Woman in a cropped lace-inset leather jacket, embroidered bodysuit, split-leg trousers and marbled platform boots

Leather and lace · Spring · Autumn

Lace-inset leather jacket, bodysuit and split-leg trousers

A cropped black leather jacket with lace insets over a skin-tone embroidered bodysuit, black trousers with one leg cut away, and marbled platform boots.

A black leather jacket cropped high, with notched lapels, raw frayed edges and panels of black guipure lace cut into the sleeves and body. Under it, a skin-tone mesh bodysuit embroidered with black and silver vines that cover the bust and run to the waist. Black tailored trousers with a pressed crease and the left leg cut away on a diagonal from hip to hem, so one leg is trouser and the other is not. Grey marbled leather platform boots with a block heel.

This is a look for a night that counts as an event, or a shoot that pretends to be one. Autumn into spring, indoors or wherever the concrete is. The boots are the balance: with a thin heel the trousers would look like an accident.

One trouser leg. The tattoos needed the room.

the pieces

  • Cropped black leather jacket with lace insetsjacket · leather · black
  • Skin-tone embroidered mesh bodysuitbodysuit · mesh · tan
  • Black split-leg tailored trouserstrousers · black
  • Grey marbled leather platform bootsboots · leather · grey

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styling notes

  • Platform boot, not a thin heel
  • Jacket open; the embroidery shows
  • Hair down, no bag

palette

Black#141414 Grey#8A8783 Tan#D9B8A2

details

Leather and laceSpringAutumnNight outEventEditorialDark glamRockLeatherLaceMeshBodysuitBootsJacketTrousersIndustrialAsymmetricEmbroideredCroppedHigh slit

wearabilitycloser to runway

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