Woman in a cobalt blazer with pleated balloon sleeves and a draped cobalt faux leather skirt in a lamp-lit artist's studio

Dark tailoring · Spring · Autumn

Cobalt pleated-sleeve blazer with a draped leather skirt

Cobalt on cobalt: a wool blazer with huge knife-pleated balloon sleeves over a faux leather skirt draped and cut open at the hip.

One colour, two materials, a lot of sleeve. The blazer is cobalt wool crepe with notch lapels, a single covered button at the waist and sleeves that balloon from the shoulder in knife pleats before gathering into a pleated cuff at the forearm. It stops at the hip. The skirt is cobalt faux leather with a soft sheen, high-waisted, with a cut-out window at the hip, a front slit and the lower half gathered and draped into a soft bustle at the side.

This is an evening outfit that works indoors, under lamps, in rooms where people are looking. Wear it to a gallery opening or a dinner where the chairs are far apart. Keep the top uncovered and the neckline open; the sleeves already count as jewellery, so nothing on the wrists but the smartwatch and beads. A pointed black boot underneath, not a sandal.

I stood still so the sleeves could have their moment. They took it.

the pieces

  • Cobalt wool blazer with pleated balloon sleevesblazer · wool · cobalt
  • Cobalt faux leather draped skirt with hip cut-outmidi skirt · faux leather · cobalt

similar pieces

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styling notes

  • Nothing on the wrists beyond the smartwatch and beads, the sleeves are the jewellery
  • A pointed black boot, not a sandal
  • Keep the blazer buttoned once at the waist
  • Hair down, no bag

palette

Cobalt#1B3FC4 Navy#16287A Black#141414

details

Dark tailoringSpringAutumnCocktailEventEditorialPowerSharpFaux leatherWoolBlazerMidi skirtIndustrialCut-outPuff sleevePleatedHigh slit

wearabilitycloser to runway

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