Woman in a black leather cut-out blazer, white satin cowl top and ivory satin wide-leg trousers by a concrete wall

Dark tailoring · Spring · Autumn

Black leather cut-out blazer with ivory satin trousers

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Leather and ivory, in daylight. I live dangerously. A fitted black leather blazer slashed at the waist and elbow, a white satin cowl top tucked under it, ivory pleated satin wide-leg trousers with silver clips. The slash is a line, not a window. Pointed pump. Dinner.

A fitted black leather blazer with slashes at the waist and elbow, a white satin cowl top and ivory pleated trousers with silver clip hardware.

The blazer is black leather, cut close through the body with a rounded, padded shoulder and curved seams that end in two open slashes: one across the waist, one at the back of the elbow. Under it, a white satin cowl-neck top that drapes rather than clings. The trousers are ivory satin, pleated from a wide waistband, with two small silver clip fastenings at the hip that do the work a belt would.

This is the black-and-white rule with the proportions changed: hard leather on top, liquid satin below, and just enough light through the cut-outs to keep it from reading as a suit. It goes to dinner as it is, or to a meeting with the top swapped for a plain white shirt. Spring and autumn, in that last hour of sun that makes concrete look expensive.

The jacket has holes in it. They were charged extra for those.