From Night to Day: Lingerie-Inspired Dressing for Spring
Spring 2012 runway looks (from left): Jason Wu, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Proenza Schouler
This season, dreams about leaving the house in only your underwear or
addressing an audience in just your skivvies will not seem nightmarish:
Simply imagine those pieces are printed with Dolce & Gabbana’s red peppers, or a graphic design from Proenza Schouler.
With so many chic, pretty ways to wear bustiers, cropped tops, and
short-shorts this spring, unmentionables are anything but hush-hush,
and, if paired with suiting and simple staples, they can be appropriate
even in an office setting.
Rethinking lingerie-inspired pieces for daytime is a matter of
mindset: View these silhouettes and lengths as layering pieces rather
than items to be hidden. For instance, a pretty Prada ruffled bralet from the house’s hot-rod spring collection
is not designed to be worn under a sweater, or seen exclusively at the
beach, it is conceived for displaying under an open embellished jacket.
Of course, you can button up the Prada coat to reveal only a peek of
pastel silk; flaunting these pieces is possible without crossing into a
state of dishabille. “I don’t know when the bustier got a bad rap,” Moda
Operandi fashion director Roopal Patel says, advising
professional women to look at layering with lingerie as a new kind of
power dressing. “You can wear a blazer buttoned up and show just the
bustline of the bustier—that’s where the intrigue is,” Patel says.
Adding a lingerie layer can also bring a look seamlessly from day to
night: Simply remove the button-down shirt or a buttoned-up blazer and
wear the bustier with a statement necklace for a new approach to
evening.
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