Closet Confessions: How To Style Wardrobe Essentials | Fashion Haul |Trinny

Hi Trini. Hello Lucy. What's today about? Closet Confessions today is about my wardrobe essentials. Oh. These are the basics I need to build my wardrobe with. That's what I would say. So if you were starting from scratch. Yeah. These are the things you'd go and buy. Yes that's so true. If everything's lost in a fire this is what I'd have to buy to build up my wardrobe. Okay. All right so should I just go through? Just start. Okay I'm gonna start with a white coat and a white coat is something that I wear summer or winter. This is a Zara one so it's a winter weight and I can wear it over black, over white, over colour but there's a freshness and a life to it. So I never years ago would do dark and light but it just gives you that va va voom coming into a room without it being a colour. So people who are scared of colour could consider white and people who don't suit white could consider wearing dark underneath it. Easy peasy. Yes. When you go on the tube I stand. It's not something to wear on a dirty commute but it's definitely something that always makes me feel I'm fully dressed. Then I would say a coat that is in your best colour. So when I'm going to put this on I'm going to put it on with white because I'd sort of always wear it with white. A white shirt in a wardrobe is key. I'm using this now to go over my favourite coloured coat. So whenever I'm feeling rather tired I will wear this coat and I will build the outfit up underneath it because I know this coat will give colour. So days you're washing out you can't afford to put makeup on then that is actually going to give you the colour in your face. You can just see immediately it makes my eyes bluer. Yeah. It makes my skin tone good and you most of us I think know the colour that suits us the most. It's a very intuitive thing. Some people when they feel a bit flat they will reach for black but those of you who have colour in your wardrobe there will be that colour that you think it makes me happy. Yes. That's usually the colour that suits us the most. What's your colour for that? Corally pink. Corally pink. Fantastic. Another coat, I mean there are five coats here, is a bright coat. A coat that says I've arrived. That's different from white because white isn't a colour and this is quite a new acquisition of mine from River Island. I've worn it quite a lot. This is nearly an indoor outdoor coat because I took off the little popper that was on this part of it and I think as soon as you remove buttons from a coat Lucy it gives it more of an indoor outdoor feel as we're so cold right now. I wouldn't necessarily wear it with black because you know I'm funny about black and colour. It kills it. It kills it but I'd wear it with denim so shoot me this way up. And I'll wear it with bright pink, I'll wear it with yellow, I'll wear it with turquoise and I'll wear it with white. I think a part of dressing for me is can I walk in a room and give other people a sense of joy? Yes. And think about that. I think you do. I know but I want the ladies out there to think about that because I feel the best thing we can do is to dress primarily for ourselves and to enhance our mood or to get to a better mood. Yes. But the secondary thing which will also feed back into you is dressing for other people so that they feel the reflection of how they see it reflects back into fill your heart. Yeah. What's next? What's next? My everyday default dark colour coat is either grey or navy from Celine. I love grey. I think grey is a colour that so many people and you can just get variations from dove to charcoal but it's a neutral and when you wear it with white it's very fresh and I can wear it with white and black so that kind of look for me that is classics. Yeah. But stylish classics. Uh-huh. We can have tired classics in fabrications that don't hold their longevity in your wardrobe and we you know all these classics are quite well structured so they can deal with being squished up. They don't lose their freshness after a few years and so therefore to me they're real investment pieces. Okay a navy blazer. Navy blazer. Whenever I wear this navy blazer many of you say oh where can I get a navy blazer? You've got to find designers who love navy like Stella McCartney loves navy actually. So follow a designer who loves navy. Look at best year collective. Look in the sales. You know buying into designer is expensive so think of you know a few years ago who might have had one. Blazers rarely look old-fashioned. Yeah. Um there are one two or three buttons. I think three buttons to me are early 90s type of blazers. I would never buy one secondhand three buttons but I'd buy one and two buttons. This one is from Zara. I bought it god I bought it probably seven or seven or eight or nine years ago. Yep. And uh I think what I love is the the blue is a beautiful blue. It's a kind of blue also that you can wear with black. It's got a little bit something extra to it. It has this sort of slight fluffiness. I've shown this to you I think when