The Critic Magazine

Summer’drille

FASHION YIELDS NO GREATER oxymoron than the term “summer style”. M’learned friend Leandra Medine Cohen, creator of the Man Repeller fashion blogturned-empire-turned-cancelled post-colonial entity, coined the hashtag #lovesummerhateeverythingelse.

However, Medine is a long-limbed anomaly, currently looking fantabulous in pants not in the American sense of trousers, but actual pants teamed with flats, bare legs and a Chanel jacket.

For those of us for whom this would be ill-advised, warm weather presents

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