We Indulge In Wrap-top Pleasures

Let’s get entangled.

No button, zip or snap can match the seductive power of a tied bow. Once a detail resigned only to prima ballerinas now a casual-luxury of streetwear. Whether it is a decorative knot or a waist-cinching do-up, we’re craving high-shine, ribbon-esque silhouettes to wrap us like the most perfect gift. Given our modern taste for trousers, we’re opting for the classic wrap top to give a little gloss to our daytime line-up.

Where the 70s jersey wrap dress is empowering thanks to its versatile nature, the wrap top is a younger more sophisticated statement. Empowerment should be a given to all feminine creatures so now let’s work on feeling deserving of life’s most richest pleasures. Starting with soft, slinky textures (silk everything). These fabrics may be seemingly high-maintenance and saved for only the most high-brow occasions but by adding this new elegance to your daytime rotation you will be floating through those traffic honks and city sputters like a swan.

Everyone from Michelle Obama to Zoë Foster Blake is doing it in the daylight. Although tied fastenings produce an illusion of entanglement, it’s simplicity that is at the heart of this detail. Even the most hastily of tied bows looks polished. It’s the intelligent evolution in feminine style. Function meets sultry. About time the two joined forces. Compliment the upper-wear with an equally silken wide-leg pant plus a lush pair of pool slides or a shin-kissing flow skirt and a smart mule block heel – pointed just for contrast.

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New Zealand label Paris Georgia are all about putting the lustre back into our everyday demands. Essential women’s wear at its core. Luxuriously easy shapes and textures enlighten the wearer that the concept of a basic springs from how well it can be remixed. Their satin Alba top plays muse to our wrap top dreamings.

Another Georgia (O’Keefe) should also be pinned up on the moodboard when tying it all together. Her simultaneously masculine and feminine style is the essence of our spin on modernistic elegance. Her wardrobe was as refined yet equally beautiful as her art practice. A black flowing silhouette, regularly cinched at the waist, with just a glint of oriental silk. Even out in the southwest deserts of New Mexico (with the rattlesnakes and cowboys) her sculptural style continued to be practical and effortless yet very self-indulgent.

What’s ‘knot’ to love about this pursuit of pleasure in our ordinary lives. And the best part – as always – rather than the wrapping of the gift but the unravelling later behind closed doors where we swap one tie for another (utter bathrobe delight).