HOW TO BUILD A 10 PIECE CAPSULE WINTER WARDROBE _ Classic Old Money basics & my wardrobe essentials

This is without a doubt my number one recommendation. If you do not have a variation of this in your wardrobe, what are you doing? Well hello there and welcome back to my channel. If you are new here my name is Ciara. I share videos on shopping for the best basics on the high street, how to build a capsule wardrobe and lots of other good stuff. So if that sounds good to you then do hit subscribe because I would love to have you back for more videos. So in today's video we are doing one of my absolute favourite videos to do every season and it is my capsule wardrobe video. I just love putting these together so so much. If you've watched my other videos you'll know that I do my capsule wardrobe videos a little bit differently and that is because I like to whittle it down to 10 essential pieces and these are always my ride or die basics every season. These are the things that I wear the most, the things that always are my go-tos if I don't know what to wear and these 10 basics are also the items that I will tend to spend a little bit more if I can to get the best quality and to get the best fabric composition because this means that these basics are going to last me even better and they're just going to make my life so much easier. So that is what I've done today. I have 10 essential items that anyone should have in their capsule winter wardrobe. As always everything will be linked right down in the description below. I will also leave info on sizing. If anything is sold out I will leave some alternatives and I will also of course leave info on any discount codes that I can find and you'll be happy to know that in today's video I have an amazing exclusive discount code for you so I'm so excited to share. So without rambling on too much let's get straight into it. I'm going to share my 10 basic outfit staples for your capsule winter wardrobe. Item number one in my capsule winter wardrobe checklist is the black turtleneck. This is without a doubt my number one recommendation. If you do not have a variation of this in your wardrobe what are you doing? It's gonna make your life so much easier. I live in a black turtleneck in winter. They just go with everything. They make everything look so chic. You can dress them up. You can dress them down. To me this is my classic t-shirt in winter. It's the item honestly I wear the most. The one that I recommend above any others is the LilySilk cashmere silk blend turtleneck and I'm wearing it right now. The reason why this is such a fantastic piece is that as I said it's a silk cashmere blend so it is so warm and cozy but it is so soft on the skin. When it comes to knitwear I find that often knits if they're lower quality can be scratchy. They can be itchy and as soon as they go into the wash they can disintegrate and this is where when you invest in better quality it really really shows the difference in how long these pieces will last you. I'm going to take off my blazer and show you. As I said it is that silk cashmere blend and that is why it's fully breathable. It's so soft on the skin. It's really really comfortable but it adds quite a bit of warmth to your outfit. It's almost like a thermal layer in itself and it is without a doubt the best turtleneck that I have found online or on the high street. It just makes my life so much easier when I'm putting outfits together. I honestly can't tell you how often I reach for this. So you'll definitely have heard me talk about LilySilk here on my channel before. I have so many great wardrobe basics from them but especially in autumn winter their silk and cashmere blends, their knits are really where they shine and I feel like if you're someone who enjoys knitwear and who doesn't in winter having one or two of their pieces in your basics wardrobe you are going to get so much wear out of them. What I love about LilySilk as a brand is I feel like they're really fairly priced for the quality of their products and they often do really great discount codes as well. LilySilk have kindly given me an exclusive discount code for you. It is for 15% off everything across the website including this stunning turtleneck. The code is KIRAYT15. I'll pop it here on screen and it gives you 15% off everything but you can also use the code KIRAYT20 which gives you 20% off everything. If you spend over the $500, €500 mark. So I will leave the info for that code down in the description below and I'll also leave links to this beautiful piece and I have some other gorgeous pieces to show you. Pick yourself up a black turtleneck and you can come back and thank me and tell me all of the different ways that you're wearing it because it is my number one outfit staple for winter but we have nine other pieces to get through so let's get on to piece number two. So moving on to item number two that I recommend it is a gorgeous knit and the one that I have here is this absolutely beautiful cashmere knit. This is again by LilySilk and I honestly wish that you could feel this through the camera. This is one of their full cashmere knits. It is a brushed cashmere and it feels heavenly. It is so soft on the skin. It was only when I started to invest in better quality knits did I really realise the difference. It is just so comfortable to wear. It's really breathable. It's not itchy at all on the skin. It's going to cost you a little bit more but again the amount that you can wear this provided that you take care of the item, you're really careful when you're washing it, it will last you. They're constantly worn on rotation because they're so soft and so comfortable that I don't want to reach for anything else. I think it's really easy to style with things in the winter. It looks really good with darker colours, with blacks, with greys. Again you could do an all tonal grey look. I wore this recently with a beautiful like darker grey jacket, a black mini skirt and some knee-high boots and it was just so gorgeous. But again something like this is going to look beautiful tucked into jeans. You can dress it up with tailored trousers, wear it to work. Like with this turtleneck, you can dress these up for the party wear season as well. Especially this type of cashmere knit worn with a beautiful satin maxi skirt or like a plissé kind of pleated midi skirt. There's something really elegant about it especially if you have kind of your hair back, some nice gold jewellery, chunky earrings. My 15% code works for this cashmere knit as well as this