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The Denim Edit

Denim is a cut. If both legs and the jacket are shouting, take one of them off.

The Denim Edit — the ESVRA Fashion edit
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Denim is a cut. If both legs and the jacket are shouting, take one of them off. The live edit is built from The Row, Toteme, Saint Laurent, Khaite, La Ligne, Bottega Veneta. That is the only reason these pieces sit in one file. It is not a reason to wear three of them in one look.

Fashion keeps selling a whole look. This page is the opposite: one piece that can stand next to navy, a jean that still looks like a jean, a shoe you can walk in. The rest of the wardrobe should already exist.

The mistake is treating the theme as a personality. Every piece from the same story, the same colour, the same texture, as if the reader needed a costume to understand the edit. One piece. Then stop. Repeat it until it looks like yours.

Buy the investment if you will wear it more than three times. Buy the quieter price if the cut is still a house. Do not buy both in the same week because the photograph was good.

The test is Tuesday. If it only works in a caption, it is not a classic and it is not quiet and it is not worth the money. If you took the trend word off the page, would the cut still be worth it. That is the only question this edit is for.

Mine is the The Row Fima and a white shirt. I do not add a second wash. That is the whole rule.

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✦ From the Editor

Mine is the The Row Fima and a white shirt. I do not add a second wash.— K.W., Editor-in-Chief

✦ How to Wear It
The day

One piece from the edit. The rest already in the wardrobe.

The evening

The same piece. Less jewellery. A walkable shoe.

The city

Jacket on in the car. Off when the piece is ready.

Leave it

The whole look performing at once. That is a costume.

✦ If You Only Buy One
The one
The straight dark jean you will wear twice a week.
The investment
The pair with a house on the tag — The Row, Khaite, or Toteme if they sit in the list.
The quieter price
A named cut at a quieter price — still denim, not a mall wash.
The Wide Leg

The Row, Khaite, Toteme and La Ligne.

Khaite Farley

Khaite Farley. House jean. Treat it like tailoring.

Toteme wide-leg

Toteme wide-leg. Full. Cropped jacket.

The Row Finbar

The Row Finbar. First Finbar.

La Ligne wide-leg

La Ligne wide-leg. Volume. Simple top.

La Ligne Cool

La Ligne Cool. Named. One La Ligne.

The Row Finbar

The Row Finbar again. Keep one Finbar.

Toteme Garderob

Toteme Garderob. The quiet Toteme.

The Straight Leg

The Row and Toteme.

The Row Fima

The Row Fima. Straight. Dark. This is the jean.

The Row Vita

The Row Vita. Same house, different last. Pick Fima or Vita.

Daciana

Daciana. One rise. Shirt that is not also denim.

Joan

Joan. Classic length. Leather shoe.

Effie

Effie. First Effie. The one you repeat.

Second Effie

Second Effie. Same name. One is enough.

Toteme straight

Toteme straight. The modern straight.

The Row Lesley

The Row Lesley. Another Row jean. You do not need three.

Shop the Look

The Denim Edit

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The High-Rise

Bottega Veneta, Saint Laurent and Toteme.

Toteme high-rise

Toteme high-rise. Waist first.

high-rise

High-rise. Simple. Belt optional.

Tilda

Tilda. Soft. Still a jean.

The Slim Leg

Bottega Veneta, Saint Laurent and Toteme.

Boy

Boy. Straight enough. Not a costume boyfriend.

Romeo

Romeo. Named. White shirt.

Roy

Roy. Workwear instinct. Fine knit.

Bonnie

Bonnie. Straight enough for town.

Kerrie

Kerrie. Hem that can take a loafer.

Bottega Veneta slim-leg

Bottega Veneta slim-leg. Leather house, denim cut.

Fargo

Fargo. Named cut. Not a fashion wash.

Booker

Booker. Wear it twice a week or leave it.

Lorimer

Lorimer. City jean. No embroidered pocket.

Saint Laurent pair

Saint Laurent pair. Sharp denim. Black shoe.

Everyday

Everyday. The name is the instruction.

The Dark Wash

The Row.

The Row blue

The Row blue. Wash once. Not a gallery of blues.

The Houses

The Designers in this Edit

The Row Toteme Saint Laurent Khaite La Ligne Bottega Veneta