Black leather crop top with a green handkerchief skirt

The top is black leather, cropped high and cut like armour: a round neck with narrow slits either side of the collar, a seamed front with a pointed centre hem, and short sleeves that rise into sharp, folded, sculpted shoulders that sit well above the shoulder line. The skirt is satin, colour-blocked in emerald and black panels that cross in a wide V from a black waistband, with a handkerchief hem that drops to points at the ankle and lifts to the shin in between. Black strappy sandals with a high heel and thin crossed straps.

This is an evening piece for warm months, built for a balcony or a terrace where the wind can get at the skirt. Nothing at the neck, nothing on the arms; the shoulders are already a statement and the satin needs the room. Cocktail, an event, the night that follows.

Shoulders that could cut glass, a skirt that moves like water. I know which one people remember.