Woman in a forest green satin cape-sleeve top with leather corset panel and matching wide-leg trousers on a concrete rooftop

Dark tailoring · Spring · Autumn

Green cape-sleeve satin top with leather corset and trousers

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If it has to be colour, it's all of it. A satin cape-sleeve top draped over a leather corset panel, with textured wide-leg trousers in the same forest green. Thin black sandals. It's still one colour. That's how I negotiate. Wear it to a long dinner, cape sleeve left free.

Head-to-toe forest green: a satin cape-sleeve top draped over a leather corset panel, with high-waisted textured trousers and a folded peplum.

One colour, three textures. The top is forest green satin with a high neck, draped diagonally across the front and falling into a single wide cape sleeve on the left; the right side is a fitted panel of matching green leather, seamed like a corset. The trousers are the same green in a textured wool weave, high-waisted and wide, with a folded peplum panel at the hip that reads as a half-skirt. Black sandals, minimal.

This is event tailoring for anyone who is done with black: a dinner with a dress code, a gallery opening, an autumn wedding where the bride can cope. Keep it entirely tonal and let the satin, leather and wool do the contrast. A thin black sandal is the only outside colour it needs.

Brutalist rooftop, sun going down behind the concrete. The cape sleeve moves when the wind does, which is more than the building manages.

the pieces

Forest green satin cape-sleeve top with leather corset panelwrap top · satin · forest green
Forest green textured wide-leg trousers with peplum panelwide leg trousers · wool · forest green
Black thin-strap sandalsheels · leather · black