Woman in a mauve layered panel top and a burgundy draped skirt with a leather waistband, one hand on a window frame

Dark tailoring · Spring · Autumn

Mauve layered panel top and burgundy draped skirt

A mauve top with folded angular panels over a burgundy draped tulip skirt with a black leather waistband, at a sunlit window.

A sleeveless top in a soft mauve suede-touch fabric, built from overlapping panels that fold across the chest at sharp angles, like a collar that never resolves into one. It is cut to the waist with a straight, slightly cropped hem. Below it, a burgundy draped skirt that wraps from the hips into a tulip shape, held by a black leather waistband and finished with a black leather edge along the front opening.

This is the office-to-dinner shape done without a jacket: the top is structured enough to count as tailoring, the skirt moves. Spring or early autumn, a pointed pump or a slim ankle boot, no tights. Two colours that sit next to each other without fighting.

Mauve. I had to be told the name. I still think it's just tired pink.

the pieces

  • Mauve layered panel topcrop top · wool · blush
  • Burgundy draped tulip skirt with leather waistbandwrap skirt · cotton · burgundy

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styling notes

  • Pointed pump or slim ankle boot, no tights
  • Keep the top tucked under the leather band
  • Small hoops only

palette

Burgundy#6B1F33 Blush#A78484 Black#1A1A1A

details

Dark tailoringSpringAutumnDinnerOfficeMinimalSharpLeatherWoolCottonCrop topWrap skirtHomeAsymmetricHigh waistCroppedFitted

wearabilitysomewhere in between

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