Forget utility , fashion’s celebrating the utterly impractical . Bring out the belts—only we’re not referring to those functional numbers that actually go into belt loops; in fact, they’ll go everywhere but. The past few runway seasons have seen a steady return to the era of the futile belt, but it’s one we had already begun to see when Y2K nostalgia started creeping back into our wardrobes.
Think chunky , statement belts clasped over form-fitting dresses or hip-grazing skinny belts over even skinnier jeans. For the fashion-forward, the belt renaissance also underwent a more modern twist: experimentally worn by doubling them up . If the Glastonbury, boho-chic days of Kate Moss and Sienna Miller are the images you’ve begun to conjure in your mind, then you’re on the right track.
Recent days have also seen the likes of Dua Lipa and Kaia Gerber pulling out all the stops with their own renditions, with Gerber’s tastefully executed over a long-sleeved shirt for a night out. Others might also recall the adoring ways in which every manner of belt would hang off the hips of one Destiny’s Child member: the legendary Beyoncé. Yet the evidence has been as clear as day: it is the runway on which the chaos of the unnecessary belt has been most acutely exacted—and revived.
Two cruise seasons ago, Louis Vuitton displayed a penchant for Carrie Bradshaw’s manner of belting: on naked skin. Earlier in Barcelona last month, Nicolas Ghesquière winnowed the same trick int.
