The Diary Of A Purple Sweater

My mistress has had the Barrel jeans on her mind for more than seven months, not as a subject for her magazine, but as the pair she would wear if she could regain her dancer’s body. Yesterday, she went into a shop to find a new T-shirt to replace me when it’s too hot for wool, and she couldn’t help but stop next to a young woman who was trying to decide whether these jeans would fit her. Her husband just shrugged, so my mistress stopped to help her, immediately assessing the woman’s legs and offering advice. Barrel jeans fit lean women perfectly, allowing them to move with fluidity.

My lady’s former editor-in-chief was a friend of Azzedine Alaïa, and these jeans are designed in true Alaïa style to flatter women’s figures (as long as they don’t eat too much tiramisu). The perfectly studied curves of these round denim jeans create fluidity through an arched construction that lengthens the leg too.

If my mistress could lose a few pounds, I would not mind having a staple conversation with these Alaïa trousers.

• Black denim
• Button and concealed zip fastening at front
• 99% cotton, 1% polyurethane; lining: 65% polyester, 35% cotton