The best pastels for all ages – in pictures
The key to wearing pastels is to break them up with bolder colours, because too many saccharine shades can make you feel like a bridesmaid. The only exception is a monotone look: top-to-toe lilac is less neapolitan ice-cream, and more modern power dressing
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Sylviane wears sunglasses, £15.99, and top, £39.99, both zara.com. Skirt, £69.99, hm.com. Boots, £229, kurtgeiger.com. -
Sara wears blazer, £150, arket.com. Bag, £185, reiss.com. Top, £159, whistles.com. Cords, £170, thecords.co.uk. Boots, £85, office.co.uk. -
Carina wears jumper, £49, warehouse.co.uk. Shirt jacket, £255, amiparis.com. Trousers, £175, essentiel-antwerp.com. Shoes, £125, arket.com -
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Trese San wears trousers, £45, shirt, £35, and jacket, £55, all marksandspencer.com. Shoes, £345, by Neous, from net-a-porter.com. Stylist’s assistant: Bemi Shaw. Hair: Vimal Chavda using Bumble and bumble. Makeup: Sophie Higginson using Charlotte Tilbury and Samantha Cooper at Carol Hayes using Bare Minerals. Models: Carina at M+P, Sylviane and Trese San at Mrs Robinson, Sara at Wild and Ivani at Leni’s