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The one outfit you can wear to three different weddings, according to our Style Doctors
In this advice series, Telegraph fashion experts Lisa Armstrong and Stephen Doig answer readers' what-to-wear dilemmas. This week, they advise on dressing cleverly for weddings and brightening up a gloomy wardrobe. I've got three summer weddings coming up and I want to invest in one good outfit I can mix up and wear to all of them. Any ideas? – Lucy The three most versatile options here are a suit, co-ords or a coat-dress that you can wear over a matching dress or trousers. Let's start with the last. Lalage Beaumont (pronounced 'lallagy' with a hard 'g') is a London-based designer who makes everything in the UK. Coat-dresses seem to be a vanishing species, but she specialises in them. Find the right one and it's modern, youthful and sleek. Hers tend to be plain, pastel with dark trims that, if you don't want to go the whole hog with a matching dress, allow you to co-ordinate with a darker pair of trousers or skirt and top. With heels and a smart top-handle bag or clutch (which she also designs) it's an excellent way to go. Rixo also has a great knitted chevron-printed midi coat that allows for multiple co-ordinations. Linen blend blazer, £390 and linen trousers, £290, both Cefinn Trouser suits in a lovely summery shade are available at every price point, from Reiss, Jigsaw and Cefinn, all of whose tailoring is pretty decent for the price (Reiss also offers tailoring in its flagship stores), to Erdem. If you want to inject some romantic femininity, consider a ruffled silky blouse (Me+Em has a big range), or a trouser suit with some flattering contouring (check out The Fold). Tencel blend blouse, £195, Me+Em Or perhaps a cropped, tweed, Chanel-esque jacket. Again, they're available at all prices and I've seen women look a million dollars in ones from Cos. It's well worth changing cheap-looking, plastic buttons, though. You can find good-quality ones on eBay, often from Celine, Chanel and Saint Laurent – small change, huge difference. Team the jacket with contrasting wide trousers and an array of striking jewellery for each wedding. Zara is currently excelling with its costume jewellery. Then there are co-ords: plenty of those around, too, from the gorgeously flamboyant and patterned at La DoubleJ, where the aesthetic is 1960s Italian riviera, to Me+Em, which has some lovely lace blouses and matching skirts in bright orange or cerulean blue. You could wear them together or partner them with cream or navy. A partially white outfit is fine, but not head to toe. Finally, rental: for less than the price of one outfit, you could rent three showstoppers. Check out the sites mentioned above. – Lisa My wife says all my clothes are dark and gloomy, but I don't know where to start with colourful clothes for summer. Any suggestions? – Nicholas You're not the only guy who feels all at (Aegean) sea when the subject of bright clothes comes up, especially when a holiday looms. Men tend to spend their lives in more sombre tones – the identikit office uniform, the don't-have-to-think-about-it formula of white shirts and chinos on weekends. Summer's the time to lighten the mood, but the fear is often of looking deliberately 'wacky' in garish printed shirts and the like, and in knowing which colours go together. There's also – sorry, gentlemen – a certain strand of toxic masculinity that fears pastels and bright hues as girlish. I hate to break it to you, but the most powerful men of the 18th century showed their machismo by wearing pink. Let's start with your holiday shirt… If you're not keen on print as you worry you'll resemble an American dad straight out of The White Lotus, consider a great plain linen shirt in a rich colour such as rust or olive. There are some excellent options at Luca Faloni and Hackett, which look on point alongside a pair of dark (or, if you're particularly continental, white) trousers. Linen shirt, £130, Hackett Look to the culture of New England preppy that Ralph Lauren has mined over the years: a pair of sunny yellow tailored shorts with a white shirt, for example. Throw a cheery knit over your shoulders for extra Ivy League points. The subject of colourful tailoring is a tricky one. I'm all for Pierce Brosnan stepping out in an electric-pink suit, but it's not for everyone. If you've got something smart on the agenda – a wedding, say – and wearing greige or navy suiting feels too corporate, a suit in a subtle sage or cobalt blue can look fitting without being over the top. Mute everything else – white shirt, tan shoes – so that the suit is the standout. Suede shoes, £510, Tod's Another way to lighten up is with a pair of driving shoes or a pleasing sweater. Life is just too short to spend it shying from glorious (or even discreet) Technicolor. – Stephen In the lead photo, Lisa wears: Jacket, Lisa's own, Celine; Crinkled viscose dress, £570, Toteme; Sequin and suede sandals, £825, Jimmy Choo; Gold plated bangle set, £100, Sezane; All other jewellery Lisa's own. Stephen wears: Wool jacket, tuxedo trousers and crepe de chine silk shirt, price on request, Dolce & Gabbana; Patent-leather bow loafers, £850, Manolo Blahnik Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
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a day ago
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The one outfit you can wear to three different weddings, according to our Style Doctors
