The whole point of fashion is to look up to now rather outdated. Is just another word for modern, really. Deliberately modern fashion makes it difficult to decipher by including some random elements – skin fringes, or Shanghai in the 1930s or ankle strap shoes – who are there to make the whole process more exclusive. A bit like modern password you include one digit and one uppercase letter. It keeps out the hoi polloi.
One of the key password, if you will, of these last few years has been to mix the level of formality of the top and bottom of your dress. So instead of wearing a tailored jacket with matching trousers, wearing a jacket with jeans, that smart signals without looking. I mean, duh. But in 2013 there is a new twist on this equation with smart-casual: was turned upside down. Whereas previously the formula centered around a top half and a costume dress-down lower half (for a festival, it might be a beautiful Isabel Marant-esque top with cut-off shorts), the latest take on this is a dress to upper half with a sharper half lower.
The trend has started this year, with the emergence of Sweatshirt-plus-pencil-skirt as a look. This is version 2013 the silk blouse with jeans: a combination of classical elegance-casual, with ingredients toppled. How the year went, other trends have fallen into oblivion after their six-week experience in high street windows, but this has gathered strength. A skirt of education with a casual top is a modern and simple appearance. For the summer, can be a Dior-esque skirt with a good quality t-shirt cotton; for fall, it could very well be a simple polo neck sweater with, say, a kilt. (Yes, a kilt. More information on this other day.)
To keep up, we need to rethink the quick shot shopping trip. Most of us, when looking for an upgrade of fast fashion, try intuitively a dress or a top that can be worn with jeans or a jacket. But this is a path looking for old-fashioned, not fashionable. Instead, zero in a skirt. The world keeps turning, right and which is now upside down.
‧ Jess wearing skirt prom, ￡48, topshop.com. T-shirt, ￡16, americanapparel.net. Shoes, ￡ 65, office.co.uk.
Hair and makeup: Tonee Roberio using Mac Cosmetics.
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