The Amorphous Allure of Bedsheet-Core A new type of dress has appeared on the runways, and we are intrigued

The day after the Bottega Veneta Milan show, whose closing look was a sweeping dress draped around the body and held in place by a clasp at the shoulder, creator Angelica Hicks posted a TikTok parodying the look by wrapping a black bedsheet around her body and simulating, with tights and a black silicone oven mitt folded under her arm, the accessories worn by Kendall Jenner. Beyond the humorous aspect of the video, it's curious to note that there's a kernel of truth in the joke: several garments seen on the runway in London, Milan, and even in the very first days of Paris were all drape, with minimal or barely visible construction, and a tendency to envelop the body in a way that is total yet fluid.

Of course, these garments were not all alike, but they were grounded in a more or less common principle: the movement or flou of the garment in question was loosely controlled, almost deliberately naturalistic, since these pieces, in their various ways, were made up of masses of fabric dramatically draped and wrapped around the body. In many different cases ornamentation was minimal, as the knot, the folds of the fabric, and the astonishing lengths that resolved into a cape were the protagonists.

The trend is particularly curious. What aspect of our modern culture, or what market demand, has pushed so many different designers to propose garments of this kind?