There are rules that you're supposed to follow if you want to wear denim-on-denim. I've even written about them; they include things like making sure the denim pieces are different weights and colors, breaking up the look with pops of color, et cetera et cetera.

But honestly? To me, the key to this look is dealing with the fact that you're wearing head-to-toe denim and maybe overdoing it just a bit. Nothing wrong with that.

How I broke up this particular denim-on-denim look: with brown leather accents (and a touch of floral), and - most importantly - a shot of neon. Ooh, those heels.

During my junior year of college, I decided to take a semester to study abroad in London. I enrolled at University College London, and ended up living in a dorm room that looked very much like a prison cell (complete with a serious mildew-and-spiders problem, oh my god) but was fortunately located in a part of town that - to my mind, anyway - was definitely the coolest.

The best part of where we lived: it was about a two-minute walk away from the Camden markets, a sort of linked-up bunch of retail shops that sold everything from souvenirs to club wear to food and antiques. (If none of this is still true, apologies - we're working from 10-year-old memories here.) I didn't do a lot of shopping while I lived in London, actually (because of the whole Terrible Exchange Rate issue), but I did buy a few things.

And my favorite thing that I bought was this skirt.