Low Waist Things in Spring-Summer Collections
IN A CONSTANT WONDERZINE HEAD talks about trends from the podium that can be adapted for your wardrobe for the next six months. In this issue, we understand how to replace the high-waisted things came pants, shorts and skirts, fully opening the belly.
How it all began
Things with a low waist first gained popularity in the 60s on the wave of universal emancipation: flares and skirts, opening the navel, were worn not only by Woodstock visitors, but also by musicians. Remember though Jim Morrison in leather trousers on the hips, even though the indiscreet stripes of Jimi Hendrix. The fashion for an open belly was preserved in the 70s - at this time they used to show off their navels in sparkles in all discos. The 90s, the decade that had the strongest influence on today's fashion, can be called the Age of Bare Stomach. The British magazine The Face released in 1993 a issue whose cover is adorned by young Kate Moss in jeans with a low waist, Madonna wears a velvet Gucci suit with a low waist, Alexander McQueen in almost every collection during the 90s includes things with such a low waist that they barely cover causal places. Calvin Klein also monetizes emancipation by launching advertising campaigns in which the branded elastic of underwear necessarily sticks out from under jeans. By the beginning of the 2000s, under the influence of fashion on Piercing and Britney Spears clips, girls all over the world pierce their navels and not without difficulty, but still get into jeans with a low waist, and by 2002, American Vogue recognized low waist as the "trend of the season."
How to wear a low waist now
It's only been some five years since we all got used to the things with high waists - they effectively hide the flaws of the figure and allow you to wear even crop tops without a twinge of conscience. However, the fashion for a naked belly has returned - we can see things with a low waist even in couture collections. Most designers treat low-waisted things exactly like in the 90s, combining them with microtops in the form of conditional strips of fabric. Kate and Laura Malliwi, the designers of the brand Rodarte, are seriously experimenting this season, relying not on the classic for their brand dresses of complex work, but on simple shirts buttoned on the upper buttons and opening the belly, microtops, low waist and caps backwards. Rodarte is turning to the 1980s Los Angeles theme and the girls chola style, which is now actively exploited by Nicki Minaj. Carol Lim and Umberto Leon, who work for Kenzo, combine cropped jeans with microtopes, leaving the stomach open, and under a classic jacket, they suggest wearing low-rise trousers and a crochet top.
Marta Marquez and Paulo Almeida for Marques'Almeida and the rather conservative brand Trussardi are trekking low-waist classically in the style of the 90s: once again a bare belly and microtops. Tommy Hilfiger shows neoprene skirts, shorts and pants that barely hang around the hips. Simon Port Jacmusus produces low-rise pink skirts. Marc Jacobs for such a serious brand as Louis Vuitton, builds a half of the collection around the jeans on the hips. Jil Sander show how to wear low-waist clothes even to the office. And the Chanel show of the future autumn-winter season opens with Cara Delevingne, defiling on the catwalk in a pink top and trousers with a chain-ornament on the stomach. Alexander Wang shows microtopes and low-waisted things in the 2015 cruise collections of Balenciaga and Alexander Wang, combining a bare belly with jackets and jackets of exaggerated volumes. Naked belly, like on the Nazir Mazhar show, copies Jeremy Scott, creating a classic combination: mini-skirts and low-waist shorts plus crop tops.
Beware!
We won’t be original: to not walk in a city with a bare stomach, you need to swing the press, run in parks and stop eating junk food, then you can dress exactly the same way as 12-16 years old. Things with a low waist should be worn very carefully, beware of protruding underwear, against which even Barack Obama spoke at MTV in 2008 and for which in Louisiana a fine or six months is waiting for you in a correctional colony is a horror, but apparently not in vain. Jeans with low waist, any transforming into a teenager, we recommend to leave for younger sisters - it is better to give preference to light trousers, wide or short. If the choice falls on shorts or a skirt with a low waist, a large jacket, trench coat or jacket, which can be thrown over the top, is useful, in this case, you can take as a guide the latest collections of Alexander Wang.
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