Leather buckle crop top with marbled grey wide-leg trousers

A cropped top in matte black leather cut on the diagonal: one wide buckled strap over the left shoulder, a second narrow strap across the collarbone, a slash cut-out at the neckline and a buckled tab that closes the side. The trousers are wide and pleated, high on the waist, in a grey and silver marbled print that looks like smoke dragged across charcoal. Clear vinyl mules on a sculpted black heel.

Worn walking, not posing, which is how the trousers are best seen: the print moves with the leg. It is a spring and summer outfit for a late aperitivo or a night that starts in a gallery, the leather top doing the hard part and the print doing the talking. Keep the jewellery to the black smartwatch and the beaded bracelet and let the buckles be the hardware.

The floor was concrete. The trousers were not consulted.