How To: Master The “Business Formal” Trend
From turned-up-collars to power suits and plaid, turn down the volume on red carpet style
Style arbiter Mohammed Sultan Al Habtoor casts his discerning eye over this month’s chic set; that includes suits, coats and jackets on our Red Carpet A-listers.
Ahead, five ways to wear the effortless trend from the fashion’s biggest trend-setters…
Charlize Theron is so iconic and effortless in Dior, showing us a new level of red carpet dress-down power.
Hats off to Lady Gaga in Marc Jacobs for making over-sized look so graceful and simple. Her choice is a simple statement of cool, fragile masculinity.
Hollywood glamazon Jennifer Lopez gives good glamour game with this contemporary bow-constructed Toni Maticevski dress. So on point.
Vanessa Hudgens look is bohemain chic but with an air of extreme easy-breezy elegance. I like how this look is put together using the same caramel tones, without any exaggerations.
Algerian model and TV star Nabilla Benattia dishes out a lesson in masculine/feminine glamour with a classic red Valentino dress that’s toughened up with a Balenciaga leather bomber jacket – sometimes the stronger the contrast, the more devastingly-divine the effects.
From the November 2018 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Arabia
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Charlize Theron in Dior
Lady Gaga in Marc Jacobs
Jennifer Lopez in Maticevski
Vanessa Hudgens in Alberta Ferretti
Nabilla Benattia in Valentino