How to Heat Up Even Your Sweetest Summer Looks
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The warmer weather brings with it plenty of challenges, sartorially speaking. In the season of sundresses and shorts, how best to bring some edge to your looks? We’ll be taking a cue from the myriad designers who proposed bold harnesses with their Fall collections. If the accessory’s more bondage-y visual connotations aren’t your bag, look no further than the asymmetric, sculptural straps at Lanvin or the thick, simply hewn pieces Consuelo Castiglioni’s arty Amazons were kitted out in at Marni. Anja Rubik has recently teamed her white button-downs with quietly fetish-y leather from Zana Bayne (without a doubt the biggest champion and pioneer of the body harness the industry has). See 13 ways to wear the look IRL below. We suspect they’re enough to bring out the Fifty Shadesside of damn near anyone.
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Among the tassels and fringe that made up Alber Elbaz’s elegant riff on nomadic style at Lanvin were these impossibly chic, asymmetric numbers.
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The coquettish dresses Giambattista Valli showed at little sister line Giamba were teamed with tough, grommeted harnesses that looked to be straight out of a leather bar, but were in fact inspired by infamous Parisian bon vivant Jacques de Bascher.
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Why should leather get to have all the fun? 3x1’s Scott Morrison dreams in denim, and so whipped up this cheeky take for the brand’s latest outing.
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An urban warrior on the runway at Nicholas K.
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Not your boyfriend’s flannel: For his take on grunge, Phillip Lim cinched his plaid dresses with a hardy, more homespun take on the harness.
By Kristin Anderson
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