How To Wear Black and White

How To Wear Black and White
It never goes out of fashion, it just keeps being up-dated by designer after designer. But you don’t always want to dress in the designer’s vision; you want to personalise. So here’s a run down on how to wear black and white this season by merging different Australian designers. Plus celebrity inspirations.

This season, designers like KookaiMaison ScotchBless’ed Are the MeekRebecca ThompsonTrelise Cooper and Storm have all released separates that can be mixed and matched to your hearts content. With some celebrity inspired bags from Willow Blu too.

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Accessories & clothing by Kookai. Images courtesy of asos.com & lefashionblog.blogspot.com

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Accessories & clothing by Kookai. Images courtesy of (main) Bless’ed Are The Meek and fafsugar.com

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Accessories & shoes by Kookai. Image courtesy of justthedesign.tumblr.com

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Images courtesy of Storm. Clothing & Accessories by Kookai.

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Images courtesy of Storm. Clothing & accessories by Kookai. White shirt by Trelise Cooper.

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Main images from Storm. All other clothing & accessories from Kookai

Get the Celebrity Vibe

Here you’ll find pieces you can mix to get celebrity looks – such as Rhianna’s ‘Stella McCartney’ white crop top and skirt she almost wore to the Met Gala and Diane Kruger’s classy crop top with a black leather skirt.

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Black leather skirt from Bless’ed Are the Meek. White top & skirt from Kookai. Image courtesy of

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Sweater & black leather skirt form Bless’ed Are The Meek. Images courtesy of makeyouroenjeans.blogspot.com & rackandrouge.com

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Bags from Willow Blu. Clothing from Kookai.

Clothing by Trelise Cooper. Accessories by Kokkai. Image courtesy of zimbio.com

Clothing by Trelise Cooper. Accessories by Kookai. Image courtesy of zimbio.com

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Shirt from Trelise Cooper. Pants & boots from Kookai. Bag from Willow Blu. Image courtesy of dailycelebstyle.blogspot.com

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Clothing from Kookai and Trelise Cooper. Accessories from Kookai. Image courtesy of creativefashionglee.com

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Main picture from Bless’ed Are the Meek. Jacket and shoes from Kookai. Image courtesy of celebfashionfix.com

What I’m loving about this season’s black and white is the infinite combinations. Take some basics – leather jacket – black skinny jeans or leggings – ankle boots. Now add and mix it up. Kookai has a great range of under shirt / under sweater / wear alone basics in black, white, beige, navy, blue and red. So you can add a pop of colour, or keep with a minimal palette.

Trelise Cooper & Maison Scotch have fabulous shirts. Bless’ed Are The Meek has great sweaters, and so does Trelise Cooper & Storm. Slim cut, long line dresses or extra long t-shirts also look great over skinny jeans or leggings and under a leather jacket.

And there are soooo many options for a trans-seasonal black leather skirt – t-shirt, sweater, bomber jacket, shirt, tank…

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Skirt from Bless’ed Are The Meek. Jewellery from Kookai. Image courtesy of welovefashions.com

Top Ten Leather Biker Jackets

You can wear a biker jacket with jeans, skinnies, leggings, skirt, dress, evening wear – a good leather biker style jacket is very flexible – dress it, dress it down. Kookai, Maison Scotch, and Trelise Cooper all have a great range of leather biker jackets that will take you any where, any time. Check our Biker Chic Updated and see how SJP wears a leather biker jacket to a Gala Ball.

 

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Images courtesy of Maison Scotch, Trelise Cooper & Kookai. Kim Kardashian by V Magazine

Get Interior Designer Inspired

You can wear back and white together, separately, take celebrity inspiration but you can also take inspiration from how interior designers work with back and white. I’m loving the interior designer take on stripes and also adding mustard, red and baby blue – not all at the same time of course.

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Images courtesy of Rebecca Thompson & Trelise Cooper. Int. Design by Schappacher White Architecture

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Clothing from Rebecca Thompson, Trelise Cooper & Kookai. Shoes from Kookai. Int. Design by Atmosphere Interior Design

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Clothing from Trelise Cooper & Rebecca Thompson. Int. Design by Tyner Construction

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Clothing from Bless’ed Are The Meek, Rebecca Thompson & Trelise Cooper. Shoes from Kookai. Int. Design by California Home & Design

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Clothing from Trelise Cooper & Bless’ed Are The Meek. Shoes from Kookai. Int. Design by Tara Seawright

How will you interpret black and white this season? Which looks are you favourite?