Four Fashion Week Styling Tips From Friday

Fancy alliteration, huh? Here we go:

1. At CG, designer Chris Gelinas showed one hell of a beautiful garden party collection with one split paneled skirt in particular and a dress with second-sleeve straps that drooped on purpose, both of which made us reconsider ye old shrub sheers of yesteryear’s chores.

To do: Find the once-loved A-line skirt that now bores you to death plus anything with short sleeves and have at it (carefully) with a pair of scissors. Waiting for your tailor to open is no excuse to not execute this. Your closet, I promise, will thank you.

2. The Victorian Era was alive and well at Zimmermann — frilly and lacey as ever but somehow immediately easy to picture on the coolest of laid back girls.

To do: Take the wild-collared blouse you made (yes, made!) and then tuck it into the highest pair of skirted shorts you can find or own. For extra ruffles under your party pants, make like Creatures of Comfort and put on wide-legged shorts over that mini peasant skirt I know you still own from your past Abercrombie & Fitch days et voila: instant bloomers.

3. Keep your eyes on designer Sally LaPointe, whose collections not only get stronger and stronger but whose pieces are making spectators reconsider the basics, like a slip dress under a trench coat. Like Leandra wrote on Instagram: so simple, but somehow so new.

To do: Mix equal parts slip dress with trench coat, then exit house. For extra flavor put on high, high heels. If you like to burn the shit out of your mouth, then make the trench coat red.

4. In the absolute best way possible, Cushnie Et Ochs was Cushnie Et Ochs. Rather than bend to trends they face forward and march (stomp/werq) with the kind of command that two woman with a dedicated fan base and tenure in the industry are wont to do. If you had on one of those sexy, slinky no bullshit Cushnie dresses, wouldn’t you?

You would, so to do: Find a one-piece swimsuit with high-cut hip holes (check the 80s) and pair with lowwww-slung trousers.

Reasons to look forward to next spring? Check, check, check and check.

Images via Vogue Runway, NowFashion.com, and Instagram

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