After looking at such crazy prints and so much color and logos for years, a black dress in your feed now feels soothing. (This is probably also why so many shoppers are drawn to quiet luxury brands.) Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology and author of The Black Dress, agrees: After being deluged by color, people are rediscovering the appeal of black. In fact, Steele observes, theres a parallel between the moment of peak color saturation when the little black dress first came into being and our own
Im really eager to start busting out my fall pieces (including stuff in storage, new things and sewing projects!) and the end of the season is always a little boring for me
Nice color and embroidery is nice personal touch
Clothes are always subject to associations and we cant help our own, but Id suggest its worth reconsidering them if youre interested in wearing a leather shoe more casually Very true I referenced them in this post on wearing loafers with jeans, the styling is great My Yuketen camp mocs in black chromexel have become a staple item
Designers like Anthropologie and Staud are featuring beautiful dresses that feature buttons down the front with a collar and pinstripes like a nice button-down
I had to make their suits from a special stretchy fabric shiny because otherwise they were ripping them up