we did the jackets one. It's really cool and it's got a good shape. It's not too long. It just sits comfortably um and whenever I wear it I get a compliment on it. Uh-huh. So I know it works as a as a structure. Yes. I'm going to go to the most obvious which is a sequin blazer and I'm actually going to show it to you with black underneath because I always show it with a white shirt. Yeah. But it's just interesting to see in black. I like the shoulder because it keeps my shoulder strong and the further it goes out then the narrower the hips look. So if you are somebody who's pear-shaped a structured shoulder that goes out is your best friend. The sequin one even though I'm wearing it with black like this adds the reflection in your face. Um this to me I can do day to night. I could do a pair of black jeans with this and I could wear it during the daytime with a black gilet on top and at night I could wear some sort of pretty you know white shirt. Yeah. But you know I like that with black. We haven't shown that before with black have we? No it's good. It's good because of the black end of the sequin. Yeah exactly it has a little bit of black in it. When I need to be glamorous really glamorous. I want that coat to be a statement and this I got from Osman in the sample sale. It's £110. I wore it for a shoot for the Telegraph and at the time it was £2,000. I thought never I've lost the belt and some lovely lady sent me some fabric quite similar which is somewhere in my office. I mean can I just say if you're watching this I can't thank you enough. I have yet to make it but it's it's somewhere. This to me ticks the boxes of practical and it's not going to get dirty. Reflects everything. Comfortable. You just said there that you got that from a sample sale. Yes I did. How can people find out about sample sales? Well there's sample sales have sort of friends and family sales but many sample sales are held in London in a place called the Music Room. So like Shrimp will be there, Alice Temperley will be there and your Hein March probably is there. So you could either email all of the companies that you love and just say when is your sample sale please. I love your collection but I can't afford it. And most sample sales are open to good customers but also to the general public. Yeah. So that's the best way I'll consider doing it. What you have to remember in sample sales Lucy sometimes what they're putting in is things that haven't sold so they're not to me classics. Yes. They're kind of extravagant madness. Right. And I've made a few mistakes in that instance. Okay. A white little jacket. This white jacket I got from Zara and I think what was just fantastic about it again was the cut. It's a little two button jacket but it has a little echo of a Balenciaga. It does it quite tightly here. It's really good when you want to have an amazingly enhanced waist. Yeah. And for those women watching who aren't my shape who maybe are a curvy hourglass with a short waist I would buy this and maybe a bit of a tummy. I'd buy a jacket like this and if it fits you in the arm don't do it up but use that exaggerated waistline to give you more of a waist from the back and to give you that sense of shape. Whilst we're here Violetta is another brand of Mango and they do larger size quite stylish clothing. I always forget to remember to say them but for those of you watching it now are saying I love all these things but this is Zara and I'm above a size 14 so 16. Consider Violetta. Okay. Yeah. A black dress. I got this and I've worn it with a black coat but I think everyone should have a black dress not just for the sense of a funeral but just to have something when you want that really chic. You know I think there are not many women who don't love Audrey Hepburn's LBD you know Breakfast at Tiffany's but to me a black round neck shift dress is not my best dress. So look at your black dress being the best shaped dress you could ever dream of and if you find it that's the dress to wear. So this dress is really fitted on my waist it has a fluted sleeve which gives drama away from my silhouette and makes my silhouette even more pronounced in the best way. It's round necked because I'm not good at a v-neck but it shows off my waist which gives it its sexiness and the bottom is flop soft and floppy and it's the right length that I could wear a boot or a high-heeled wedge or even a stiletto. Yeah I love this dress. It's a it's a I want to copy this dress. Sorry Solas I would love you to make this dress in navy. Oh I'd like you to do it in navy compared to a wedding. Yes okay fine well I'll get the mask. Now um a bright trouser suit. I just think the benefit of a good trouser suit is that you could wear these as two separates equally successfully as together so there's a great multi-purposeness it's like our lip to cheek or our sheer shimmer there's a multi-purposeness about purchasing it. My yellow trouser suit from Zara I probably worn more than any other trouser suit um and it's got a really nice shaped leg I wear it with a white pair of trainers it sort of goes