Woman in a black leather and lace bustier, black satin trousers and a blazer over her shoulders between velvet armchairs
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Leather and lace · Autumn · Winter

Leather and lace bustier with satin trousers and blazer

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The blazer is on my shoulders. My arms have other plans. A black bustier in leather and lace, straps crossing the cut-outs. High-waisted satin trousers, cuffed at the ankle. Strappy sandals. Overdressed and underslept. The lounge is used to me. Wear it to a hotel bar. Ankles showing.

A black bustier in leather and lace with strap cut-outs, high-waisted black satin trousers and a blazer dropped over the shoulders, in a gilded hotel lounge.

The bustier is the piece: black leather cups over a lace body, boned in leather, with the side panels cut away so the lace is held on by two straps at the waist. It is built like a corset and worn like a top. The trousers are black satin, high-waisted with a single pleat, tapered to the ankle and finished with a cuff; the sheen turns the black into two colours under the lamps. The blazer is black wool, worn over the shoulders with the arms out, which is how it stays a blazer and not a suit.

It is dinner and cocktail dressing for autumn and winter, the kind that goes from a hotel lounge to a table without changing. Keep the tailoring loose and the shoes thin: black strappy sandals, an open toe, a heel. Hair down, small hoops, black watch and bead bracelet. No bag if the blazer has pockets, and it does.

Velvet chairs, gold frames, and she is still the darkest thing in the room. That was the plan.

the pieces

  • Black leather and lace strap bustierbustier · leather · black
  • Black satin high-waisted tapered trouserstrousers · satin · black
  • Black wool blazerblazer · wool · black
  • Black strappy heeled sandalsheels · leather · black

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styling notes

  • Blazer over the shoulders, arms out of the sleeves
  • Thin strappy sandal, not a platform
  • Trousers cuffed to show the ankle
  • Small hoops and the watch, nothing else

palette

Black#0F0F0F Charcoal#2E2C2B Gunmetal#4B4E52

details

Leather and laceAutumnWinterDinnerCocktailEventDark glamPowerLeatherLaceSatinWoolBlazerBustierHeelsTrousersHotelCut-outMesh panelHigh waist

wearabilitysomewhere in between

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