Straight - Talking A Little Bit Off
Grazia|November 2017

I won’t lie; I’m slightly flummoxed by fashion right now.

Navaz Batliwalla
Straight - Talking A Little Bit Off

All the information overload, the ‘buy me, buy me’ messaging, it’s exhausting for a minimalist like me. And most bemusing of all is the current penchant for extreme asymmetry. Oh Demna Gvasalia, look what you’ve done!

Gvasalia kicked off the haute skewed aesthetic two seasons ago with his Balenciaga puffer jackets that appeared as if they had been half yanked off the shoulders. How we recoiled! How we laughed! How we immediately ran to copy the lopsided-on purpose gesture with every piece of outerwear we owned. It was one of the most ridiculous fashion suggestions of recent times, yet perversely, one of the most popular.

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