In this advice series, Telegraph fashion experts Lisa Armstrong and Stephen Doig answer readers' what-to-wear dilemmas. This week, they advise on dressing cleverly for weddings and brightening up a gloomy wardrobe. Dear Lisa, I've got three summer weddings coming up and I want to invest in one good outfit I can mix up and wear to all of them. Any ideas? – Lucy Dear Lucy, The three most versatile options here are a suit, co-ords or a coat-dress that you can wear over a matching dress or trousers. Let's start with the last. Lalage Beaumont (pronounced 'lallagy' with a hard 'g') is a London-based designer who makes everything in the UK. Coat-dresses seem to be a vanishing species, but she specialises in them. Find the right one and it's modern, youthful and sleek. Hers tend to be plain, pastel with dark trims that, if you don't want to go the whole hog with a matching dress, allow you to co-ordinate with a darker pair of trousers or skirt and top. With heels and a smart top-handle bag or clutch (which she also designs) it's an excellent way to go. Rixo also has a great knitted chevron-printed midi coat that allows for multiple co-ordinations. Linen blend blazer, £390 and linen trousers, £290, both Cefinn Trouser suits in a lovely summery shade are available at every price point, from Reiss, Jigsaw and Cefinn, all of whose tailoring is pretty decent for the price (Reiss also offers tailoring in its flagship stores), to Erdem. If you want to inject some romantic femininity, consider a ruffled silky blouse (Me+Em has a big range), or a trouser suit with some flattering contouring (check out The Fold). Tencel blend blouse, £195, Me+Em Or perhaps a cropped, tweed, Chanel-esque jacket. Again, they're available at all prices and I've seen women look a million dollars in ones from Cos. It's well worth changing cheap-looking, plastic buttons, though. You can find good-quality ones on eBay, often from Celine, Chanel and Saint Laurent – small change, huge difference. Team the jacket with contrasting wide trousers and an array of striking jewellery for each wedding. Zara is currently excelling with its costume jewellery. Then there are co-ords: plenty of those around, too, from the gorgeously flamboyant and patterned at La DoubleJ, where the aesthetic is 1960s Italian riviera, to Me+Em, which has some lovely lace blouses and matching skirts in bright orange or cerulean blue. You could wear them together or partner them with cream or navy. A partially white outfit is fine, but not head to toe. Finally, rental: for less than the price of one outfit, you could rent three showstoppers. Check out the sites mentioned above. – Lisa Dear Stephen, My wife says all my clothes are dark and gloomy, but I don't know where to start with colourful clothes for summer. Any suggestions? – Nicholas Dear Nicholas, You're not the only guy who feels all at (Aegean) sea when the subject of bright clothes comes up, especially when a holiday looms. Men tend to spend their lives in more sombre tones – the identikit office uniform, the don't-have-to-think-about-it formula of white shirts and chinos on weekends. Summer's the time to lighten the mood, but the fear is often of looking deliberately 'wacky' in garish printed shirts and the like, and in knowing which colours go together. There's also – sorry, gentlemen – a certain strand of toxic masculinity that fears pastels and bright hues as girlish. I hate to break it to you, but the most powerful men of the 18th century showed their machismo by wearing pink. Let's start with your holiday shirt… If you're not keen on print as you worry you'll resemble an American dad straight out of The White Lotus, consider a great plain linen shirt in a rich colour such as rust or olive. There are some excellent options at Luca Faloni and Hackett, which look on point alongside a pair of dark (or, if you're particularly continental, white) trousers. Linen shirt, £130, Hackett Look to the culture of New England preppy that Ralph Lauren has mined over the years: a pair of sunny yellow tailored shorts with a white shirt, for example. Throw a cheery knit over your shoulders for extra Ivy League points. The subject of colourful tailoring is a tricky one. I'm all for Pierce Brosnan stepping out in an electric-pink suit, but it's not for everyone. If you've got something smart on the agenda – a wedding, say – and wearing greige or navy suiting feels too corporate, a suit in a subtle sage or cobalt blue can look fitting without being over the top. Mute everything else – white shirt, tan shoes – so that the suit is the standout. Suede shoes, £510, Tod's Another way to lighten up is with a pair of driving shoes or a pleasing sweater. Life is just too short to spend it shying from glorious (or even discreet) Technicolor. – Stephen
Graziadaily
22-05-2025
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- Graziadaily
This Skirt Is So Good, It's Sold Out Three Times – Now It's Back In Stock
