A clear cherry-red would have been a costly colour to achieve during the Middle Ages, and a red velvet gown would have been the mark of wealth and status
THE REVIEWS: "I wore this to my December baby shower
Give yourself four to six weeks, just so the hem can swing the way you want and the mirror stops feeling like a countdown to a rocket launch
Staged at the Val-de-Grce during Paris Fashion Week, the show felt like turning the crisp, heavy pages of a teenage diary, translating those nave compositions and happy accidents into a collection steeped in the romantic, yearning mood of coming-of-age cinema like The Virgin Suicides. The collection unfolded in a delicate, almost painterly palette of sand dune, coral, aquamarine, and blue mist
Use the button-down to lighten up an otherwise sober look by opting for a brighter example shade or keep things classic and dusty