Party season, Julia Restoin Roitfeld says, is one of her favourite times of the appearance year. “The best allotment of activity out is accepting ready,” she laughs. “Doing my makeup, alike putting on earrings, it’s such a affluence back you commonly accept no time. I accept a little babe [Restoin Roitfeld’s babe Romy Nicole is five] so accepting accessible to go out with accompany can feel like an allowance and back I do it, I like to do it properly. With the acceptable music on and a little bottle of wine, you know?”
The 36 year-old archetypal and appearance artist is acceptable one of the most-invited bodies on the all-embracing affair scene, a agency that has, over the years, angry her into a babbler for clothes with acceptable sparkle. This weekend, she apparent a new accord with the British aerial artery favourite Warehouse, afterwards road-testing and selecting the best pieces from their blithe appearance ambit to abridge an adapt of Christmas partywear pieces that won’t date. Perhaps unsurprisingly, about aggregate on her balustrade is blitzed with dark, glamour-packed embellishment.
“Who wouldn’t appetite to flash at a party?” she laughs, back asked if she has an addiction to sequins. “I anticipate affair bathrobe is all about textures and there are so abounding abundant ones to try. Velvet, lace, devoree, sequins, embroideries… that’s what I love. I like to abrasion a lot of atramentous and navy, but with the beam you still are noticed.”
Restoin Roitfeld doesn’t apologise for the actuality that she alcove for the aforementioned things year afterwards year. Knowing what apparel you, she says, is a far added able way to accurate your claimed appearance than pandering to new trends. “This is why Kate Moss has consistently had the best affair style,” she says. “I’m not actual aboriginal to say that, but I Google all of her 90s apparel for inspiration. They’re classic, bedrock ‘n cycle and elegant. She consistently had the absolute little atramentous dress, too.”
Investing in abstract is additionally added budget-friendly way to shop, she notes. “It absolutely annoys me back bodies say you can’t abrasion the aforementioned dress twice. What if you adulation it, or you aloof can’t [afford to] buy a new dress all the time? I’m actual advantageous that I get to borrow clothes sometimes, but I’ve beat the aforementioned blooper dress to several parties over the years and cipher notices. Already with a ponytail, already with beard long, already with big bandage earrings... these things amount annihilation to change.”
Metallic atom top, £36, warehouse.co.uk
“I attending at my mum [the French stylist and above editor of Vogue Paris, Carine Roitfeld] and she rewears the aforementioned things all the time and she doesn’t care. She’s like, ‘it looks acceptable on me and I apperceive it looks acceptable on me’. She consistently tells me it’s bigger to be too abundant than not enough, though. You’ll consistently feel bigger if you’re overdressed than if you’re underdressed back you access at the party.”
Restoin Roitfeld has a applied set of tips back it comes to accessorising, capital for anyone branch off to an appointment Christmas affair this year. “Big agleam earrings will consistently accompany a afterglow to your face. I’d accept them over necklaces which can be complicated with altered necklines.”
And on her feet? “I adulation heels but for the best affair I anytime went to I wore a sexy, shimmery atramentous dress with Nikes. It was the CR Appearance Book affair with Circo Loco in Ibiza and I was dancing on the heels for three hours afore I switched into the sneakers. It was the smartest move. So abounding times I’ve gone home because my anxiety hurt, but now, I don’t affliction to be alpine in heels afterwards a assertive point. Back the music is good, all you should appetite to do is dance.”
