Style File: Neutrals by Day, and Black by Night

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January has a way of slowing everything down; the light slips across walls, disappears early, leaving rooms and hours to fold inward. It wraps itself around us, those short days fading to long evenings, the world outside reduced to silhouettes and candlelight. There’s something about these dark winter days that calls for a wardrobe reset: soft, enveloping neutrals for daylight hours spent cocooned indoors, then a shift to something altogether more polished when night falls.

This month, we’re reaching for cashmere and cream during the day – pieces that feel like an extension of the quiet, contemplative mood that January brings. By evening, it’s all about stepping into black: tailored, refined, with just the right amount of gleam from gold jewellery and a bit of lengthening mascara. It’s a rhythm that feels right for this time of year – neutrals for daylight hours, black for evening, and pieces designed to live with you through these long January days and nights.