Black and Brown Fashion Rule for the Versatile Woman

In this article, we show you fashion tips for styling black and brown. See, Rules in the fashion world only exist to be broken. Fashion should be a way of escape to a place with no rules. Fashion designers like Prada understand this all too well, given her ability to marry black and brown straight into women’s wardrobes. 

There are fashion ideas in the 50s that just shouldn’t be imposed on us — ideas like neutral colours should ONLY be worn with bright colours. Nope! Neutral colours can be worn together to achieve an elegant power look. Neutral colours in fashion are: black, grey, navy, brown, khaki and white. 

The inspiration for this post is Camilla Coelho who showed the world that 2 different neutrals can be worn perfectly well. In her case, cameras at the New York Street Style Fashion Week shuttered at her stylish black and brown look.

Don’t you like how the collars of her designer black and brown dress sit atop the collars of her designer long brown leather coat? The signature drama around her neck creates a butterfly effect, drawing appreciation to her quirky sense of style. To enhance the collar effect, she tied her hair into a cute messy bun and wore one threaded drop down earring.

Her designer black and brown dress warmly cascades into her designer long black boots to show black and brown for winter is not such a bad idea. Brown is the colour of earth and she elegantly looks down to earth, lol. 

Here is what Rihanna said moons ago about black and brown fashion style:

“The idea of not wearing brown and black together seems so dated. The other day I wore a black T-shirt, black Nobody jeans, a brown leopard-print belt by Dolce & Gabbana, and brown Giuseppe Zanotti shoes, and it looked awesome. And I also love to mix prints.”

If Camilla and Riri love black and brown then everybody loves black and brown

How else can you style a long brown leather coat?

• Seen how denim looks good with brown? You can layer your long brown leather trench coat over your denim skinny jeans paired with a nude turtle-neck and nude heels.      
• Wear other neutral colours with your brown coat. Grey blends really well with brown as does white. A long brown coat draped over a white shirt tucked in white palazzo pants and paired with nude heals? Effortlessly chic!
• Use it as the only neutral by layering it over prints. Like how you would layer your denim coat over everything? Try that with your long brown trench coat. You will transform an average look into a sophisticated one in an instant.
• Wait. On a chilly morning, you can lazily hang it over a light sweater, just in case it ends up being a hot afternoon. 

One last thing, you can wear your brown leather coat on brown and make the look pop with  a pair of black heels. What other black on brown fashion tips do you have? 

To see more of Camilla’s fashion tips, click here.