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"  In 1968, Nan Kemper walked into La C\u00F4te Basque in New York, the favorite haunt of the socials, and was politely informed by the ma\u00EEtre d&amp;#039; that she couldn&amp;#039;t enter the restaurant in trousers. So in typical Kempner style, she promptly removed them and swanned in wearing just her matching jacket. The ma\u00EEtre d&amp;#039; may not have cared that those trousers were half of an Yves Saint Laurent le smoking, but on that day, Kempner made pantsuits smoking hot. That incident is well-polished fashion legend, but in the age of Lady Gaga, it&amp;#039;s difficult to imagine that anything as basic as a matching jacket and trousers could be deemed inappropriate. Yet it&amp;#039;s also a challenge to imagine on of today&amp;#039;s It-girl fashion savants opting for a matching jacket and trousers. Until now. Before we get to that, a little history: Pantsuits have been around since the late 1800s. Coco Chanel designed one in 1933. Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn wore them to the gender line during the &amp;#039;30s and &amp;#039;40s. Yves Saint Laurent feminized them in the &amp;#039;60s, and Halson fetishized them in the &amp;#039;70s. During the &amp;#039;80s, every woman worth her hair spray donned a Giorgio Armani pantsuit everywhere from the boardroom to the bedroom. Still, for all the power that pantsuits signified with their strong shoulders and sturdy menswear wools, but the &amp;#039;90s they were in need of a makeover. Enter Helmut Lang and Jil Sander (and later Hedi Slimane), who stripped the wardrobe staple down to its barest architecture for a lean and mean modern look that was the very essence of cool. And for the next 10 years, the only way to look fashionable was to wear a suit. Then, poof! Pantsuits suffered the fashion equivalent of a military coup, toppled in one season by the dress. But, inevitably, fashion&amp;#039;s pendulum always swings back. This fall, designers pushed tailoring out front and center. Leading the charge were Bottega Veneta, Givenchy, and Akris. Even some of the young guns, like Joseph Altuzarra and Alexander Wang, made a convincing case for its revival. Michael Kors is baffled by how far from favor suits had fallen. &amp;quot;Some of the girls who work for me\u2014they&amp;#039;ve never owned a suit! Ever!&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;Even the word blazer is as exotic as saying djellaba.&amp;quot;  Well, not quite. For a couple of years, a certain kind of blazer has been ubiquitous\u2014a light and lean jacket that can be thrown over cocktail dresses, T-shirts, and jeans. Then there&amp;#039;s the Blazer, a feat of serious tailoring that isn&amp;#039;t ever thrown anywhere. &amp;quot;But all of a sudden, you have a generation now that feels that the disposability thing is boring,&amp;quot; Kors adds. &amp;quot;Tailoring is something that takes time and experience. A beautifully tailored jacket or coat, trousers that make you look 10 pounds thinner\u2014honestly, you can&amp;#039;t fake any of that.&amp;quot; The best suits for fall transcended any indications that they had been unearthed from an &amp;#039;80s-era time capsule. You could be Chris Rock and your Hillary Clinton joke would still fall flat in the face of Givenchy&amp;#039;s cropped suit in a perfect shade of lipstick red. For Hannah MacGibbon, creative director of Chlo\u00E9, where tailoring is a house code, pantsuits feel fresher after all that focus on frocks. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re a reaction to the cocktail-dress flood that&amp;#039;s everywhere,&amp;quot; says MacGibbon. &amp;quot;Who&amp;#039;s wearing a cocktail dress when you&amp;#039;re running around or showing up to work?&amp;quot; She adds, &amp;quot;Pantsuits say, &amp;#039;Take me seriously.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Few fashionable women are more serious about their choices than the senior vice president and creative director of Este\u0301e Lauder, Aerin Lauder. &amp;quot;I always wear pantsuits,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I have a formula and a uniform. And pantsuits are versatile and really easy to wear.&amp;quot; So exactly how is this former Tom Ford devotee wearing her suits for fall? &amp;quot;With a really soft shirt underneath, a long gold-chain Alexis Bittar necklace, a classic pointy Christian Louboutin pump, a handbag from Ce\u00E9line or Lanvin, and&amp;quot;\u2014no surprise here\u2014&amp;quot;a great lipstick.&amp;quot; Lauder is right: A simple soft blouse is a must to balance the structure of the suit. You have to select serious heels, especially if you&amp;#039;re wearing a full-legged trouser. For extras, one of the new small and structured bags paired with clean cuffs or a subtle necklace with a pendant will work. Master the look and you&amp;#039;ll show everyone just who wears the pants (suits). "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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