Whether you are going out or staying in, leather and its faux counterpart is perfect for now and for beyond. If you’ve been living in joggers and leggings for months, then why not upgrade your athleisure look with a pair of faux leather leggings? Perfect with an oversized knit or hoodie and trainers or you can dress them up with …
Going Hell for Pleather
Leather is a key fabric this autumn and while a jacket is a total no-brainer, wardrobe staple, there’s lots more out there in the world of leather and pleather. Lots of the trousers will be totally marmite and also man repelling but the skirts are actually an easy-wear. When I pulled out a pair of pleather joggers in H&M, my husband guffawed as …
If bling ain’t your thing…
Okay so maybe all the bling from last week wasn’t for you, but you might still want to up your party game slightly and look a bit more ‘done’ without being overdone. In which case here are some different options to try and although all are very different, the common starting point is one of texture: lace, velvet and leather – …
All of a leather
Leather – it’s one of those things that raises eyebrows. It can be a bit Del Boy, Hell’s Angel, TOWIE or even Pretty Woman. The leather biker jacket is now a wardrobe staple but there is so much more to leather than outerwear. In fact, this season it’s all about leathering up your bottom half. And there are plenty of choices out there …
If you buy one jacket this season, make it the biker jacket
I have a leather jacket, a lovely leather jacket that I bought in Paris about seven years ago but it is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Why? Because it is collarless and therefore is now so far from right that I might as well be wearing a shell suit jacket (remember those? My mum and I had colour co-ordinating ones. The …