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...There is a risk with some shirt-dresses — especially fitted, waisted styles — of looking a little too prim....
...Or as Hillary Taymour of New York brand Collina Strada puts it: “A sexy rock star who doesn’t give a . . . ” Taymour’s collections always err on the vibrant, more-is-more side, and this season she included...
...Long jersey dresses — a trend this fashion week — also appeared at newcomer Standing Ground, in sexy versions at Supriya Lele, and at Tove alongside minimalist collarless suiting....
...Around them walked models in short dresses stitched entirely from embroidered flowers, pomegranates and leaves, followed by dresses printed or laser cut with baroque mermaids and baggy faded jeans — clothes...
...It was jet set, sexy, streamlined. Which is perhaps what the top brass at Estée and Zegna wanted....
...“Everything that I was illustrating was these sexy croquis [quick sketches of fashion figures] walking dogs in the street....
...As other designers lean into the sexy and the sheer, this season she dressed her models as life-sized Barbies in ‘60s-ish pastel suits with matching pumps and bags and Medusa-stamped hair bows....
...He and Zoe Latta refined their gender-fluid uniform of interesting and sexy staples, such as pieced-together T-shirts and wide-leg trousers, and shifted more of their experimental energy into new production...
...– have made her a fashion-industry darling, and spearheaded today’s revival of sexy dressing, a mantle she modestly dismisses....
...“That era was so sexy, empowering, elegant. A defining moment for the house; game-changing for fashion.”...
...She dressed in a very sexy way, short skirts . . . She stood out in a crowd.”...
...But there was a pared-back quality to elegant washed silk kaftan and cape dresses and slip dresses knotted and draped around the body....
...She loves the green sequin dress she wore for HTSI’s shoot: “It’s sexy.” In fact, she says, “I always have an effect when I wear Julie de Libran… Men love it. There’s kind of an old-school chic....
...“There’s often a tension within fashion, like mixing a marina with a suit, which is quite interesting and sexy.”...
...She possessed a low-key glamour and exuded a confidence that convinced me gangly brunettes could be sexy too....
...The skimpy, zig-zag-print dresses and mini skirts of Grazioli’s first collection gave way to more formal, textural outerwear and knit dresses that put Missoni’s legendary facility with wovens on display....
...“My customer wants to be sexy,” she continues. “I want to be sexy right now . . . I’m confident in who I am and I don’t want to bury myself under clothes, like maybe I did a few years ago.”...
...Meanwhile, the Albanian designer Nensi Dojaka has channelled her training in lingerie to create a cult brand of sheer, sexy and seductive evening dresses....
...Often, when I’m making my paintings, I’ll feel inspired to make some dresses for myself based on the colours that I’m using....
...Customers might also be surprised to see Prantera’s more sensual women’s designs – sexy lacy bodysuits (from £115), tie-dyed slip dresses (from £115) and drill camo bra tops (from £275)....
...Or the sleek round-neck cardigans Grace Kelly used in lieu of a jacket over her collared shirts and shirt dresses?...
...Paired with baby-doll dresses, peroxide blond hair and slashed red lipstick, Mary Janes became a tool of the post-feminist empowerment agenda....
...Some of her dresses are starched: a tradition that Scott likens to “plastic covers on the couches”, protecting from wear and tear....
...I’m plumping for these slinky, sexy ones with cropped-length bottoms in a japonaiserie-inspired print that I adore. asceno.com Quadro astratto realizzato a Roma nel mese di Gennaio, 2020, by Gianni Politi...
...We need a dress to help us feel beautiful, sexy or even ladylike. And certain dresses emerge that really do this.” The best of these, she says, act “like a sort of shield”....
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