I’m Surprised—Fashion Month’s Skirt Trend Turned My Head

Friends! The big idea coming out of fashion month thus far is skirts. Which I know sounds silly (like, Oh! Skirts! Groundbreaking, etc.), but they really have been everywhere. And as someone who is a noted pants lover but has been wanting to try more skirts for a while, it has really got me thinking. Mostly about how I’ll style them and what shoes I’ll wear with them, but also about how I could incorporate them into my wardrobe right now! After some sleuthing, here’s what I would add to my cart immediately.

Miuccia Prada showed a handful of leather pleated skirts at the Prada show this season, and what I loved about them was that they were paired with tough leather jackets or vests and worn with a chunky banana heel. Fantastic on the runway, but this shape feels like the easiest to wear with knee-high boots or loafers, personally, so that’s the move I’ll make over the next couple of months. I’ll also most likely have to hem said skirts to above the knee—something I always forget I can do and will make the shape more modern, less schoolmarm on me.