Which made me twig: I am plain. I wear plain clothes, I hardly ever mix prints, and I love a good pair of jeans with a simple block colour tank top and a nice plain cardigan. Yet for some reason, Phillip Lim’s simple clothing was boring me. Why? This is the kind of stuff I wear. Yes, his clothes look incredibly made, and yes the models wear them elegantly, don’t get me wrong I’m not likening them to a tank top, but it got me to thinking as to why I didn’t get excited about them initially.
I am perfectly happy to buy plain clothes and I get excited about them in Topshop, but why weren’t they exciting me on the runway? If I saw them in Selfridges, I’d probably be swooning. I have been looking at everything else on the catwalk, as, I wouldn’t wear that, so why do I do the same with this?
Maybe it’s because a lot of it is cream. This sounds very daft, but I have only recently been able to buy myself creams and pastel and nude colours, as I just didn’t think they suited me before. I tend to suit bright colours, a bright pink (my favourite – don’t judge me), a bright yellow, or a bright blue. Now I am trying to shy away from those and buy the softer colours, the softer greys, the softer whites, the softer yellows (I would add pink to this list, but I suppose I’ve always bought the softer and the harsher versions of pink clothing…)
He does have some standout pieces, a nice pink ruffle shirt under a beige fur coat for A/W 2009 teamed with a pair of camel trousers, lace socks and gold strapped heels. That, I probably wouldn’t wear all together. But some of the other pieces, the ivory silk jumpsuit from the NY S/S 09 Collection, or the cream ruffle skirt, I would wear (if they suited my figure). So, after a bit of scouring, I can appreciate 3.1 Phillip Lim, I just didn’t know it to begin with!
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