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This Charming Kate

Kate Sylvester Spring Summer 2010/2011 entitled ‘This Charming Man’ showed at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week in Sydney with a sexy librarian collection with prim looks with accents of tan leather…

Kate Sylvester Spring Summer 2010/2011 entitled ‘This Charming Man’ showed at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week in Sydney with a sexy librarian collection with prim looks with accents of tan leather.

Kate’s fantasy guest list ensemble drew on artists past and present for inspiration, as evidenced in her prose below.

I was walking down the road one day when I came across Morrissey in a billowy shirt.
"How charming" I said and we continued along together.
We came upon Scott Schuman photographing Alessandra Colombo.
"What a pretty boy you are" I said to her, so she came too.
Keats was busking on the corner. "Oh how swooney" I said and gathered him up.
Loulou de la Falaise was walking the dog. "What a well cut suit" I exclaimed
and along they came.
Proust was taking time to smell the roses. "Writer’s block" he groaned.
"Party" I smiled and he joined us trailing rose petals.
Prince Vinnie had his iPod cord tangled up in his camisole straps. "Never mind"
I said, "We need some music."
And then I saw God. "Please join my party God!" I exclaimed. "OK" said Chanel
and my collection was complete.

Kate Sylvester says the collection is all about; "Swooning poets, billowy shirts, innocent florals, army fatigues, two tone lingerie, redoute roses, tan leather, washed dupion, fob chains, 70’s A-lines, starched collars, 1/2 &1/2 dresses, flower camo, gentlemen’s cravats, bateau stripes, Satorialist boutonieres, Gucci loafers, aran knits, summer grey, and charming tomboys."

Below: overized white bows at the neck and fob chains on a white dress, buttonholes on a grey cardigan and short-shorts, and leather-meets-lingerie in a tan leather bomber with a ruffled skirt.

More tan leather looks:

High: We love this floral bodice fitted dress.

Low: Watch out for looking too "Nana" with some of the over-the-knee skirts and ditsy-pretty pieces; whilst on the very young and very beautiful they look amazing, especially styled up with the brogues, fob chains and button holes, on the less modelesque there’s an ever present danger of looking more librarian than sexy.


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