Coach's Embellished Racer Jacket

When building outfits that dreams are made of, I usually start with one core item that gives me goosepumps and build the look around it. When I spotted this Coach leather jacket, it was love at first sight and my heart belted Celine Dion songs because life just won't go on without it.

The jacket is givin' me 80's-glam rock vibes so I wanted the rest of the look to serve some hippie-dippie 70's with the rainbow-adorned Anya Hindmarch bag, the perfect cropped flair Victoria Beckham jeans, and the now-iconic Chewbacca Gucci slippers that every fashion editor in New York traipses around town in.

Speaking of fashion editors, this outfit was inspired by Refinery29 Senior Style Editor Annie Georgia Greenberg. She has a killer sense of style and I often look to her for outfit post ideas and inspiration.

THE LOOK

Coach jacket, $997 (was $1,995)  /  Anya Hindmarch bag, $1,771  /  Victoria, Victoria Beckham jeans, $395  /  Gucci slippers, $995

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THE LOOK FOR LESS

Zara leather jacket, $69  /  Strike Gently enamel pin, $8 (buy enamel pins at Etsy and affix them to your jacket for the look of the Coach)  /  Moyna clutch, $48 (was $126)  /  Loéil jeans, $49  /  Marie Etoile fur-lined loafers, $68

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START-UP YOUR ENGINE!

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17th

WHAT TO WEAR TO HOLIDAY PARTIES, PART 3

THE SCENARIO: The super-cool start-up you work for is throwing a holiday party that's sure to be sheer drunken debauchery.

THE CORE ITEM: Coach's envy-inducing varsity jacket.

If you work in an office oozing with creativity, this is the outfit for you. Only in an office with awesomely nerdy graphic designers and quirky bespectacled feminists would this look make sense.

I mean, a bepatched varsity jacket + flare-leg cargo-jean hybrids + glossy silver sneakers (YAS RAF SIMONS, YAS!) + a handbag festooned with mini Lego pieces spelling 'LOVE'? Yeahhhhh, only to be worn at a holiday party for a cool company - you know the one that has like a ping-pong table in the kitchen and office happy hours where they bring in kegs. Yes, kegs. 

So get ready to guzzle hangover-inducing amounts of alcohol, dance with that cute nerd in IT and swing your way around this holiday party in style.

And even though the GIF above is sooper creativez and closely resembles the experience of either dancing on a float at a summertime Gay Pride Parade or rolling face at a Miley Cyrus concert, I'm going to give you the outfit with a less bipolar background right here. Click the images below this look to shop them if you feel like spending some moolah!

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