Sneaker Style
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| Sneaker envy… |
My latest blog post for the FT’s How To Spend It website talks about fancy trainers ‘sneaking into style’. Which as a lifelong sports shoe fanatic and champion of casual glamour, I’m delighted about. Posh sweatshirts, indigo jeans, luxe trainers – today,
I’m just a more upscale version of my 15-year-old self. I guess that’s what you call timeless style. Anyhow. This season’s most-wanted has been the fabulous Givenchy skater shoe (I prefer this pattern to the Céline animal print) and if I had Jenna Lyons’ bank account, I’d have a pair too. Interestingly, when I posted this image on Pinterest yesterday, Tiffany one of my loyal followers commented, ‘Not a fan of no-bra…even on Jenna.’ To be honest, I was far too busy admiring the fancy footwear to even notice her cleavage.
How do you feel about posh sneakers/trainers?
Discussion (25 Comments)
It can be a cheap sneaker (@WMM) but then they have to be pristine (Cons, Superga etc). In fact, I think the only way these streetwear pieces really work is when there's an equal mix of casual and glamour. IE, everything ironed, or hair properly coiffed, or a posh watch/lipstick, or the face of a 21-year-old. Once everything is creased and crumpled I thing it loses some (most) of the magic… No?
Agree with Disney – cheaper trainers are fine but everything else has to look pretty slick.
Agree with WMM. Lauren Hutton has rocked this look forever.
I'm a fan of simple styles in luxe fabrics, but the shoes just don't do it for me.oh there is just so much i don't like about this. the eyeglasses, no bra, the shoes. is this style? what does this say about me??? don't answer that.
OK pour les chaussures et le costume, mais non pour le décolleté que je n'aime pas du tout, du tout…
OK for shoes and suit, but not for the low neck, I like not at all, of the whole…
Totally love the look and I'd wear exactly the same – lots of classy navy and some bright trainers. I would, however, draw the line at the low cleavage – a bra and a t-shirt with a higher neckline (or should I say a neckline full stop) would be a far better choice I think… x
I agree with The Gardener's Cottage. This whole look is wrong on so many levels. I don't care how rich or thin you are. One of my major beefs, however, is with the glasses. Everyone is wearing them, and everyone who wears them looks as if they have a Groucho Marx nose. Why do people persist is wearing what's trendy, even when it looks terrible on them. Just shows how insecure even people like Ms. Lyons are.
I love the look, don't like the shoes one bit. A pair of tieups of some sort would do it for me. I wouldn't insert ballet flats either – if you're going for womanly menswear then take it all the way down to the foot.
Aro ( arm of the slightly weird Vialis Barcelona) does some gorgeous trainers.Im short: I love my Swedish clogs. I read somewhere they give you height without looking stupid. Even so I wouldnt wear either with this ensemble. Cute glasses though.
There is a good photo of Camilla wearing trainers on duty and I though she looked v cool in hers.I don't have a pair yet but am seriously thinking of them for the up coming season, where comfortable feet for me is a key to happiness. Xxxx
I don't have a pair yet but am seriously thinking of them for the up coming season, where comfortable feet for me is a key to happiness. Xxxx
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I'd immediately wear this outfit but with pumps… and a bra 😉
Annette | Lady of Style