Everything in this look is one colour and one metal. Cobalt shows up in the tank, the eyeshadow, the beaded bracelet and the mirror coating on the lenses. Silver does the rest: the stacked rings, the pearl-grey beads, the chrome manicure, the thin metal frames pushed up into the hair. It reads as loud from across the street, and it’s actually a very small shopping list. The reason it holds together is repetition, not matching.

Two friends on a windy beach day, and between them they’ve covered most of the bases for effortless warm-weather dressing. The look in the foreground is doing a lot of quiet work: white cropped zip-up hoodie, chocolate satin high-waist bottoms, black wayfarers, and a thin chain necklace. Behind her, a Gucci monogram cap over a gray tank does the branded-casual thing correctly. The Cropped Hoodie The white cropped zip-up hoodie is the anchor of the outfit and one of the more versatile pieces in the current casual-luxury space.