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ou’ll notice a cleaner, simpler, more sportswear-oriented sensibility
emerging this season (and well into next year). It’s a movement that we
applaud as everybody needs simple, workable (but not boring!) clothes
that can be mixed or matched at whim to deliver any number of looks.
A cornerstone of that sensibility is, of course, the jacket. Get that right and
everything else falls into place. So what exactly is ‘right’ for jackets now?
Something a little trimmer, shorter, slicker...and sometimes even shapelier, as
peplums still are in play for 2014 (though in a softer, subtler way, as shown
above). Even the classic ‘boyfriend’ jacket shapes up, looking fresher than ever
in soft blush-y pastel shades. It’s perfect to throw over your basic jeans (the
easier faded ‘boyfriend’ style shown here – the hems rolled up to show a bit of
ankle – was all over the most inl uential designer runways, such as in Marc
Jacobs’ i nal show for Louis Vuitton in Paris), or just about anything. More
slick tailoring from a New York legend on page 39.