Joy, I will go ahead and speculate that is the reason for her fashion choice.

So interesting. I am in the market for a white turtleneck! Really, I have noticed that when it is the least bit cool I want to cover up to the neck, and am tired of only black and grey. That is really the only specific item I have been looking for lately. But enough about me! My first thought about Ines was interesting shoes. The shape and squared off toes look either very old or very fresh to me. I love the coat and totally understand her choice of colors but would probably wear the outfit without the second layer. Not sure how anyone without her height and presence would pull this off, but perhaps that is part of the fun for her.

I also think it's interesting that her pants are actually ruched around the knees. I like that, opposed to the normal bunching of long straight leg pants puddled around the ankle.

It is not something you'd notice at first glance.

Besides the need to cover up hickeys, there is more going on with Ines and her outfit, which is not all that simple after all.

I am so ridiculously late here, but I just have to chime in and say I immediately thought 60s mod with the white pants and black chelsea like booties.

LOVE those ones you have pinned, Angie. But I am a sucker for every single chelsea boot ever made...that is why I shelled out the dollars for my Stuarts!

Now I want a pair like Jonesy's, too!!

I also love her coat.

I was not happy about the turtleneck and would prefer a button down here. I don't dislike white turtlenecks per se, but something about the proportions here (perhaps I agree with Vildy, or with Angie about the knit on knit....)

And the oddest of all, I felt somehow discombobulated by her hair. Its wave is making me think of my husband's ex-wife. Nothing wrong with her, but Ines does not usually resemble her to me, and it's sort of throwing me off.

I'm a little late and a little scared to comment but after much picture gazing I have to say I find this look a little dated and uninteresting (should I run for the hills?). I normally love her style, and there are element here I do like ...but together it's just not grabbing me. We had to wear white skivvies (like a tneck in a thick tshirt type fabric) at school so I have never liked turtlenecks :(. I think with tweaking as per Angie's suggestions it would look more current to me:)

I did read everyone's comments and thoroughly enjoy the idea that white turtlenecks are for covering hickeys

I normally adore Ines' outfits, but this one creates all sorts of deeply seated style memories that I do not want to repeat, such as black footwear with white pants, any sort of turtleneck with v-neck sweater (especially deep Vs).

I actually like the color combo of white, deep dijon, and navy, but I don't like the addition of black nor the way the colors are placed (unitard) and proportioned.

Individially I do love the coat, the white jeans, the dijon sweater, the booties.

I may well eat my words six months from now if this style becomes the latest trend and I see it everywhere, but for now I'd take a big pass.

The more I look at this outfit and the more I think about it, the more I really like it, including the choice of the white turtleneck. Funny how letting something simmer on the brain's back burner for a while can do that sometimes with things of an aesthetic nature.

This has been an interesting thread and fashion exercise for me. I learned something about the intellectual nature of evaluating a bit of fashion, and whether it appeals to my current sensibilities or not, taking into consideration what thought processes and trend spotting may have likely been behind the wearers intentions, especially in a fashion icon attuned to such things.

Moira, about Ines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I....._Fressange

Link to Google Images for her: https://www.google.com/search?.....38;bih=636

I just looked at the Google Images for Ines, saw this outfit and followed some links and wanted to note that she chose to wear this ensemble to the March 2011 Paris Fashion Week Chanel show. Here's a link to few additional pitures of her arriving at the show: http://www.zimbio.com/photos/I.....Mb4NOarupj

Thank you, Claudia. So she is a fashionista and a socialite. That sounds about right.

I'm late to this, too, but somehow my first thought was that she is on her way to the stables to practice her show jumping. In 1972.

LOL Mander! Suz, IKWYM about the hair.

In these pics with the outfit and hair, Ines looks very much like one of my college professors who I really loved. However, that was 1984 and the professor's name was Bunny (I kid you not) and she was queen of preppy style. So, if the goal is that old-school equestrian/preppy style, I'd say mission accomplished. It's just not a style that resonates with me at all -- it looks too traditional and dare I say a little bit frumpy to me. Again, I admit this is my bias and a product of growing up in an area that was saturated with this look!

Hickies - such an American word! We call them love bites. Cracks me up. Love bites seem so late '70s and early '80s too.

Zap, I wear cream turtlenecks - but they are not cotton. Nothing wrong with a fab fitting turtleneck in wool blend or something that looks like a wool blend in any colour.

Ladies, I see the frumpy '70s association of the delicate necklace worn over the white cotton turtleneck! Not so fab

Suz, I'm glad you mentioned Ines's hair. I think she'd look even better with a more fashionable do. Perhaps she is growing it out?

Don't you see some Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill in it, too?

I actually like the outfit more in the second two pictures. just shows how outfits change based on the the angle and the movement.

Still Paris Fashion Week, same bottom half, different top half.

(Yeah, she's covering up a hickey.)

I prefer the outfit you just posted, Claudia. I also really like the fact that Ines re-wears her items. Good role model.

I like this outfit, but am not sure I would wear my white turtleneck out, as in this outfit. I actually am wearing a white turtleneck right now with my navy AE sweats and Ugg boots, because it's warm and cozy.

Angie, I love the way you broke down the outfit and I agree with Claudia about it having a '60s vibe and an androgynous tone. Yes, the hair seems a bit dated and perhaps she's in the middle of an update. *smiling* with Mander's post.

Oh yes, Claudia's new pic appeals to me SO much more and not just because it's black & white all over

The turtleneck looks better to me in black and without the deep V-neck. The coat is about the same length, so the same proportions. The black shoes don't look nearly as 60s with all the other black above.

Is her hair pulled back here? She must be growing it out. . .