The seven secrets that will guarantee you’re always well dressed
telegraph.co.uklast week’s Ralph Lauren show – his first in two years and the main reason I was there. Old school glamour was in abundant supply, and yet everyone exhaled that kind of effortless, pared back look which sums up New York style at its best, even if it’s the antithesis of the way those four patron saints of the city (Carrie Bradshaw and co) dress.How do they do it?
In two words: invisible grooming. Makeup, hair, nails… they’re all micromanaged so the chic New Yorker can look nonchalant and as if they’ve just nipped back from a beachy weekend in the Hamptons.
In two more words: chic simplicity. Every single person – on the Ralph Lauren catwalk and the front row, including Anna Wintour – was in black or white.
Except me. I didn’t get the memo, so I was in pale pink. Weirdly, I didn’t feel awkward because at least it was a trouser suit, the other New York stand-by.
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