Oh, Fashion Weeks–we can’t live without you, yet you remain so very out of reach. Indeed, a typical Fashion Week circuit is best experienced with a propensity for blowing budgets and landing in debt. Not only are flights and tickets exorbitant, but to do it up right, you’re expected to stay in a comfortably located hotel rather than a mucky Airbnb room and catch cabs rather than take the stenching subway. What’s a non-1% girl to do?
Fret not, because Fashion Week style can be easily achieved without having to jet-set to Milan with a cadre of soon-to-be-maxed-out credit cards. And because the current “in” looks favor the casual over the fancy, you need not break the bank to mimic the most chic style stars.
Adopt the following tricks, and you’ll have pseudo-It Girl status in no time.
1. Go big or go home
A common look at Fashion Week, be it London, Paris or Melbourne, is voluminous skirts or huge, tent-like tops. These high-impact separates indicate that you’ll gladly sacrifice your body shape in the name of fashion. Just never pair them together, because then you’ll indicate that you’re also willing to sacrifice good sense.
2. Don’t be afraid of see-through
The see-through trick, demonstrated by blogger Natalie JoosThe see-through trick, demonstrated by blogger Natalie Joos
Tulle, lace, perforated fabrics, nylon and sheer chiffon are big hits among Fashion Week ladies, because being highly un-wearable and too complicated to pull off in everyday life signals real style. Wear a sheer skirt with a long sweater and show them how it’s done.
3. Get messy with your hair
Anna Wintour may be an exception, but a big Fashion Week trend is I-don’t-care hair, often tucked into a collar. Sure, this look is mostly advocated by models or angelic creatures like Miroslava Duma, but you can try it out, too. For best results, pair your uncombed mane with massive sunglasses.
4. Carry a clutch
Miroslava Duma looks great in a chic clutchMiroslava Duma looks great in a chic clutch
Comfy messenger bags? Not at Fashion Week! The most stylish guests prefer clutches, preferably if they’re big and heavily decorated. Yes, they’re uncomfortable, but they look so very sophisticated when paired with matching nail polish. A runner-up is the backpack, but unless you have, let it go.
5. Embrace comfort with (sophisticated) sneakers
Stilettos are out, sneakers (yes sneakers) are in. The funkier the better, and the best shoes boast high platforms (just avoid wedge sneakers, as they are beyond over). For summer, try Birkenstocks–they’re ugly-cute, comfy and undeniably still trendy.
Other Fashion Week faves include grey sweatshirts, denim dungarees, jackets as capes and round sunglasses in bright frames. Combine all or some of the above to achieve a ranging degree of It-ness. We believe in you!
THE MODEL AND ME: MOJO BEACH
Hello. It’s me. ANNOYING me on holidays. At the beach.
Does it help if you know that this post was written BEFORE we went on holidays? Good. Let’s go with that shall we?
I’m talking about shorts today. Specifically wearing shorts.
In Queensland there are some days that shorts are the only thing you can contemplate wearing – any longer in the pant and it all gets too hot and sticky.
So, despite not having super model legs, I’ve long embraced the short.
Just like with my swimwear, I got over myself and my perception that my legs weren’t somehow good enough to be encased in a pair of shorts.
My legs ARE good enough to enable me to do a yoga class or walk the hills where I live so that should be good enough for me. And I’ve decided it is.
If you’ve been following along with my #everydaystyle posts, you will have seen me wearing a different style of short this year. I’m a little obsessed by these from Country Road. By obsessed I mean I now own four of the available six colours (stylist note: buy down at least one size – they are very generous).
I love that they’re the opposite of my streamlined NYDJ shorts of the last couple of summers. They’re cooler to wear and just enable me to wear a variety of different tops that wouldn’t necessarily work with a streamlined short (on me).
The appeal of the loose and lovely short has now extended to this fun pair from independent label Mojo Beach – a label based in – and handmade in – Port Macquarie, New South Wales.
