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Ivory cowl halter top with a black leather maxi skirt

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Stairs. I sat. The skirt had other plans. An ivory silk halter draped into a cowl, a black leather maxi skirt wrapped high and split to the floor, black stiletto sandals. The leather was my idea. Dinner, then the lobby, slowly.

A draped ivory cowl halter over a black leather maxi skirt with a long side slit, sat on a marble staircase after dark.

An ivory halter top in a fluid silk jersey, draped into a cowl at the front and tied behind the neck, with an open back. Under it, a black leather maxi skirt that wraps high on the waist and falls to the floor, with a long side slit that opens the moment she sits. Two pieces, two textures: one pours, the other holds its shape.

Worn with black strappy stiletto sandals on a warm-lit marble staircase, the kind that belongs to a hotel lobby at midnight. The cowl does the evening; the leather does the attitude. Best from late spring to early autumn, for dinner, cocktails or a night that begins at the bar and ends somewhere with stairs.

I sat down because the stairs were there. The slit was not consulted.

the pieces

  • Ivory draped cowl halter toptank top · silk · ivory
  • Black leather wrap maxi skirtmaxi skirt · leather · black
  • Black strappy stiletto sandalsheels · leather · black

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styling notes

  • Cowl draped, back open, hair down over it
  • Skirt wrapped high, slit kept long
  • Thin-strap stiletto, nothing chunky
  • Neutral lip and let the ivory be the light

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