By Kate Bernard
Model Bruna del Bortoli wears an Akris dress and Graff ruby and white diamond hoop earrings. Photo by Andrés Oyuela; styling by Mariela Ortega.
Black tie but make it insouciant. It’s a wonderful word for an equally wonderful dress code; these days, who wants stiff formality? Here, flowy dresses from red hot Alexander McQueen and Gucci stand in complement to strappy and glitzy Chanel sandals or Bottega Veneta bags. Dazzle in pajama-esque Stella McCartney or turn classicism on its head with Golden Goose’s outsized velvet tuxedo jacket. If you are attending a black-tie soiree this holiday season, be sure to keep this style approach in mind: the old rules are gone, and the new parameters fall somewhere in the zone of elevated comfort meeting pure, unapologetic glamour.
