This isn’t a question I’ve considered before.
If you take the stripes out of my closet, I probably own about three things that aren’t solid. But on my last day in Doha, we were hitting five different places before the airport so my dad suggested, “Dress nicely.”
I pulled an orange and gold polka dotted Lauren Moffatt skirt and a navy blue and white striped American Apparel tee from the top of my packed suitcase. “What is going on there?” asked my sister.
I love it when designers mix patterns on the runway Рstripes and florals at Dries Van Noten, plaid and brocade at Commes des Garçons, zebra and stripes at Brian Reyes, leopard and polka dots at Dolce Рbut on me, on a real person off the runway, how does it work?
Is there a trick, other than a 6′ frame, to making the mix look more chic than crazy?