A cocktail to revisit the button-down shirt this season:
1/4 of Italian sensuality,
1/4 of fast fashion
50% of your own sense of style
Think blue
When you say the blue shirt the collective imaginary says 'boring'. This season it's a re-birth, a joyful, sexy and playful one. Spruce it up from your man's closet, like Camille Charriere suggests in her interpretation of the man's shirt or reinterpret your own.
- with a leather mini-skirt and flat sandals
- with skinny black jeans and Gucci loafers
- fasten the first button and let the rest unbuttoned like at the Alexander Wang's runways
- wear it over a pair of skinny khakis
- buy a sophisticated, feminine painter's version like in Valentino's print ad
- bell bottom denim and heels
If you don't own a blue one, when you buy one just remember a few key points:
- it should be fitted,
- made of a delicate, soft and gauzy cotton, ideally chambray,
- the color should resemble a light denim blue.
The white essential shirt
Ok here is classics department. There's no limit to how many white shirts you must own. No less than three is a standard: fitted, button down and oversized.
- oversized over cropped khakis and slip-ons
- painter's shirt over denim shorts with Birks
- fitted raised collar and an high waisted long full skirt. here you can go flats or heels, chic as hell
- french collar, one extra button opened tucked in a pencil skirt and heels
- french collar, cuffed denim, penny loafers and car coat: a spring winner