Ripped jeans have, by and large, been absent from the spotlight in recent times – which is thanks, in part, to the polished and pristine styles that flooded the market post “quiet luxury”. MM6 Maison Margiela has long championed manipulated fabrications and for spring, the design collective dipped into the expansive Margiela archive and reworked some of the brand’s greatest techniques. The result? Trousers that peeled with the label’s signature dried-paint effect and jeans with many, many vertical splices to reveal the material’s frays.
Not your regular waistband
High-waisted, low-waisted, mid-rise – there are several waistband heights to choose from in the denim market, but what about the shape or cut of said waistband? Kendall Jenner walked the Schiaparelli runway in jeans with a U-shaped dip at the front and back, paired with a stretch-corset bodysuit. “Not your basic five-pocket style denim,” Nicole Phelps surmised in her review of Daniel Roseberry’s unique approach to ready-to-wear. See also: asymmetric jeans from Y/Project, JW Anderson and Agolde.
This story first appeared on British Vogue.
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