Woman & Home South Africa

10 buys you’ll still be wearing in 10 YEARS

Many fashion women have a kind of ‘uniform’. They buy the very best versions of the items they like – and that like them. Items that will ideally last them a decade, if not more. They buy for keeps, in other words.

Take Elizabeth Saltzman, who styles celebrities like Uma Thurman and Gwyneth Paltrow. She may pick out all sorts of wondrous red carpet-appropriate flights of fancy for her clients, but for herself she has what she describes, without a hint of embarrassment, as her uniform. (This woman wears the best navy trousers and cream silk tops I have ever laid eyes on.) What’s more,

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