in and goes out this is one of my favorite um leg shapes because it's slightly it doesn't cling me under the bottom but it goes in a little bit at the knee it's wide enough to have a trainer but it doesn't break the fabric at the end and it's I can wear it with a white t-shirt in the summer and a white coat and then I can wear it as a suit in the winter or in the spring or in the autumn or any time with a white shirt um the jacket I will wear on its own with a pair of blue jeans and a white t-shirt yeah but it's just it's a very very happy suit it's obviously in Trini London yellow. A co-ord. The life of the co-ord is one which people might associate originally with pajamas it's kind of think of silk pajamas and put a button on the top um and co-ords have been incredibly popular you can get them across the broad reach of the high street but to me the ultimate co-ord is the Serena Beaut co-ord I want to waft in with color and comfort and confidence yes color comfort and confidence this is one of 10 this is the fuchsia and it's a fitted shirt which I do buttoned up and it's a pair of really floppy trousers with a lovely shade I wear it with a navy coat I love those colors together I might wear this today you get to a stage in your life where you know the classics that would take you through yeah being classics and yet not looking old-fashioned yeah yeah definitely definitely they're definitely young and yeah fresh yeah exactly we like that yes a statement top this is a top that I've worn a lot and also in photographs it's really good I've done a lot of my press photographs in this top and it is a combination of three things I love it's fitted like a bodice it's got an amazing statement sleeve it's sequined and it's white yeah so that that kind of standout top for you should be in one of your favorite shades one of your favorite textures and the best shape to show off your figure a classic easy jumper yes okay so I have probably used these jumpers from Zara for they've probably done them for 10 years I only buy them I get them usually in a size of medium and every year they do a little different button so $19.99 I know the price backwards I have I hand wash these Zara jumpers because I think too much washing machine just wears them out yeah and then I roll them in a towel to get their structure and they you know this is three years old and I wear it quite a lot yeah okay three more things yeah a classic white shirt well obviously obviously this is River Island they've done it this year with gold buttons here which I might cut off um because I just like the cleanness of the yeah how many how many do you have I have got three with the black bits I have got two with the Demonte and River Island sent me a white one with gold which is just so sweet I mean the sweetest thing so jeans yes a classic in every way obviously this is yes so my jean that you probably almost comment on probably I'd say 80% of you love it and 20% of you go it's too short is this it is citizens of humanity high-waisted crop flare I think the design is called Jodie okay you all ask me so often what I love about this jean is it's not toupee on here it's cropped to the ankle at exactly the right place I'll only wear it with a stacked stomach because otherwise my legs are too short because it's slightly low rise but it's not a skinny jean and if you are long bodied with long legs and you have skinny lower legs with a ballet pump I think skinny jeans fantastic it's a classic in many women's wardrobe you work beautifully you see you know your proportions are different from mine but for me that's never been my most flattering jean I always need to come out a tiny bit at the ankle so you don't see that my calves in comparison to my ankle quite chunky yeah and so I always feel it deceives them yeah the Zara wide leg jean your fav my favorite it's high-waisted which means all those jackets when we if you look at my jacket closet confessions the button ends here and it fits for exactly those buttons to end so it elongates your leg covers everything covers a heavy leg syndrome I have that a lot in the summer I wear it with a trainer and it hits the floor perfectly it's a beautiful color blue denim and I feel very modern in it all right and I think jeans sometimes I see ladies in jeans and I think if you could tweak your jean it would seem more timeless well what is your perfect back trouser different for every shape I think if you wear hour glassy or top heavy like a goblet or a triangle shape I think if you disproportionate self so this is a very good shape this is from Zara and this is very good if you have a wider hip yes that that volume at the bottom is going to change the shape of your body it also gives a sense of curve so I feel there's a curviness to my body yeah but this from Zara and I hope they made again they also made in white is high-waisted so your legs look long a sort of wider leg but very floppy fabric so you don't look that sort of if you get fabric too thick you're wearing two tree trunks so there's a flow to the fabric yeah and I can wear a short