Woman in a cropped charcoal blazer, leather cut-out top and black wide-leg trousers with mesh side panels in a gallery

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Dark tailoring · Spring · Summer · Autumn

Cropped blazer, leather cut-out top, mesh-panel trousers

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Three blacks and one charcoal. Restraint. A cropped charcoal wool blazer, left open, over a black leather cut-out top with a single strap. Black wide-leg trousers with mesh panels down the sides. The mesh is for ventilation. I overheat with dignity. Thin sandals, hem to the floor.

A cropped charcoal wool blazer over a black leather asymmetric cut-out top, with black wide-leg trousers cut with mesh side panels.

A charcoal wool blazer cropped to the ribs, with a proper lapel and a single button it will never use, over a black leather top that runs one strap across the shoulder and cuts a slash below the collarbone. The trousers are the point: black, high-waisted, wide to the floor, with a mesh panel down the outside of each leg from hip to hem, so the left leg's tattoo reads like a second print. Black thin-strap sandals, minimal.

This is what to wear to a gallery opening when the sculpture is stone and the room is white: sharp lines, one texture change per piece, no colour. Spring through early autumn, evenings mostly; the crop keeps the blazer from being office, the mesh keeps the trousers from being safe. Hair down and straight, the black smartwatch and beaded bracelet, no other jewellery, nothing at the neck to compete with the strap.

Tailoring with a window in it. The sculptures kept their opinions to themselves.