turtleneck. The next item in the roundup which I recommend for your winter capsule wardrobe checklist and it is a knit dress. Focusing on the knits in the beginning here because at this time of the year it is the only way to stay warm and to look chic. And again when you focus on your good quality pieces you're going to get that bit more warmth and comfort. I have two knit dresses that I'm going to show you by LilySilk just to give you two different options. So you can choose a variation of these that works the best but this one is the slightly more dressy one. So this is called the VV knit dress by LilySilk and I have seen this worn by so many people. It really seems to be one of their best sellers and it's crafted from a silk fabric. So again you're getting that super high quality. It's going to sit really nicely on the body. The fabric feels gorgeous. It comes into this almost plissé style midi skirt. It's so elegant. And what I also love about this is the shoulders. It scoops really beautifully along the neckline and the décolletage and I think this is such a gorgeous like chic area to have on show especially in winter time. But you can also wear the sleeves lower down on the shoulders and just show off a full shoulder moment. It also comes in a black but I feel like the cream is just so so chic. I think the thing with knit dresses is that they just look so effortlessly elegant especially in the winter time because when the weather is cold sometimes it is so nice to still be wrapped up even when you're indoors and this is where pieces like these come in because they look so chic but they're so comfortable as well. Now the next knit dress I wanted to show you is a little bit more casual and I would say a bit more versatile in terms of styling. This is the grey merino wool dress. It's again by LilySilk so it's a super gorgeous wool composition. So the fact that this is crafted from merino wool we know merino for being really warm really really comfortable it's going to have a nice bit of heat to it and you can see the fabric is so slim and light it's going to skim across the body really really nicely. What I really like about this grey knit dress is that you could dress this up or down a little bit more. The VV knit dress I showed you is a little bit dressier which I adore especially with the neckline whereas this one is a little bit more versatile. I think that you could easily pair this with ballet flats even with a pair of like nice chic trainers and dress it down for the daytime. You can pop a belt over it but it easily can be dressed up for the evening with a pair of heels a nice clutch some nice gold jewellery you know it really is one of those pieces that you can wear from day to night and I love having those pieces in my wardrobe especially in winter that are that versatile and I just know I'm going to be comfortable and I know they're going to look good. So those are the four pieces that I wanted to show you from LilySilk and as I said when it comes to our capsule winter wardrobe knitwear is such a big part of it and that's why I think it really pays to have the best fabric composition that you can it's just going to make everything feel and look better and that's why I'm so delighted that I have an exclusive discount code for you so be sure and use it it's going to give you a nice chunk off I'll be using it myself to pick up either a second black turtleneck or to get it in the cream colour as well. So the next item in my capsule winter wardrobe checklist is a long sleeved tee a long sleeve tee that I highly recommend and you'll have seen me talk about this in my shapewear video recently because I talked about thermals it is the cashmere long sleeve from Swedish Stockings they're predominantly a tights brand but they do really good base layers and it's basically your long sleeve tee it's kind of like a t-shirt type fabric even though it is a cashmere material so I guess you could call it a knit but it is such good quality it keeps you so so warm and it's great if you want something really really fine to wear underneath something I think it's such a good base layer next item I'm going to recommend for your capsule winter wardrobe is a pair of leather or coated trousers I did mention different types of trousers in my previous video for autumn and of course you can wear lots of those into winter but as I said these 10 items are very much geared towards the cold weather and there is nothing that beats the cold like a pair of coated or leather trousers they just give every outfit that kind of cool girl energy they're very easy to style and they just make everything look really smart and gives kind of an edge to an outfit but again they're not too edgy you can make them look so chic and polished as well I style them just like I would a pair of black tailored trousers top recommendations for these would probably be River Island I feel like they just do really great ones for the price point I have a pair that I absolutely love which I bought this season that I'm going to link below the price was fantastic and then I also have a slightly wider leg version from them as well which I'll also link below they look great with a black turtleneck tucked into a cashmere knit you can wear them with a gorgeous blazer or a coat and again they can easily be dressed up for the evening as well whether you're pairing them with a simple tank top or t-shirt in the evening or you want to do a dressier top the leather trousers are great for the party season so moving on from the leather trousers the next item I recommend is a leather midi or maxi skirt now this is something I only started wearing recently this season and I adore it so I do still love my like minier leather skirts they're super super fun but I do find that the midi or maxi lengths look so chic and so elegant and they're actually very easy to style this season I've been wearing them with simple t-shirts tucked into them which I think is a really cool alternative to leather trousers it's kind of a nice like dressy casual vibe but then also you can easily dress them up for the evening if you pair them with a beautiful satin blouse you can throw them on with blazers they really are a piece that I feel like works for daytime and for nighttime as well and again my top recommendation for this is River Island they have a few different styles that I really like I will show the one that I have here it's linked below they also do a full leather version it's a little bit more expensive but if you really liked this style and you wanted the