Woman in a black and white colour-block blazer and matching wide-leg trousers on a rooftop garden with a city skyline behind

Dark tailoring · Spring · Autumn · All season

Black and white colour-block blazer and wide-leg trousers

A black and white colour-block blazer with gathered shoulders and matching split-colour wide-leg trousers, on a rooftop garden in hard afternoon sun.

A single-breasted blazer split down the middle: black on the left, white on the right, with the lapels and the flap pockets swapped so each side carries the other's colour. The shoulders are gathered into a soft puff, the sleeves end in a turned-back contrast cuff, and one black button holds it at the waist. The trousers follow the same rule, wide-legged and high-waisted, one leg black and one white, with a contrast panel down the side.

It is a suit, so it works like one: office, a launch, a dinner where you want to be found in the room. Spring and autumn, or any day the sun is this hard. Worn open-necked with the lapels as the only layer, a black pointed heel below and no bag that adds a third colour.

Two colours is my idea of a riot.

the pieces

  • Black and white colour-block blazerblazer · black
  • Black and white colour-block wide-leg trouserswide leg trousers · black

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styling notes

  • Lapels open, no top beneath
  • Black pointed heel
  • No third colour: no bag, no red lip

palette

Black#131313 White#F2F0EC Charcoal#3A3937

details

Dark tailoringSpringAutumnAll seasonDinnerEventOfficePowerSharpWoolBlazerWide-leg trousersRooftopPuff sleeveDeep VOversized

wearabilitysomewhere in between

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