Fashion Memo

Silk trousers: the effortless summer piece

They feel like your softest loungewear and look like couture. Meet the one piece doing all the work this summer.

Billowy silk trousers styled for summer evenings
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Items: fluid wide-leg trouser, Maje; silk-blend trouser, COS; tailored satin trouser, Massimo Dutti; fine tank & mule, de Bijenkorf.

Some pieces earn their place by being quietly brilliant. Silk trousers are exactly that: the comfort of something you'd happily nap in, with a drape that reads instantly polished. They move, they flatter, and they ask almost nothing of you in return.

The trick is in the fluidity. A wide, billowing leg catches the light and the breeze; a simple top keeps the focus where it belongs. It's low effort as a statement, the most modern kind of dressing there is.

Three ways to wear them

By day, pair them with a fine tank and flat sandals for something breezy and unbothered. For work, add a crisp shirt half-tucked and a slim mule. Come evening, a slip of a top and a heel is all it takes, the trousers do the rest. One piece, three outfits, zero effort.

Stick to a tonal palette, cream, sand, black, and the whole look feels expensive without trying.

The Edit

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The season's best silk trousers and the pieces to wear them with. Tap to shop.

MShopping soon
Maje
Fluid wide-leg trouser
Mid
CShopping soon
COS
Minimalist silk-blend trouser
Mid
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MDShopping soon
Massimo Dutti
Tailored satin trouser
Accessible
dBShopping soon
de Bijenkorf
Fine tank & mule (styling)
Mixed

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