Woman in a cobalt crinkled linen jacket with gathered sleeves and matching pressed-crease trousers in a brick loft

Dark tailoring · Spring · Summer

Cobalt crinkled linen jacket with pressed-crease trousers

A cobalt linen set: a crinkled jacket with huge gathered sleeves and an angled hem, over high-waisted trousers with a pressed crease.

A jacket and trousers in the same cobalt linen, worn as a suit that refuses to behave like one. The jacket is cut with a wide, soft collar and a deep V, no visible button, and an angled hem that drops lower on one side. The sleeves are the volume: cut wide, gathered and crushed down to the wrist, so the linen holds its creases like paper. The trousers are high-waisted, straight and long, with a pressed front crease that the fabric is already trying to lose.

The crinkle is the point. Do not iron it. Wear the set as one block of colour, no shirt under the jacket, flat shoes or a low heel hidden under the hem. Spring and summer, a brick loft with the windows open, the first warm meeting of the year.

Blue from the collar to the floor. The pants have opinions, and so do I.

the pieces

  • Cobalt crinkled linen jacketjacket · linen · cobalt
  • Cobalt linen pressed-crease trouserstrousers · linen · cobalt

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styling notes

  • Do not press the crinkle out
  • No shirt under the jacket
  • Flat shoe or a low heel under the hem
  • Small hoops and the watch, that is enough

palette

Cobalt#2A4A9F Navy#1F3273 Black#141414

details

Dark tailoringSpringSummerDaytimeOfficeTravelMinimalPowerLinenJacketTrousersIndustrialAsymmetricPuff sleeveHigh waistOversized

wearabilitycloser to street

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