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‘It’s very silly and it feels like fun’: bubble skirts are making a comeback

On the catwalk and on the street this summer, a new generation has revived the 1950s, 80s and 00s puffball

The bubble skirt’s rise has also been helped by its wearers – celebrities such as Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Dean, as well as fashionable twentysomethings in enclaves including east London’s Dalston. “As a child of the early 90s I’ve seen a lot of images of my mother in her youth from the 80s wearing bubble skirts and dresses, so it’s also been an association within the past years to the style of the 80s,” he says. Eni Subair, fashion features director at the Face, says that even if lots of bubble skirt wearers can’t afford high prices, designs like Esh’s are essential to the trend spreading.

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