El Huracan dress by Ella Sharp | scarf as headpiece | assorted vintage jewellery | faux fur coat | Cherry Lush lipstick by Tom Ford

I am drawn to garments that morph as you do. The days you feel glamorous, they do that with you. The low-key in between phases, well they pare back to suit that mood too.

Ella Sharp’s lace Tango (that would be the Latin dance and not the drink of the same name) inspired dress, entitled El Huracan, has that quality.

A winner at the BrandAlley Evening Black Dress competition (honored to have been part of the judging panel), Sharp’s El Huracan is much more than an evening dress. With its high neck and finely constructed panel form, there is a sinuous character to the it that felt reassuring.

That assured state of being, that is versatile enough to adapt to suit the circumstance, was just what I wanted on the night of the Screen Nation Awards 2011.

I attended the event with AMAA award winning actress Ama K.Abebrese (a nominee for a best actress award). On the night the dress did its thing (emote a retro glamor that is the love child of the Tango and old Hollywood) but more importantly, it also let me do mine. It let me do me.

The perfect garments are those that fulfill their duties while giving us the room to grow. They travel with us. Like the sinuous twists and turns of a river or the Tango, they like the El Huracan evolve as we do.

They follow our lead on the journey that is the personal style led experience.

Ella Sharp talks about the design here.

More on BrandAlley’s Evening Black Dress competition here.

Catch up on my Style Diary here.