Woman in a black leather cut-out bustier and silver-black jacquard wide-leg trousers among olive trees in a stone courtyard

Statement trousers · Spring · Summer

Leather cut-out bustier with metallic jacquard trousers

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I said no prints. This slipped through. A black leather bustier with a band of cut-outs. Wide-leg trousers in a smudged black and silver jacquard. Thin-strap sandals. It looks like static on an old television. I find that calming. Wear it under olive trees. Cropped blazer when it cools.

A black leather bustier with a strappy cut-out band, worn with high-waisted wide-leg trousers in a smudged black and silver jacquard. Olive trees optional.

The bustier is black leather, moulded cups with a straight neckline and a band of vertical straps and cut-outs below the cups that stops just above the trousers. The trousers are the loud part: high-waisted, wide-leg, in a jacquard of black, gunmetal and silver that looks like brushed-off paint from a distance and metal thread up close.

Black leather sandals with a single thin strap, and nothing else. This is a hot-weather evening look; the leather is short enough not to suffer, and the trousers move enough to catch a breeze. It walks from a courtyard aperitivo to dinner without a jacket, and in spring it takes a cropped black blazer over the top. Keep jewellery to the small hoops and the watch, the print is doing the talking.

Olive trees are the only thing I let upstage a trouser.

the pieces

Black leather cut-out bustierbustier · leather · black
Metallic jacquard high-waisted wide-leg trouserswide leg trousers · metallic · gunmetal
Black thin-strap leather sandalsheels · leather · black