Days roll into
The innerwear-as-outerwear look, and its close relative, sleep wearas-outerwear, is a trend that resurfaces from time to time, depending on the economy and the arrival of spring, unless of course you are Hugh Hefner or similarly hedonistic ladies who lounge, who luxuriate in silk robes all the time. Pajama dressing is particularly in vogue now, with patterned wide- leg pants and matching tops rolling out of bed on to the runways of Celine, Louis Vuitton and Stella McCartney. In the late ‘90s my take on this was to wear a vintage (read: thrift store) slip dress to class one day, paired with chunky clogs. I think my peg was Courtney Love. My professor asked me whether I had forgotten to put on my clothes. That was the end of that.
With Josie Natori’s new boutique Josie now open in Rustan’s, I might just give the look another go. The famed loungewear and lingerie designer has created a collection for younger women, those who can acceptably prance around in a lacy camisole and platform pumps. Her four muses for the launch are gals- about- town with successful multi- careers, women who look great in house clothes but probably don’t spend that much time at home. They styled their own looks for the evening, using intimates from the Indo- chine- inspired Josie line.
Chef and Philippine STAR columnist Stephanie Zubiri wore a teensy floral romper with a black blazer. “I mixed this with something masculine and structured,” she says. “The key with sleepwear is to mix soft and hard to make it