OPENING CEREMONY | 38 | Chloë Sevigny Strappy Leather Wedge Pour Ankle Boots

Rad leather wedge booties with stretch bondage straps. Good preowned condition. (Similar style shown for outfitting inspo.) ⟁ - - “I don’t really play by rules,” saysChloë Sevigny of her maverick approach to designing her line for Opening Ceremony. “I basically make whatever my friends and I want to wear; it’s completely selfish!” So it’s no surprise, then, that neither neoprene nor sequins (which we’ve started to see everywhere else) are to be found in this Chinatown studio; rather, it’s an alternative way of dressing that is exactly what a typical Sevigny acolyte is aiming for, anyway. From the look of the bib-front blouses, bodice tops, and monochromatic printed cycling shorts featuring in this, her fourth collection, that eclectic ideal lies somewhere between eighteenth-century lingerie and vamped-up skaterwear. “I was fascinated by the undergarments,” she said of the “Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915” exhibition she saw at the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art earlier this year, which inspired the frilled-lace hems on shirts, laser-cut leather eyelet minidresses, and corsetry details on her inaugural swimwear offering. “I merged those elements with a collaboration with Vision Street Wear. Their skaters were rock stars when I was growing up, so I thought, Why not do something together?”