There's that ease mixed with chic comfort in wearing (wo)man pants.
just ensemble bellissimo
can I have everything, please? those pendants ...
pants + jacket make it all sexy
leather top and over-sized pants with lots of hardware
The boyfriend long shorts: fascination for contradiction
What can be casual, work-appropriate and feminine at the same time?
The long short, bermuda, boyfriend short.
Shall we call it that not-too-sexy item that can be squeezed into the season's looks? It only needs to be pulled off nonchalantly.
Observing the masters will come handy: watch how they werq it and give all your best to emulate.
Above are my favorite looks from the runway shows back in September. Marc Jacobs and Dries Van Noten have come up with the coolest swag. Unless you prefer someone else, then please tell me.
Below you got the street-style magister ludi of the likes of Miroslava Duma, Taylor Thomas Hill (as seen in Who What Wear) and their interpretations: dress-up doll, casual weekend errands, first-row worth buyer for example.
And now what? How do we DYI?
Craftsmanship, initiative and will to commit mistakes are the ingredients. Finally we all succeed.
You can search through thrift stores, or consignment boutiques, you never know how many of those coulottes invented by Elsa Schiaparelli and adored by Mrs. Chanel are still hiding in remote corners.
To make it easier, here's a line up of my go-to online places (you will recognize them, I prefer not to give credit as I am just an independent blogger and I am not affiliated with anyone other than my own style)
Now here's an Italian brand (to which I am not affiliated neither) that I adore and follow closely. 'It talks to me', it grasps my concepts and translates them into clothing: Semi-Couture by Erika Cavallini. Whenever I think of a piece or a collection I imagine a story, the mood of the look. That is how I have been trained when receiving the presentations of the collections back in the days. Cavallini, collection after collection, does that.
I am ready to give them a shot.
11 sexy ways to wear THE shirt, the ultimate (spring) top
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:
- it should be fitted,
- made of a delicate, soft and gauzy cotton, ideally chambray,
- 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