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Leather weather
Leather is back (again) – but not as you know it. The fashionable regular is making itself known as a wardrobe must-have, but this time around on the trend cycle it is reinvented as statement separates.
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Trendsetters tipped leather separates to be one of the defining looks of 2021, and the fashion forecast was spot on.
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Or, as the Independent’s Olivia Petter wrote after London Fashion Week, “Whatever we’re doing in autumn, designers say we’ll be doing it in leather.”
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Or, more specifically, in leather blazers, leather pants, leather tops and leather shorts in hues of black, tan, camel, cream and adorned with embellishments.
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But don’t let the term “separates” fool you, these separates are made to be worn together.
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Pair leather coats with leather pants, leather skirts with leather tops – and leather accessories with every/any thing.
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Or, mix with your favourite ribbed tanks and tees, cashmere and woollen sweaters, and floaty feminine blouses and frocks.
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