Fashion statements

January 4, 2011 - 10:00 AM by

Just saw this and it made me “LOL.”

In the latest batch of American magazines to make it to my coffee table, courtesy of my lovely visiting cousins, the November issue of InStyle looked at the current favorites of Givenchy creative director Riccardo Tisci. Clearly a style setter, although “never one to bow to tradition,” writes InStyle. So what does Mr. Tisci choose, besides a perfect white shirt and cotton poplin skirt? His cotton gabardine pants with attached skirt, priced at $680 and available at Neiman Marcus.

He says, “A skirt? Yes. Trousers? Yes, also. I like the masculine and feminine elements.”

I’m thinking that Mr. Tisci must have made a trip to Jerusalem, perhaps even Petach Tikva, where the pants with short skirt on top is a fave among certain women of the religious skirt, who need the skirt but want their pants too. That said, it’s not just for the religious world, just like harem pants — known here as Aladdin pants — were first a fashion statement and then an easy skirt-pant solution for the religious set.

But it’s definitely amusing that what is sometimes seen as an awkward combo here is now a trend being set by a French haute couture house. Now if only he could find a name for the pant-skirt.

Tags: , • Category: design, General, Israeliness, Religion 

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  1. Trinny and Susannah did Israel | ISRAELITY on Tue, Mar 22nd 2011 10:17 AM

    2. [...] offset it with a sleeveless t-shirt to ensure that I’m not seen as a woman who only wears skirts for religious reasons. And I identify as an observant [...]

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