Most style advice is a shopping list. Here is what to buy this season, and next season here is what to buy instead.
I’ve never found that useful. What I’ve found useful is a small number of things that work, that I reach for without thinking, and that still look right three years in.
That’s the whole idea. Buy the few things well.
The coat.
There is a mink coat in my closet in perfect condition. I paid a hundred dollars for it at a consignment shop in Chelsea.
I tell that story often, and people usually hear it as a bargain. It isn’t, quite. The point isn’t that I got something cheap — it’s that the price of a thing and the worth of a thing came apart, and I happened to be paying attention that afternoon.
That happens more than you’d think. Not on the floor of a department store, where the price is the price. But in the places where things arrive secondhand, carrying their quality and not their markup.
What earns its place.
Three questions, and a piece has to answer all three.
Will I still want this in five years? Does it work with what I already own? And is the price honest — am I paying for the making, or for the name on it?
The last one is where most of the money goes wrong.
What you’ll find here.
Dressing for real occasions, not editorial ones. The pieces worth the splurge and, more often, the ones that aren’t. What photographs well and what doesn’t. And the restraint to leave the rest.
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— À bientôt
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