jacket with it because I waste nothing back and the fabric is just a wool gabardine and they are like new I've had these for five years yeah so that's close I'm gonna do three or four more things okay you and I've got to run a neutral bag and a black bag so this neutral bag many of you know I got on my trip to America it's from Salama it's what I call a kind of and I think a tote is fantastic because you wear black with white with color you can wear a tote bag with nearly everything if you don't want to wear metallic which I think also goes with every color so since I got this bag if ever I've got a weird outfit I can put this bag on and it goes with it I got this which is its baby sister it's a mini it's a mini cute and I've cost her where they're down to about two pounds each a belt that's going to change every single dress depending on the length between your boob and your waist depends on how wide a belt should be yes so because I have a big distance between my nipple and my hip I can wear a wide belt yeah if you are short bodied have a slightly shorter width yeah but this I put on every woman who borrows clothes for me and it works because of so many things it's from Belman I tried to do it Susanna and we had a little clothing campaign going on with QC and I don't know if we made a minion but it just goes on and it just does things to dresses to outfits to everything yeah and because it's not um because it's not all one fabric but there's a break it means if you have a short waist or a long waist you can wear it because it's deeper here and then it goes up and just it's so clever like if I was wearing a dress let's say this dress and I put this on here even if I was short waisted you can kind of do that and it gets shorter yeah if I ever do clothing range ladies I will replicate this bloody belt because it's an inspired piece of equipment a belt color to me is irrelevant it's the what it does to your shape and whatever the color is it will do it to your shape but if I'm wearing a pale dress I will wear this belt this is essentials Antoine they do them in silver white burgundy somebody got it in gold the other day it's such a good winching in belt and I probably shouldn't tell you this but they're on sale don't tell me because I can't show you knickers and bras and then we're done so three things I wear new knickers if you haven't seen my knicker drawer clear up these are clean these are by wacol yeah this is how it is wacol w-a-c-o-l they are totally seamless they stretch the suck me in underwear that's going to make every dress look good or every trouser looks good so this I wear to give me more of a waist and suck me in and even out everything when I wear a dress okay a bra that's nude totally nude without lace because how many times do you put something on and the laciness ruins the outfit yeah this is from I think this is from bodas it is when I'm tanned the bra I use oh this brand it's a really good color can we see the label because I couldn't there we go yeah okay okay and they do all colors for every skin tone and they're not wired which I did yeah you've got big boobs it's going to be a freya or scarves classic way I've got a boring outfit and you want to add on a scarf to give it some structure I'm going to do the scarf the scarf movement so when I look for scars I look for this big and this thin that's the key that's the key this big and this thin okay I take the two ends and I fold it over so that I'm getting that sort of drape unevenish drape like that there and then I just take it up here and I do that and then I put my coat there and I have it tucked in but wearing a scarf which is round like a university student to me doesn't do what a scarf should do for you it should bring all the color here it shouldn't envelop the outfit you're wearing and it shouldn't overcome the coat that's it lucy we're done that's it yeah thank you very much oh shoes shoes shoes oh my gosh I'm so sorry shoes okay I have a pair of white trainers I either wear Hogan or I wear the Russell and Bromley my legs are short my body's long I wear these and I'm in proportion got ya I love these um a pair of silver brogues these are actually Prada ones but I'm wear probably most now the Stella McCartney ones but I love silver it's a shoe it goes with everything that's just me very personable yeah I'm over the days of wearing them really really high shoes so Robert Clairjury I got these in the sale this winter silver and gold together I can wear them with silver and gold and any color incredibly comfortable and I love the chunkiness of the heel because it will make my ankle look thinner and then a great black shoe that's very comfortable for me these are the Prada ones same principle again they're more of a platform than a wedge and they have a little peep toe I wear them with tights thick tights to make them an evening shoe for the winter they're really comfortable they're padded they're high but they don't totter yeah that's it yeah I'm done there you are that's it yeah that's the wardrobe that's my wardrobe essentials wonderful bye Lucy bye