fixture and the classic silhouette sings thanks to the monochromes palette. And while the western boots could be a little ‘Vote Trump’ for some tastes, the sentiment still stands tall (and cool).

Since there’s so much peculiarity on the runway, strokes of normality are often the standouts – much like Rag & Bone’s much-loved SS18 release.

Rather than hosting a runway show, the label presented its finest at a charity function, with several looks applying universal rules to your wardrobe. In this case, a simple knit for texture lifted with quietly attention-grabbing trousers below and minimal kicks. Simply does it.

Opening Ceremony’s latest outing tapped all those crap school trips you remember, but injected prints and colours a plenty that’ll work if you tone down elsewhere.

Our full marks go to the anorak. Made A* material thanks to a muted floral print, it’s a piece that works for both the commute and your downtime, even if that is a rainy weekend looking at fossils.

And finally, before you start spitting feathers at pink-on-pink-on-pink, know that it’s the idea here that matters, not the colour itself: tonal.

Dressing like a hooligan at a West Ham match becomes fashion-crowd acceptable when a) you opt for a colour that isn’t grey, and b) show a reluctance to throw pint glasses at anyone supporting the other team. Tie several shades together – blues, neutrals and the like – for a tonal, modern take on sportswear.