Lessons in Chic: 35 Couture Fashion Week Street Style Looks
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Style Notes: Flasher-macs aren't all bad, you know. This belted sky-blue number looks rather sophisticated on Candela Novembre when worn with Chanel sling-backs.
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Style Notes: Pop on a panama hat and bring your city look a little holiday-ready sunshine.
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Style Notes: Yet further proof that dark floral dresses are a sound investment—you can wear them layered and with ankle boots whenever the weather takes a bad turn.
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Style Notes: Offset the girlishness of a ruffled off-the-shoulder top with a bad-ass bomber jacket and black tailored trousers. Applause for fashion buyer Tiffany Hsu, please.
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Style Notes: Carine Roitfeld loves a kinky combination, and her patent skirt suit, bondage belt, fishnet tights and lace-up shoes certainly fulfills. A demure knit balances the look out.
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Style Notes: Lucky Elena Perminova has scooped up Miu Miu's bag of the moment, the Dahlia Shoulder Bag (£1320).
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Style Notes: This is all about dramatic proportions: BIG dress, teeny weeny bag.
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Style Notes: Miroslava Duma's party skirt meets business attire with a checked blazer.
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Style Notes: Wearing her own line, Gilda Ambrosio has added a netted layer underneath the Attico Envers Satin and Velvet Geometric Dress (£1036) and made it more daytime-appropriate.
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Style Notes: These billowing chiffon dresses are having quite a moment, but it's the unusual baby blue and lipstick red combination here that really catches the eye.
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Style Notes: Avoid looking too matchy-matchy on a strict colour palette by injecting plenty of texture.
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Style Notes: Pajama-dressing is going nowhere—so inject a little modernity via a choker necklace or two.
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Style Notes: It's not just off-duty-models who love biker jackets, denim miniskirts and sneakers—but they are very good at wearing them together.
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Style Notes: What's new pussycat? Candela Novembre has definitely clocked the trend for kitty motifs and prints with her Stella McCartney skirt.
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Style Notes: The '70s safari jacket makes a softer comeback in Elena Perminova's muted ensemble. P.S. That Dior backpack is totally cute.
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Style Notes: In true Olivia Palermo style, this is a perfect print-clash. The Schiaparelli jacket, Zara top and Chelsea28 trousers work in harmony thanks to a black-and-white base palette.
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Style Notes: Ulyana Sergeenko's mannish tailoring looks dramatic when pair with the wide-brimmed hat, red lipstick and drop earrings.
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Style Notes: Chiara Ferragni's Gucci loafers and a pair of nerdy frames ground this floaty babydoll dress.
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Style Notes: Standing out from the pastel-clad crowd, Lauren Santo Domingo strikes a bright chord in this beautiful floral dress.
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Style Notes: Another take on an increasingly popular trend—the white suit. The disco-ready gem embellishment puts this firmly in the couture realm of daywear.
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Style Notes: Oh, hello Jourdan Dunn! Here she is looking rather gorgeous in Ralph & Russo.
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Style Notes: Lauren Remington-Platt's doing a very convincing 1960s go-go girl thing in those knee boots with bare legs.
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Style Notes: Nausheen Shah's artfully draped and folded top has us swooning.
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Style Notes: Have you noticed the Beyoncé Lemonade effect on the streets too? Everyone's wearing this hue.
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Style Notes: Designer Vika Gazinskaya punctuates her pastels with a shocking dash of Aquazzura red shoes.
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Style Notes: Yes, the front of an outfit should make an impact, but never underestimate a great exit.
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Style Notes: Doina Ciobanu's mix of ladylike and sporty makes for a laid-back but very lovely look.
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Style Notes: Giorgia Tordini's wearing a robe from Attico, her own label (set up with fellow fashion girl Gilda Ambrosio).
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Style Notes: Giovanna Battaglia's ensemble is a textural feast. Anyone else want to feel that skirt?
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Style Notes: Who doesn't love a pre-layered dress? It does all the hard work for you.
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Style Notes: Leopard print doesn't have to be garish—this subtle, red dress is a very good example of doing the pattern in a grown-up way.
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Style Notes: Giovanna Battaglia's fit-and-flare dress looks like something out of a 1950s movie. She's modernised it with jumbo sunglasses and pointed shoes.
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Style Notes: This is a perfect example of the elevated sportswear idea—just look at the incredible craftsmanship on that Dior coat.
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