For holiday 2011, the look is fabulously festive. Ring out the old and bring in the New Year with these easy style tips. A black tie event doesn’t require a black tie. However, the invitation does offer you an opportunity to use your imagination and sense of style.
In Geoffrey Beene’s holiday collection, new wing-collar shirts, traditionally associated with tuxedo attire, are now worn open, tieless and often topping black jeans. Beene’s banded-collar shirts with narrowly trimmed elitist satin are paired with an iridescent pant. These are carefree looks that are black-tie correct.
Shiny fabrics are polished to perfection in Beene’s party-time evening colors of French blue, mustard, aluminum, black and white. He doesn’t rule out traditional tuxedo attire for the big night. The eclectic designer offers a classic white pleated formal shirt with French cuffs and a wing collar that will make a fashion statement come 2011. For accessories, he prefers black links and studs, black and white bowties and a cummerbund with a Midas gold accent touch. Here’s where you can create a look with African prints of choice.
If black-tie isn’t on the social agenda for the millennium, Beene shows a holiday shirt collection that will take you from day into night. Timely textures include chintz-like sateen, black-filled diamond dobbies, iridescent blends and micro-modals that will take you right into spring 2011. His ever-changing palette is lighter in this group. Imagine frosty powder blue, heather gray, taupe and sage.
So whatever you’re doing New Year’s Eve, celebrate in a look that’s comfortable and know you’ll be perfectly dressed for the millennium, black tie or not.
