Woman in a black leather one-shoulder top and split leather mini skirt with gladiator sandals on sand dunes

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Leather one-shoulder top and split mini skirt in the dunes

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Leather. In the desert. Yes. A black leather one-shoulder top with a keyhole cut-out, and a matching mini skirt split twice at the front. Gladiator sandals, buckled, for the sand. Forty degrees and I chose this. Nobody stopped me. Wear the two together, at sunset, never apart.

A black leather one-shoulder top with a keyhole cut-out over a matching leather mini skirt split twice at the front, gladiator sandals in the sand.

A black leather top cut on one shoulder, with a small keyhole opened at the strap and seams that follow the ribs to a pointed hem. The skirt is the same leather, high-waisted and panelled, with two deep splits at the front over fitted black shorts, the panels meeting in a point that mirrors the top. Black leather gladiator sandals with a stacked heel and a row of buckles up the ankle, half sunk in sand.

This is a summer look with the temperature turned down: storm light, wind, a sky that cannot decide. The two pieces are a set and should be worn as one, leather on leather, nothing added; the splits and the keyhole are the only air it lets in. It belongs to an editorial day or a night that starts at a desert bar, not to a street. Small hoops, the black smartwatch and the beaded bracelet, hair straight and moving.

Leather in a desert. She has dressed for worse weather in better shoes.