Woman in a pleated sand-coloured one-shoulder silk top and taupe cropped trousers with strappy heels under a stone archway

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Pleated asymmetric silk top with taupe cropped trousers

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Beige. I am told this is a colour. A one-shoulder top in knife-pleated silk with a bronze metallic panel. Taupe trousers, straight and cropped. Strappy sandals in the same taupe. Head to toe stone, and not one black thing. Check on me. Wear it to lunch.

A one-shoulder top of knife-pleated silk and bronze metallic panels, worn tonal with taupe cropped trousers and strappy sandals. Head-to-toe stone.

The top is the piece: fine knife-pleated silk in a sand tone, gathered across the chest and released at the hip in a fan of pleats, with a wide strap over one shoulder and a bronze metallic panel that gives the waist an edge. It is asymmetric by design rather than accident, and it stays put.

Below it, taupe cropped trousers, straight and pressed, ending a hand above the ankle, and strappy leather sandals in the same dust colour with a slim heel. The look is tonal from top to toe, which is what lets a pleated statement piece pass for daywear: lunch in an old town, a cocktail on a stone terrace, a warm evening that starts early. Spring and summer, and the first dry week of autumn.

No black anywhere. It happens roughly once a season, and I make a note of it.