‘Gestures of error’: how fashion is embracing crinkled couture

‘Gestures of error’: how fashion is embracing crinkled couture

In this week’s newsletter: A generation terrified of wrinkles is embracing creases in their clothes, as the purposefully rumpled look is turning up everywhere from the Cannes red carpet to the high street

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The red carpet at the Cannes film festival is the pinnacle of glamour. Every inch of that floor-sweeping gown and each falling hair tendril has been picked over by stylists and “glam squads”. So when film director and Cannes jury president Greta Gerwig appeared on the red carpet last week in a dress that was wrinkled, you would be forgiven for thinking that someone was about to be fired.

But Gerwig’s hot-pink Balenciaga couture gown wasn’t accidentally creased, a pesky side-effect of a car ride from hotel to Croissette. It was intentional – from asymmetric shoulder right down to the hemline, it was corrugated like a hot tin roof.

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