You couldn't truly call yourself a style expert in the '90s if your favorite outfit formula wasn't a collarless blazer and jeans. From Hollywood stars to Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, this was the two-step way to look effortlessly cool in an instant. Decades later, it was only a matter of time before Sarah Pidgeon, CBK's Love Story doppelgänger, fell for the easiest way to elevate jeans, too.
When Pidgeon stopped by a March 18 taping of The Kelly Clarkson Show, her interview doubled as a tutorial for styling a blazer with jeans. First, stylist Emma Jade Morrison traded a CBK-looking black blazer for something more modern: the collarless blazer trend. Since Marie Claire's fashion editor, Lauren Tappan, called it the "elegant coat trend" she couldn't stop wearing, Gabrielle Union, Tessa Thompson, Margot Robbie, Hailey Bieber, and Teyana Taylor have all tested collarless blazers. The cinched waist and button-less closure of Pidgeon's gray version set it apart from her fellow celebrity predecessors.
