Woman in a black faux leather blazer with peaked shoulders, metallic wide-leg trousers and platform boots by a concrete wall

Leather and lace · Autumn · Winter

Faux leather power-shoulder blazer with metallic trousers

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Faux leather, real shoulders. A black blazer with peaked shoulders and a seamed waist, buttoned, sleeves ruched to the elbow. Wide metallic trousers in gunmetal, breaking over black platform boots with buckles. I cannot cook. I can do this. Wear it anywhere with a queue outside.

A black faux leather blazer with peaked shoulders and a seamed waist, over wide gunmetal metallic trousers and platform boots.

A black faux leather blazer with shoulders that arrive first. They are padded, peaked and pleated into the sleeve head, then the jacket narrows hard: seamed through the waist, closed on a single button, flap pockets sitting on the hip. The sleeves are pushed up and ruched to the elbow. Below it, wide-leg trousers in a gunmetal metallic weave, high in the waist and long enough to break over the boot, catching light the way wet asphalt does.

It is worn closed, as a top, with black platform boots with a buckled strap and a block heel, which add height the low camera angle did not need. This is a cold-season going-out suit: dinner that turns into something, or an opening where the building is the main exhibit.

The shoulders have their own postcode. I let them have the room.