[1] Today I think I proved to myself that it pays off to keep up with the fashion grads for the benefit of personal style.  Last weekend, one of the deets [2] that I picked up at the La Cambre class of 2008 in Brussels were the skinny floral pants that I saw in the menswear collection of Mansour Badjoko Wa Lileko [3].  It was one of my favourite collections for the reason that he was doing something quite fresh for menswear.  For selfish reasons though, I did end up craving a pair of skinny floral pants.

So today, I lucked out at the Concrete [4] relocation sale with these Sophia Malig mixed floral print velour leggings.  I think velour and mixed print should be pretty horrific and off-putting for most people but I just conjured visions of pairing it up with a hefty bit of grey and sharp shirts a la Mansour's collection 'Neat and Tight'.  Malig is a designer that was a LFW regular a few years [5] back so it was also nice to find an old bit of her stuff in the sale. 

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