A cocktail to revisit the button-down shirt this season:

1/4 of Italian sensuality,

1/4 of fast fashion

50% of your own sense of style

Think blue

When you say the blue shirt the collective imaginary says 'boring'. This season it's a re-birth, a joyful, sexy and playful one. Spruce it up from your man's closet, like Camille Charriere suggests in her interpretation of the man's shirt or reinterpret your own. 

• with a leather mini-skirt and flat sandals
• with skinny black jeans and Gucci loafers
• fasten the first button and let the rest unbuttoned like at the Alexander Wang's runways
• wear it over a pair of skinny khakis
• buy a sophisticated, feminine painter's version like in Valentino's print ad
• bell bottom denim and heels

If you don't own a blue one, when you buy one just remember a few key points:

1. it should be fitted,
2. made of a delicate, soft and gauzy cotton, ideally chambray,
3. the color should resemble a light denim blue. 

The white essential shirt

Ok here is classics department. There's no limit to how many white shirts you must own. No less than three is a standard: fitted, button down and oversized. 

• oversized over cropped khakis and slip-ons
• painter's shirt over denim shorts with Birks
• fitted raised collar and an high waisted long full skirt. here you can go flats or heels, chic as hell
• french collar, one extra button opened tucked in a pencil skirt and heels
• french collar, cuffed denim, penny loafers and car coat: a spring winner