Woman in a crimson blazer with organza sleeves and a layered organza handkerchief skirt in a workshop at dusk
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Dark tailoring · Spring · Autumn

Red crepe blazer with organza sleeves and layered skirt

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Crimson, with organza sleeves. Restraint took the day off. A crimson crepe blazer panelled with organza at the sleeves and hem, worn open, over a layered organza skirt that falls in points. Thin black heel. A top under it would make it a costume. Opening night, hair down.

A crimson crepe blazer panelled with organza at the sleeves and hem, over a layered organza skirt that falls in points.

Red on red in two weights. The blazer is a crimson crepe with peak lapels and a single hidden closure, but the sleeves and the lower back are cut in crimson organza, so the arm tattoos show through the colour like a filter. The skirt is layers of the same organza over a short crepe underskirt, cut in long handkerchief points that reach the knee in front and the calf behind.

It is an evening suit that does not behave like one. A pointed black heel, hair down, no bag. Autumn dinners, a theatre night, anything where you will be standing near a lamp. Wear it open; a top underneath turns it into a costume.

I found it in a woodworker's shop at blue hour. The plank was not mine. The light was.

the pieces

  • Crimson crepe blazer with organza sleevesblazer · silk · red
  • Crimson layered organza handkerchief skirtmidi skirt · silk · red

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styling notes

  • Worn open; a top under it makes it a costume
  • Pointed black heel, thin
  • Hair down so the organza sleeves stay the focus

palette

Red#A5202E Oxblood#6A1420 Burgundy#8A2A3A

details

Dark tailoringSpringAutumnDinnerEventDark glamPowerSilkBlazerMidi skirtIndustrialAsymmetricDeep V

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