‘If we’re completely honest, us girls nicked this look off boybands on the red carpet’
This trouser suit isn’t actually mine, obviously. I don’t own a trouser suit. I don’t think I ever have, and in fact I don’t think I’ve ever wanted one, until recently. But in the past couple of months, the mental ticker tape of Things I Want Slash Need that flickers at the edge of my vision has begun to feature A Trouser Suit I Can Wear With Trainers.
I would love to make a case for this desire coming from a front-row epiphany with fancy Paris catwalk backstory, but I don’t really think that’s where this look comes from. If we’re completely honest, us girls nicked this look off boy bands on the red carpet a couple of years back. Posh suit, snazzy trainers, clean white T-shirt, dirty hair: that was the Baby Man Of The Year look, wasn’t it? And now that “tomboy” is A Thing, in fashion, and Karl Lagerfeld has decreed that trainers are the alpha shoe of the year, we’ve appropriated this and made it our own. (Also, those boys are all in navy tuxedos and shiny black shoes now, so don’t worry, you won’t get marshalled into a Range Rover in the Simon Cowell convoy by mistake.)
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