Three's a crowd!
The last episode was a little dated, but I'm back in the new year to bring you some new video looks.
On the program: 4 winter looks that I hope will inspire you.
Look 1 - The trifecta
I think we start with a basic color combination that works every time: brown, green and blue.
If you're not sure what to wear in the morning, pick clothes in these shades, and you're pretty much guaranteed to have an outfit that does the job.
Next, it's the shapes, cuts and materials that will give life and personality to your outfit.
Here, the base is brown corduroy pants and a khaki trucker-neck sweater. For elegance, I slip on a textured duck-blue wool blazer, which adds a touch of originality, while remaining very easy to wear.
For shoes, I stick to brown and choose moccasins. I find the texture of their grained leather works well with the velvet of the pants and the dense wool of the sweater.
To finish off the ensemble, I choose our big blue Kinvara coat, straight and belted.
And to accessorize: a red-checked tartan scarf, which adds a touch of light close to the face.
Look 2 - For the love of monochrome
There are two ways to dress. On the one hand, you have contrasting outfits, as I showed you in the previous look.
And on the other, you have cameo outfits. In other words, you use different shades of the same color in your outfit.
When successful, I find that cameos have a special aura: there's something soft and harmonious about them. And that's precisely why it speaks to me so much: I like it when outfits have a natural, flowing feel, with continuity.
And for me, the simplest, most natural way to create cameos is to use natural, soft shades, so anything from ecru to brown.
I created this look with a beige cabled sweater with a high collar, and bright ecru cotton twill pants with a pronounced diagonal.
On the feet, we could go for brown shoes, but I like to break up this type of monochrome with black, which leads me to black loafers.
And to add depth to the ensemble, I've got this coat with a houndstooth pattern in rich shades of brown, which perfectly supports our style statement. The pattern is there, you can see it, but it's not overdone, precisely because the colors that make it up are close, creating a harmonious whole.
This coat is straight, quite long, and I like the 3 flap pockets that give it its personality compared to other coats of this type.
With this type of outfit, the aim is really to play with lighter or lighter browns: you could also consider wearing taupe, hazelnut or chocolate brown, for example.
Look 3 - Winter workwear
If there's one season when the workwear wardrobe expresses itself better than ever, it's winter, when you find dense, robust materials made to brave the elements.
For this third look, I'm starting with a long-sleeved waffle henley as a first layer. This is a variation on the thermal t-shirt that more and more brands are now offering, with its embossed texture that provides good thermal insulation.
Bottom layer: our good old selvedge denim, thick and raw, in a textured Japanese fabric just the way we like it.
On this base, we continue to add texture with a Prince of Wales wool overshirt that takes on the role of a little jacket, which we can open or close as we like to regulate temperature.
On your feet, you could wear boots, of course. For my part, I choose brogues with a rather rustic style, with their grained leather and rubber sole.
And to protect ourselves from the winter chill, I pull out a large vintage duffle coat, quite long and, above all, very thick! This brighter camis color works well with the other shades in the outfit, especially the raw denim.
Incidentally, I think the duffle coat is a type of coat that's been a little underrated in recent years, but which I've always found cool. It's a piece with a real history, it's stylish with its brandebourg buttons and it's functional, especially with its hood.
For me, the duffle is almost a visually stronger, more stylish version of the classic parka or down jacket you see everywhere on the streets.
And I'm confident that it will soon find its way back into brand collections and men's wardrobes, because I think it's a timeless garment in terms of form and function.
And to finish accessorizing, I'm adding cashmere-lined leather gloves.
Look 4 - Full black (almost)
For this final outfit, I wanted to express one of my stylistic obsessions of recent months: the color black. Yes, I know, black isn't technically a color, but you get my point.
I know it hasn't always been recommended at Bonnegueule, and it's time to give it back its letters of nobility. By the way, our article on how to wear black has been updated and shows you how to make it your own.
I think it's a color (or rather a non-color) that you have to make your own, that you have to master.
It's a color you have to wear intentionally. You have to have a kind of project, an idea in mind. For example, it works very well with brighter colors like pink, violet and yellow.
And another, almost more obvious way of incorporating it is to play it in full look. So I'm not going to give you a John Wick-type outfit, even though it did cross my mind.
Instead, I've opted for an outfit in shades of black and grey.
So we start with black jeans, a gray T-shirt and a charcoal shirt. Next, I've got a piece that fits in well with what I'm trying to do: a fleece cardigan in shades of black and gray, even a little white. But I really think of it as a black cardigan when I wear it in my looks.
For shoes, unsurprisingly black. I was thinking more along the lines of black derby shoes, but I don't have any, so it'll be loafers.
And for the coat, it could be black, but here it'll be gray, always with nuance of course, as it's a herringbone with light and dark gray lines... which is a bit reminiscent of the cardigan, and even the shirt, in a way.
And to go all the way, I've got a black twisted beanie whose shape I really like.
Here, the elements respond to each other, and it's really the fact of having textured garments with rich shades that gives this outfit its salt, its interest.
