Woman in a boxy black blazer, geometric green and cobalt satin midi skirt and buckled combat boots in a rooftop garden

Dark tailoring · Spring · Autumn

Black boxy blazer with geometric print satin skirt and boots

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The blazer looks borrowed. It isn't. A boxy black wool blazer, sleeves pushed up, over a bias-cut satin midi skirt printed in green, cobalt and black, and buckled combat boots to stop it floating off. The print is the only colour allowed. Daytime, coffee, nobody asks.

A boxy black wool blazer with padded shoulders over a bias-cut satin midi skirt in green, cobalt and black, finished with buckled combat boots.

A black wool blazer cut short and boxy, with padded shoulders, a single button and a front hem that drops lower on one side. The sleeves are pushed up to show the lining. Under it, a bias-cut satin midi skirt printed in blocks of emerald, cobalt and black, cut in sharp diagonals like torn paper. On the feet, black leather combat boots with two buckled straps and a lug sole.

The skirt is the loud part, so everything around it is flat black: blazer, boots, smartwatch, bead bracelet. The proportions do the rest, short and square on top, long and fluid below, heavy at the ground. It is a daytime look for a bright autumn afternoon that survives a dinner without changing the boots. Hair down, small hoops, no bag in sight.

The skirt is a painting. The boots are there to stop anyone getting too close to it.

the pieces

  • Boxy black wool blazer with asymmetric hemblazer · wool · black
  • Geometric print satin midi skirtmidi skirt · satin · emerald
  • Black buckled combat bootsboots · leather · black

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styling notes

  • Push the sleeves up; the blazer is meant to look borrowed
  • Keep the boots heavy so the skirt does not float away
  • No colour anywhere else; the print is the colour

palette

Black#111111 Emerald#1E8A55 Cobalt#2A47B5

details

Dark tailoringSpringAutumnDinnerDaytimeOfficePowerSharpLeatherSatinWoolBlazerBootsRooftopAsymmetricBuckleOversized

wearabilitycloser to street

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