The sunny days are now well and truly behind us. As we bring out our seasonal essentials, this H&M skirt for less than 16 euros, reminiscent of a luxury homeware item that singer Angèle adores, is at the top of our autumn shopping desires.
If there’s one piece we love to bring out when the temperatures drop, it’s the skirt. Paired with sheer, opaque or even colored tights, it has the merit of lengthening our legs and highlighting the waist, feminizing the entire silhouette. And after a summer season dominated by the maxi skirt, it’s now the turn of the miniskirt to regain its fashion stripes this fall. And not the least since we’re talking about the coated skirt here. Zoom.
Seen on the catwalks of Fashion Week, the leather or vinyl-style coated skirt has never been so fashionable. A fashion revival that we owe in particular to Courrèges, a French fashion house founded in 1961, today headed by the talented Nicola Di Felice, a stylist known for having worked at Louis Vuitton. Indeed, following the success of the collection “Reissues” and the designer’s first shows for the brand, Courrèges quickly returned to the forefront, appreciated for its identifiable and retro aesthetic. Popular brands were quick to draw inspiration from it to imagine more accessible models, but all just as trendy. This is particularly the case for this coated miniskirt H&M burgundy for only €15.99.
Its plus points? It has a wasp waist and has a hook and eye closure and hidden zips on the side, which are quite practical for everyday use. It can be worn with a little black sweater, a fluffy cardigan or a matching textured shirt. And while it is regularly out of stock, the model remains available in most H&M stores such as Paris Lafayette (75009), So Ouest (92300), Carré de Soie (69120), Marseille St Ferréol (13001) and many others. In short, this skirt is the perfect alternative to the iconic Courrèges miniskirtwhich can be found for 450 euros on the site.
Honoring the memory of the founder, André Courrèges, Nicola Di Felice then had the ingenious idea of reissuing the iconic pieces that made the label successful in its early days. Among them, let us mention the biker jacket, the trench coat and of course the PVC miniskirt. Let us recall that in 1965, André Courrèges revolutionized the world of fashion with his geometric lines, contrasting colors and trapeze dresses..
He claims, in the same year, the creation of the miniskirt launched by Mary Quant, in London, almost simultaneously. In the end, it seems that they influenced each other, bringing the garment an international reputation… and this, until today!