Saturday 10 March 2012

New York Fashion Week AW 2012...Preetma


I ♥ American Vogue's Preetma Singh in a big way.

Ex-lawyer, now Fashion Editorial Assistant at Vogue.....and wearer of her old Princeton University sweatshirt 'cos she was cold and needed something to keep her warm. Genius. I adore this look (so great with the crocodile-print patent leather skirt and knee high boots - elegant, faintly s*xy and sporty all at once) and it works even if you don't have an Ivy League sweatshirt like Preetma's. Got an old school or college sweatshirt lurking at the back of your wardrobe*? Pull it out and try teaming it with a leather pencil skirt (I think it would work quite well with a flippy leather skirt as well).

Preetma also has a blog, The Working Girl, Esq, which you can find here.

Recreate Preetma's Look (kind of):

Marc Jacobs croc print patent leather pencil skirt or Tibi leather pencil skirt

*Although probably a sweatshirt with a zillion signatures all over it proclaiming just how much your classmates will miss you/love you is probably best left in the back of the wardrobe ;)

11 comments:

  1. Yes, this is genius! I saw her on another blog during NYFW and just loved it. Great juxtaposition of high and low in the Princeton sweatshirt and the leather pencil skirt/boots.

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  2. love it!

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  3. @Lauren - I know! How cool is that sweatshirt and you are right - it is a brilliant play on proportions. I didn't notice that (or perhaps I did but couldn't articulate it) so thanks Lauren for pointing it out.

    @Nyrha- me too!

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  4. I love this pairing with the sweatshirt and skirt! Never would have thought of it before but she wears it beautifully :)

    AwayFromTheBlue.blogspot.com.au

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  5. Great look! I am totally lusting over her style AND career :-). I'll have to check out her blog!

    www.orangecoloureddays.blogspot.com

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  6. Not sure about that sweatshirt + glitter skirt & shoes :/

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  7. Lovin the difference in those pieces shes put together, beautiful

    http://astronuautsofstyle.blogspot.com/

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  8. @StreetLounge - it is probably the light that was coming in and hitting the skirt (and the particular way that I took the photo) that makes it look a bit more shiny than it was. I promise there was no glitter involved!

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  9. I like the skirt! And what a career!

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