What to Wear This Week, with Stefania and Kate from Editorialist
What do you ask yourself when getting dressed in the morning? Whether or not you’re inclined to admit the impetus of why you say what you do with the clothes that you wear, they make a statement — one that is ostensibly endorsed by their wearer — for the public to consume.
You make a choice about how you will present yourself, to wear a thing that will pick up slack where words might fail you, or conversely surprise your audience in the event that your words are doing exactly what they should be doing. It’s an intellectual choice whether you want to believe that or not, and anyone with a distinct sense of style — anyone — participates in the creation of it.
In today’s edition of What to Wear This Week, Stefania Allen and Kate Davidson Hudson, co-founders of the editorial commerce platform Editorialist, break down the mechanics of what they wear and why.
What are you thinking when you get dressed in the morning?
Stefania Allen: I’m just trying to get out the door. I typically go back to my favorite core pieces for day-to-day and style them differently with layers and accessories.
Kate Davidson Hudson: How I dress on any one morning is usually predicated on what I have scheduled for the day — whether I’m on set, running around to showroom appointments, or have in-office meetings.
Do you start from the shoes and work your way up, or clothes and then down?
SA: I start with the bottom half of my body and work around that decision. Is it a skirt day? Jean? Wide leg pant? Etc? That decision sets the tone for the type of shoe and so on and so forth.
KDH: I definitely cull inspiration from accessories and keep the rest of my wardrobe minimal and tonal.
You’ve got a day of meetings and then drinks with friends — what do you wear?
SA: For fall, it’s an oversized button down, cropped jacket, wide-leg pant, Giambatista Valli lace-up bootie, Chloé Faye bag, Anita Ko earcuff and a Paige Novick ear cuff.
KDH: My go-to-uniform is a pair of wide-leg Céline pants, a Miu Miu tee and a Balenciaga leather jacket.
Do you find that people take you less seriously when you’re dressed “fashiony”?
KDH: No less seriously than when they see I’m blonde.
You’ve both been pregnant! What did that do to your style?
SA: I found pregnancy to be a pretty surreal experience. Your body starts to change in ways you thought it never could. I am pretty petite so I found anything too baggy made me look a lot bigger and frumpy. I chose body-con silhouettes and lots of over the shoulder blazers to hide a few things ….
KDH: It forced me to rethink proportional dressing, so I pretty much dressed around the bump, meaning things cut above it or below it. And, I found that good body-con underpinnings were key to anchoring everything. Then you can artfully layer to change up your look from day-to-day with scarves, blazers and swapping-out accessories.
Foolproof styling trick?
SA: Things really do just look better with a heel.
KDH: A belt can be one of the best styling tricks in your toolbox. Use it to give boxy cuts a shape or to keep layered pieces in place and defined.
The one garment that never lets you down?
SA: A Céline leather jacket.
KDH: A Céline trench.
The one that always lets you down?
SA: Anything overly fussy.
KDH: My skinny jean.
Share your best shopping tip, pls!
SA: Editorialist.com, duh.
KDH: Keep your clothes, update your accessories.
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Photographed by Krista Anna Lewis
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