Sometimes, it's easy to predict that something is going to be a sell-out success. High street collaborations with designers, for instance – Anya Hindmarch x Uniqlo and Gap x Dôen are two which launched today – or an exciting new launch from one of the world's leading designers; case in point: Gucci's new Giglio bag. Then there are those items which come with a little less fanfare but which prove themselves to be the sorts of pieces which form the backbone of any good wardrobe. Cefinn's Sophia skirt is one such piece; it is so versatile and hard working (sartorially-speaking) that it has sold out three times already. Thankfully, it's now back in stock. If you're not familiar with Cefinn, it's the brainchild of Samantha Cameron, who was inspired by her own need for smart stylish clothes to aid a busy life. The result is a collection of great tailoring, pretty dresses and chic separates, all of which work for all kinds of eventualities. Since its launch in 2017, Cefinn has expanded to include more casual pieces, too, and has amassed a loyal following of women with diverse personal styles. First launched in autumn 2023, the Sophia skirt is a simple pleated midi skirt that has had to be restocked several times since. Worn by many women on Instagram, I think the reason it's been so popular is its quality. Available in multiple different colours, as well as denim, it sits on the waist and has box pleats which start just below the hips, making for the most flattering fit. It can be worn with tucked-in tees, crisp shirts or button-up knits; knee-high boots work well with it in autumn, while ballet pumps and sandals are perfect for summer. In short, this skirt is versatile, it can be dressed up or down and it works on all body shapes. No wonder, then, that it's been selling so well. While the denim Sophia skirt is only available in a few sizes now, the black, navy and cream versions are ready to shop. Be warned though, last time the cream skirt was restocked, it sold out in a matter of weeks. Given the prevalence of white skirts this summer, this seems like the perfect time to add one of the best to your wardrobe. If you're more of a colourful dresser, take note that Cefinn is launching the skirt in lavender, rust and dark green next month, all of which are shades suitable throughout the year. Make haste, these skirts won't be in stock for long. 1. Sophia Techni Voile Pleated Maxi Skirt - Cream 3. Sophia Techni Voile Pleated Maxi Skirt - Black 4. Sophia Techni Voile Pleated Maxi Skirt - Burnt Orange Hannah Banks-Walker is Grazia's head of fashion commerce. She has previously written for the likes of Harper's Bazaar, The Financial Times, Glamour, Stylist, The Telegraph, Red, i-D and The Pool on everything from fashion to curly hair (hi!) to the patriarchy. Not necessarily in that order. Find her on Instagram and Twitter . But please don't look for her MySpace profile, which until now was the last time she wrote about herself in the third person.
Telegraph
19-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Lisa Armstrong: How colour can revive your winter wardrobe
British winters might not seem very macho if you're from Ouzinkie or Omsk. But for those of us who live here, enough is enough. Even if we began the season by embracing cloud cover and repeating 'om' every time we lost a glove, by late February, we're over it, fanning the flames of resentment (something has to keep us warm) towards friends who post holiday pictures from Mustique on their public Instagram. Vulgar or what? While the fanning passes the time, there is a more constructive path to happiness. Did you know that every colour emits different electromagnetic waves? In fact, this is exactly why each colour is different? The sadness you feel when you see black is real. If you were lucky enough to go to the incredible Mark Rothko exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris last year, you will have experienced this for yourselves. All those happy-making oranges and pinks, tranquil blues… and the sob-inducing dark hues. So yes, all those annoying headlines about dopamine colours have some validity. Back to the Path of Happiness: it's really quite simple. Levitate your winter greys, blacks and browns with some colour. More specifically, soft, light shades that neither wash nor knock you out. Keep it close to your face for the most flattering results – the bottom half can still be darkish, to make finding the right shoes and tights easier. They can also be dark. Save the neons for later, when it's sunny and you have the psychological bandwidth to deal with all those bopping energy waves. For now, if you normally wear muted shades between November and May, focus on gentle brights that complement them. Start slowly by all means – for example layering with a dark shirt. The right shade is everything. With navy, that means orange, pumpkin, tan or the terracotta that clever Clare Waight Keller has introduced into her new collection for Uniqlo. Strong, but flattering on lots of complexions. If grey, a neutral, is your winter fallback, anything goes. Just find a hue that suits you. The shops are already going all out for baby blue. Cefinn has hit on a warmish iteration. Some other baby blues look tricky to wear, even if you're nine months old and can get away with most things. Just as important as shade is fabric. Fluff, gauze, cable knits, mohair, alpaca, cashmere and tweedy weaves all help diffuse colour. They'll keep you warm too, and that, obviously, is crucial. Let Gen Z manifest summeriness by wearing micro crop tops in February. This way, believe me, is better. Lisa wears Alpaca-blend cardigan (over shoulders), £200, Soeur. Merino wool cardigan, £225, John Smedley. Merino wool trousers, from a selection, Harris Wharf London. Suede and crystal shoes, £229, Pretty Ballerina s. Gold-plated earrings, £80, Shyla. Right hand: brass and pearl ring, £95, Sessun. Emerald cuff, £115, Edge of Ember. Aquamarine and labradorite bracelets, £280 each, Ruha. Gold-plated and pearl bracelet, £210, Giovanni Raspini. Left hand: smoky quartz ring, £500, Jean London. Gold-plated cuff, £500, Carolina de Barros
