Woman in a black leather bustier and emerald and bronze colour-block satin skirt, seen from behind in a brick loft

Satin and slip · Spring · Autumn

Leather bustier with emerald and bronze satin skirt

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The top is quiet so the skirt can talk. A black leather bustier with cut-outs at the sides. Then a satin handkerchief skirt, blocked in emerald and bronze, points at the hem. Somebody else is cooking. I brought the skirt. Wear it to a dinner party. Hair down.

A black leather bustier with side cut-outs over a colour-blocked satin skirt in emerald and bronze, seen from behind in a brick loft.

The bustier is black leather, boned, with thin straps and a cut-out at each side of the waist that reads as structure rather than decoration. The skirt does the talking: panels of emerald and bronze satin sewn in vertical blocks, high-waisted, cut to a handkerchief hem that falls to mid-calf at the points and higher between them. The two colours sit side by side rather than blended, so the skirt reads as one piece from the front and as stripes when she turns.

Worn together they need nothing else. The bustier stays plain against the skirt's colour; the hair goes down the back to break up the open back. It is a dinner outfit for the months when the evening is still warm enough to leave the arms out, spring through early autumn, and it works in a room with old brick and a velvet chair to lean on. Heels, small hoops, the watch she never takes off.

Green and bronze in the same skirt is a decision, not an accident. She made it before the camera arrived.