This Expensive-Looking Trend Looks So Chic With Skinny Jeans

What to wear with skinny jeans is probably something you've pondered before (you are here after all). Skinny jeans themselves are obviously quite boring, but what you wear with them can make them significantly less so. Irina Shayk knows this well, as was evidenced by a recent skinny-jean outfit she wore while out shopping in NYC.
Shayk's outfit was pretty simple: skinny jeans, knee boots, and a button-down top. The top is significant in that it's faux leather, which is a major trend that we've been talking about a lot this season. I wrote an entire story about how expensive faux leather looks, even when it's an affordable style from H&M or Zara. And as you can see via Irina Shayk, it's the perfect trend to jazz skinny jeans up with.
You know what to do: Keep scrolling to shop some of my favorite faux-leather tops to wear with skinny jeans.
On Irina Shayk: Nanushka shirt; DL1961 jeans; Manu Atelier Knee High Multipanel XX Duck Boots ($702)
Shop Chic Faux-Leather Tops
Next up, 7 skinny-jean outfits worth trying in 2021.
Allyson is a senior editor for Who What Wear. She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories for Who What Wear. Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater arts. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.
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