Loopsided skirts are trending From Saint Laurent's “bata de cola” to Prada's shirt-skirt

French architect Le Corbusier once said that symmetry is the gesture of the rational mind, while asymmetry is the mark of freedom. It seems that in this process of radical transformation that the fashion system is undergoing, the practices and techniques at the heart of designers' creative processes are also changing. After a phase marked by the return of formalwear and the reassuring precision of quiet luxury minimalism, contemporary fashion creators are rebelling against this rigidity, reclaiming the freedom to design wrinkled, torn, dirty garments—or, in the case of skirts, asymmetric ones. Slanted hems, unbalanced volumes, irregular cuts: the skirts presented by brands this season are all “badly cut”.

Other brands play with asymmetries and fringe: Ferragamo presents a matching set featuring a high-low skirt with fringed edges, while Sacai’s FW25 includes a plaid asymmetric skirt with fringe that resembles a blanket. Another widespread variation of this irregular skirt is the wrap skirt, seen in pleated form at Thom Browne and Coperni for winter collections, and in the SS25 show by Courrèges with a long side train. The asymmetric skirt trend reaches its full expression through total deconstruction. At Louis Vuitton, Resort 2026 features a skirt with uneven ruffles in Lycra-like fabric; Ludovic De Saint Sernin offers a leather version made of thinly laced, partially stitched strips; and Yohji Yamamoto presents a “post-atomic” summer skirt made of torn black pinstriped fabric, a testament to a kind of uniqueness and beauty only asymmetry can provide.