BLACKBURN AND SWEETZER

Seeing a woman look this chic in a leather skirt or pants always makes me nostalgic for Paris, where at twenty I was stunned at my longing for black leather, and not solely in the form of a jacket or handbag. This ensemble is from Rag & Bone - a High-Waist Leather Skirt with slit pockets and seaming up the front and a cummerbund effect at the waist ($698, neimanmarcus.com) and an asphalt gray silk georgette Wrap-Neck Blouse with button cuffs ($240, neimanmarcus.com). The model’s blunt bangs make me nostalgic for bangs, but no, I will resist that temptation, which inevitably ends in a whole annoying growing-out situation…