It is all too rarely that I get to be ahead of a Prada designer in terms of fashion, but on the important trend of the season I was on it years before Raf Simons. At the Prada show in Paris last week, he had creases and wrinkles in clothes from short shift dresses and midi skirts to grey all-in-ones. It’s part of a larger trend in fashion away from ironing.
After the show, Simons observed that the creases in his clothes were “gestures of error” designed to replicate “pieces that have had a life”. I wish that I had thought of that whenever I tried to leave home without pressing my dress and my mother would ask me whether I was actually trying to look like a pauper. “It is”, I should have said, “a gesture of error”. But being ahead of my time, people where I come from would simply have assumed that I was a lazy slattern. That’s the price you pay for being too fashion-forward.