real leather material they have a version that's really really nice so the next piece I'm going to recommend is also leather and I just I love this material in winter I feel like it's the perfect time to wear it it looks so cool and it's just such a great basic so the last item I'm going to recommend is a leather jacket now I'm not necessarily saying a biker jacket I actually prefer like a leather blazer or even a leather over shirt so I have two that I'm going to show you the first one is one that I've had for years it is so so nice it is from ASOS and it is sold out but I will link some similar ones below again if you want to spend a little bit more you could go for real leather it's going to be heavier and warmer but some of the faux leather versions that I found are really good I think it's key to just find one that's kind of matte that's not too shiny and then the other item is a leather over shirt now again my one is from Topshop on ASOS and it is older but I will link some similar ones I particularly love this belted over shirt I think it looks great paired with leather trousers for like a double leather look it's actually not as scary as it seems especially if you dress it down with like a cool pair of trainers I think it works super super well but I think a leather over shirt paired with a skirt or you know even with a satin maxi or midi I think is really really gorgeous so now we're going to move on to outerwear and my number one recommendation for outerwear for your capsule winter wardrobe is the long black coat it's so popular this season that it's been abbreviated to the LBC as opposed to the LBD the little black dress but really it is such a good staple my one that I have is from ASOS I got it last year but this season there are so many great black coats on the high street my particular recommendation is to get something really long like I love a maxi length I think they're so dramatic and so chic but obviously it depends on what you're looking for and your height go for the longest one that you're comfortable with and also go for a little bit of structure on the shoulders it gives it that beautiful like fitted tailored almost masculine fit but it looks really elegant there's something really powerful about the silhouette of like a good fitted power shoulder coat I just adore it and also I feel like this is the dressier coat that you're going to have in your wardrobe so if you're going out for drinks or dinner or the party season this is the coat you're going to have draped over your shoulders when you have your beautiful outfit on it's really elegant so again I will link some of my favorite black coats in the description below and you may have seen on my channel I have a video dedicated to the best high street coats at the moment it really is full of so many recommendations so if you're looking for something go and check that out that leads me nicely on to the next recommendation in my winter wardrobe checklist and it is the tan or neutral coat so I don't recommend that you need a bunch of coats but I would say go for a dark and go for a neutral like a lighter color and this is going to stand you in good stead so when it comes to the tan or neutral coat again I do think that it's something that you absolutely can dress up for the evening but it's great for day wear as well it's great for your work wear wardrobe so if you're going for the classic tan which I think is a no-brainer it's a shade that really works for everybody or you go for a lighter color I think the cream off-white coats are so chic it is a little bit harder to keep clean but it is so beautiful and definitely a dressier more kind of occasion wear coat but I feel like tan, oat, lighter brown colors work just as well so again I will link some in the description below the one that I have here is by Naked Fashion it is a few years old there's something very similar on the high street by Weekday which I will link in the description below now the very last piece in my 10-piece winter capsule wardrobe checklist it's quite a mouthful is the bomber jacket and again this is like a midway point between your bigger coats and your blazers the bomber jacket is going to give you a nice bit of warmth it's going to look nice and cool it's not quite as dressy as your longer coats but it still works for daytime into the evening as well so the one that I am wearing here is by River Island they do some great bombers this one in particular I love because it's kind of a wool material again the price is really really good and I would go for this in a slightly larger size I would size up one size and I do think with the bombers they're so easy to style they look so cool they definitely are a trend that's been sticking around for the past few years I do think that they're a little bit more geared towards the daytime and casual wear than the evening but they still look really really good in the evening time like you can definitely dress them up I love the grey bombers are just really cool and again if you have your tan coat and your black color a grey is a really nice color to mix it up but also they do a gorgeous cream color in this version as well and it is so so nice so there you have it guys that is my 10 piece winter capsule wardrobe checklist these are my ride or die staples they are the things you are going to be seeing me the most in if you've not seen me in them already if you follow me over on my Instagram you'll have seen all these pieces a lot and they're just the items that I think I get the most value out of for my wardrobe they're the best cost per wear and that's why I'm so delighted to be able to bring you a discount like the one that I have for LilySilk it is 15% off with the code KIRAYT15 and of course if you spend over 500 you will be able to use the code KIRAYT20 for 20% off and you know what? it actually makes such a difference when you are picking up these staples to get a chunk like that off everything will be linked in the description below as I mentioned if you liked this video you can give me a thumbs up to let me know I will be following up this video with my 10 piece accessory capsule wardrobe checklist just like we did last season so stay tuned for that it will have all of the accessories that I'll be using to style up these outfits and really finish them off so stay tuned for that and if you have not already then be sure to subscribe to my channel I post new videos every single week and I would love to have you back for more thank you so much for watching and I will see you in my next one bye