There's nothing cooler than wearing something old, nay, archival—and last night gave us a prime example courtesy of Emma Stone.
Photographed arriving outside The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the actor's outfit immediately triggered a feeling of nostalgia in anyone old enough to say they "came of age" in the Nineties.
The look in question was a slinky co-ord made up of a collared shirt fastened by a single button plus a column skirt. But it's the colour that's by far its most noticeable feature: a charming apple green that movie fans will have pinpointed as soon as Stone emerged from her car as being distinctly Gwyneth Paltrow. Not because she has a daughter named after the fruit, but rather because she wore exactly the same co-ord—Donna Karan SS96, according to Check The Tag—in 1998's Great Expectations.
Filming a scene in the park, it's become one of the actor's most famous costumes, almost as memorable as her fur coat and note-perfect hair clip in Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, semaphoring as it did a sense of minimal ease which, by the late '90s, was reigning supreme in the era of designers like Calvin Klein, Helmet Lang and, naturally, Donna Karan.
A slinky co-ord is also a novel idea this party season if you want to side-step wearing dresses on repeat. Stone paired hers with micro-heeled sandals, but a knee-high boot that fits like a glove or even a pair of pared-back ballet flats would be just as winning.
Shop The Slinky Co-Ord
A strappy version of the slinky-cord will be perfectly appropriate for Christmas (just fling a wrap coat over the top).
This midi skirt can be dressed up (with the matching camisole) or down off the party-season circuit (with a mohair sweater and knee-high boots).
Toteme's silk-twill shirt is almost exactly the shade of apple you're looking for if you want to mimic Paltrow/Stone.
You could wear these at Christmas, but also on your summer holiday. What's not to love?
