Woman in a black leather one-shoulder bustier with a cape sleeve and black pleated wide-leg trousers on concrete stairs

All black · Spring · Summer · Autumn

Black leather one-shoulder bustier with a cape sleeve

A seamed leather bustier with one shoulder and a cape that falls from it, over black pleated wide-leg trousers cut out at the hips. Concrete stairs, last sun.

The top is a black leather bustier with moulded cups and vertical seams, a pointed hem at the front and one shoulder only. From that shoulder a single leather cape sleeve falls straight to the hip, open along the arm, and a slash cut-out runs across the bust just under the strap. The trousers are black, high-waisted and wide, with two deep pleats at the front and a pressed crease, and the waistband is cut away at each hip so the top of the hip shows between two bands.

It is an evening look that reads as tailoring from a distance and as leather up close. Nothing else is needed: a pointed black heel or a sharp ankle boot, hair down over the uncovered shoulder. Warm nights, from spring to early autumn, for the kind of place with stairs you have to walk down slowly.

One shoulder, one cape, one colour. I do not do halves when it comes to black.

the pieces

  • Black leather one-shoulder bustier with cape sleevebustier · leather · black
  • Black pleated wide-leg trousers with hip cut-outswide leg trousers · black

similar pieces

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styling notes

  • Pointed black heel or a sharp ankle boot
  • Hair down over the uncovered shoulder
  • Nothing else in black; the cape is the accessory

palette

Black#111111 Charcoal#2B2B2B Gunmetal#4A4A4C

details

All blackSpringSummerAutumnNight outCocktailEventDark glamPowerLeatherBustierWide-leg trousersIndustrialCut-outPleatedOne shoulderHigh waist

wearabilitysomewhere in between

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