Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: brighten the winter gloom with accessories that add personality

<p>This is the season when dressing is dictated by logistics – safety first and function-led. But don’t let that put you off adding the odd flourish</p><p>My very first girlcrush is still my ultimate winter style icon. Miss Bianca, star of&nbsp;the 1977 film The&nbsp;Rescuers, is Disney’s most underrated princess. As&nbsp;the Hungarian delegate to the Rescue Aid Society, an international humanitarian organisation run by mice with a secret headquarters in the walls of the UN building in New York City, Miss Bianca travels the world rescuing children in peril, and never allows being a&nbsp;mouse to stop her either from&nbsp;feats of bravery – commanding meetings of international delegates, rescuing children from flooded caves – or from rocking a look. She has a nice line in shawl-collar trapeze-line coats (think mid-century Balenciaga), but&nbsp;her real style signature is her glamorous scarves and hats. In a&nbsp;violet&nbsp;pillbox hat with a matching scarf tied in a bow, or dashing shades of mustard, Bianca makes cosy winter dressing look delicious. She might be a&nbsp;mouse, but she is never, ever mousey.</p><p>A cartoon mouse is an unusual place to begin an article about winter accessories. It is also an unusual point from which to draw a line to a former first lady of the US, but while pairing a&nbsp;tiny animated rodent with Michelle Obama as co-style icons is a mismatch on paper, it is not so in spirit. At the 2009 inauguration, Obama wore a&nbsp;lemongrass coat and dress by Isabel Toledo, offset by olive-green leather gloves. Her daughters, Malia and Sasha, were chicly bundled in scarf-and-glove sets chosen to contrast with their coats. Their clothes were elegant, but it was the accessories that made the look memorable. The family looked comfortable, relatable, and quietly joyful: no small feat on a freezing day dense with symbolism and expectation.</p> <a href="https://www