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There are long skirts and there are long skirts and this is of the latter. This is an outfit I would actually wear, this is an outfit that I do actually wear. I wore it yesterday. I'm wearing it today. Let's be honest - I'm probably going to wear it tomorrow. Long, column-like black skirt, slightly mannish overcoat with colour upturned, simple buttoned top tucked slightly into the skirt. Coffee cup and hair in a top know optional - to be honest I'd prefer a bottle of vitamin water and my hair half up half down. What's not to like about this outfit? It creates all the illusion of long, sweeping lines without there ever being anything of the sort. As a short person you can wear this and let your skirt and coat do all the talking for you - even without heels you will seem taller, providing that you coat ends right at the knees and your skirt touches the ground. But it is also instant, immediate chic. Natalia Alaverdian from Harper's Russia is actually not wearing anything spectacular in the Anna Dello Russo sense of the word. But for me this outfit was instantly, heart-rushingly exciting, more so than the pictures of ADR, or Giovanna, or Catherine Baba, or any other fash maverick. This outfit is so strikingly simple that it becomes spectacular, without ever aiming to do so. And that is the point of minimal dressing. Because amidst all the severity of cut, the simplicity of silhouette, the brevity of line, there can be very, very, real fireworks.
Here's one right now.
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