Woman with long black hair in a navy blazer with sculpted shoulders and a frayed patchwork skirt at a gallery opening

Dark tailoring · Spring · Autumn

Navy sculpted-shoulder blazer over a patchwork skirt

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Shoulders first. A navy wool blazer with padded shoulders that go too far on purpose, a wrap front draped to one side, over a long patchwork skirt in frayed linen and washed denim. Strict on top, a mess below. Like my weekends. Wear it out on a weeknight.

A navy wool blazer with sharp extended shoulders and a draped wrap front, over a long frayed patchwork skirt in linen and washed denim.

The blazer is navy wool with shoulders that go further than they should: wide, padded and squared off past the arm. Notched lapels, a V neckline, and a wrap front that drapes across into a long pointed panel falling to one side. Sleeves pushed up and gathered at the forearm.

Under it, a long skirt pieced together from raw-edged linen in oatmeal and washed blue denim, with frayed handkerchief points at the hem. The tailoring is strict; the skirt is not. It belongs at a gallery opening on a weeknight, between the sculptures and the warm white wine. Autumn and late spring, a flat pointed boot or a heel, hair straight.

Everyone was looking at the sculptures. I let them have that.