- Just touched down in New York on the red-eye—running on less than three hours of sleep, a little rumpled, and layered in two jackets! (Strategic layering-slash-suitcase-triage. Why pack when you can wear, especially when it's new Doen?) I beelined straight from the airport to my sister's Tribeca apartment to drop my bags, one of my jackets (that's really two because it's reversible, suede on one side and faux fur on the other!), and headed to Interlude for a caffeine jolt and my favorite kind of intel: a real-time, street-level download of what downtowners are wearing when it's high-50s and brisk-but-not-freezing. The verdict? It’s a jackets-not-coats moment—the kind where everyone’s hedging their bets with cropped bombers, oversized blazers (like this!) and barn jackets (but in wool now!). Colored socks peek out between ballet flats and kitten-heeled pumps (the kind of detail that says “I care, but casually”). New York dressing always has this insouciant precision—the art of looking spontaneous, even after you’ve spent 10 minutes deciding which jacket to wear over your other jacket. I like the ones below from Zara, Jamie Haller, Smythe, Cos, Velvet and The Great.
Photos: Jordan Goldberg, Jamie Haller
