Looking at the SS09 Givenchy collection I started to think about a denim and leather combination.
Now, I haven't worn blue denim with leather since seeing Metallica at the Edinburgh Playhouse during their Master of Puppets Tour in 1986. I also had a Rock Mullet, which can only aspire to be half as crap as a Fashion Mullet.
My leather was a biker jacket (natch) and my denim was a pair of the tightest jeans I could fit my skinny little self into and a denim cut-off (that's a denim jacket which has had the sleeves cut off for all those not old enough to actually remember the 80's). My denim cut off sported a full size Motorhead patch on the back, studs around the bottom and assorted small band patches on the front. Nice.
So needless to say there are some era's I find painful to revisit. Yet that pesky Givenchy collection has me thinking about denim and leather.
Whilst I find there is no excuse for chaps, or anything resembling chaps...ever, I do have an old denim skirt which I thought might look good combined with leather/PVC.
The denim skirt actually began life as a pair of Fake London jeans. I stopped wearing the jeans when I didn't feel the cut was right any longer, but instead of throwing them away I made them into a skirt.
I haven't worn it in many years because I have a mental stumbling block that makes me think I'm just a little too old for a denim skirt. But when I saw the Givenchy collection it gave me the idea to make it more grown up by wearing with PVC trousers.
So here is me last Friday test driving the look for work and I have to stay...I'm feeling the combination!
Queen Michelle
