The holiday season arrives with frequent opportunities to step out after work. Outfits should be exciting, but still dynamic enough to take you from day to night. Here’s what you ought to do: ensemble pieces with engaging personality, impeccable tailoring, and luxe details. Go conventional in dresses or coordinate a fabulous look with skirts and sweaters. Over-the-top dresses, beaded and embroidered sets, an unmatched statement coat, and more take winter luxe to the next level.

Winter blues meet shades of brown, green, and more blues. Steel blue, navy, and dark denim all come into their own this season. Layer a floral blouse with a multi-cable jean jacket in Spanish jacquard that looks like denim over cropped jeans. Layer a lace trimmed sweater jacket over a cashmere sweater and crisp white blouse, team them with a pair of plaid pants. Fresh knit pieces have novelty to spare. A knit crew neck has a detached button funnel that can be styled countless ways. Champagne beige pieces are richly detailed with cable and rope stitches. Multiple pieces lend themselves easily to layering in a color palette that translates into so many ensembles.

A selection of pieces that are so unique in style that everyone will want to know where you got them from. Tuxedo pants, suitable for New Year’s Eve, are actually jeans in a ravishing Italian houndstooth fabric. A black velvet evening dress with satin pleats and a skinny belt is constructed like a cozy spa robe. The pieces in jester red drive home the ethos of holiday personality. A pleated Italian gabardine jacket is one half of the season’s entree into power suiting. The premier sweater of the decade has blouson sleeves and an over-the-top cable design, fabulous over ivory gabardine pants or leather-trimmed riding leggings. And wait, there’s more…