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

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

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. It was preceded by Prada, where backstage at the label’s spring/summer 2023 collection, co-creative director Raf Simons described deliberately creased midi skirts and shirts as “gestures of error” designed to replicate “pieces that have had a life”. Posting on Instagram, David Stark – who runs an event and design agency in New York – described an unironed Belgian linen tablecloth he unveiled at a dinner party as “an experiment in wabi sabi, the embrace of transience and imperfection”.

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