Spring’s Silk Pajamas
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Many women’s asked from me that “How can we wear spring’s menswear-style pajama pieces without looking like I’m sleepwalking?” so i try to find answer and write it below.
We loved the return of this trend on Dolce & Gabbana’s spring ’09 catwalk. It’s so Marlene Deitrich—all sultry-cool, bedroom eyes, cigarette smoke, and a strand of pearls. But as easy as the idea seems, you want it to be customized and stylish enough to read as style, not that you have given up on the world and are shuffling down the street in your nightclothes. This means a loose yet sexy fit, and tailoring that translates as clothes, not some polyester piece you have got lying around the bottom of your sock drawer.
First: this is not a lingerie look. This is classic, gentleman’s dressing, and so stick with trousers, shirts, or shorts. High-quality fabric is pretty much essential: you want glossy, slippery silk, or satin. Dolce & Gabbana did do some small prints—dots, florals—but the easiest and most elegant way to pull this off is to stick with a clean, uniform solid color: Black, white, gray, and beige are beautiful and timeless. And unless you’re really going for it Sharon Stone style, head-to-toe PJ’s is a little silly looking—one piece at a time gets the point across beautifully.
For night, silky trousers with a camisole or a shrunken tuxedo jacket look essentially masculine-feminine and chic. But we also like the idea of irreverently styling a pajama blouse with something unanticipated and modern, be it blue jeans or skinny leather pants. Kind of “Eh, whatever, I’m Kate Moss.” Kind of “I just rolled out of bed, and I still look better than you.” Or, try it with a dramatic skirt. Dolce & Gabbana’s finale look—a gray PJ top wrapped, sashed, and tucked into a flower-strewn ball-gown skirt worthy of Marie Antoinette—was modern, mixed-up-cool dressing at its best.
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