Editor’s Note: Featuring the good, the dangerous and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is an everyday collection devoted to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the final seven days.
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At Chanel’s Paris Fashion Week present on Tuesday, South African singer Tyla arrived at the Grand Palais in a sizzling pink tweed mini skirt, a strapless bustier prime and matching jacket, paired with a dripping Y-shaped necklace that spelled “Chanel” out each horizontally and vertically. While many different present attendees together with musician Raye and actor Simone Ashley dutifully donned a bouclé skirt suit — one of the label’s signature types — there was no ignoring Tyla’s Barbie-coded model.
From the monogrammed gold “CC” buttons to the chain hem circling the backside of her prime, Tyla’s fuchsia three-piece was full of basic “Chanelisms” that harked back to what some regard as a extra distinctive period of the model. The lower and color echoed a tweed costume as soon as worn by Naomi Campbell for the home’s Spring-Summer 1994 present. “I wanted to feel like a classic rich Chanel girl,” Tyla advised Vogue.
On the runway, Chanel additionally reimagined its hallowed tweed skirt suit with bursts of tulle, floor-length hem-lines and necklines slashed off-the-shoulder.
Tyla’s ensemble was prim but playful — a balanced various to the prevailing “officecore” trend seen all through the Paris reveals. Stella McCartney staged her runway in an open-plan workplace with friends sitting at desks geared up with stationery, whereas Balenciaga took a extra pared-back strategy with its assortment of crumpled and moth-ravaged fits.
But if the thought of reaching for pinstripes and charcoal twill after 5 o’clock fills you with dread moderately than need, the daring skirt suit might provide a contented medium between our evident curiosity in additional structured tailoring with out the dedication of dressing like a “Severance” additional.
Consider the canary yellow iteration that Amanda Seyfried wore in New York on Monday — made edgier by a pair of blackout shades and knee-high leather-based boots. Or the Dalmatian print Versace variant Millie Bobby Brown wore on Tuesday throughout her “Today” present look. The printed two piece was styled with a black beret that perched atop Brown’s freshly bleached locks.
Tyla rounded off her vintage-style Chanel ensemble with a black mini bag and spiky cropped hair. While Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel is most remembered for popularizing women’s trousers, it’s value noting that her enduring contribution to the skirt suit is an in depth second.