Yes, it's true. Phoebe Philo - darling of the fashion world, whose first collection under her own name went on sale last week - has put leggings front and centre of the clothes on offer.
Yes, it's true. Phoebe Philo — darling of the fashion world, whose first collection under her own name went on sale last week — has put leggings front and centre of the clothes on offer.
Just when we were getting used to baggier and baggier trousers, just when we really had put away the skinny jeans for good and accepted that leg-clinging looks are over, it's beginning to look a lot like leggings will be top of the fashion charts for Christmas.There are leggings in H&M , Zara and in Mango . Yesterday, Marks & Spencer announced customers had snapped up almost half a million pairs of its £17.
When Philo says haute leggings are what her customers want, you know that if you haven't seen them around yet, you will.Hers come with wavy chevron detailing and a zip pocket in the back and are cut low on the foot with a split at the ankle. They look a lot like the leggings you wear to walk the dog, or to go to the gym, but on the website they're paired with a big-shouldered, padded leather coat, high platform mules with gleaming buckles and big earrings.
We all remember those high-waisted black spandex leggings Olivia Newton-John wore in Grease in 1978 and some of us tried to copy. There was the Lycra and cotton pair you wore with a big sweater, tucked into three-quarter-length boots in the 1980s; the thicker, almost ski-pant style that worked with a smart jacket and loafers in the 1990s; and the smooth faux-leather pair that you wore in the 2000s with a polo-neck sweater and biker boots.
Now every fourth woman you see in the street is wearing what could be a pair of tights, leaving very little to the imagination. Mamils have their cycling shorts; Mawils and younger women have their exercise leggings which they feel comfortable wearing pretty much anywhere. Maybe it's even revenge for the cycling shorts.
Your top half needs to be oversize and strong shouldered to contrast with the spray-on skimpy bottom — hence the Henry VIII silhouette leather coat showcased by Philo — and the heels are essential, both to elongate your legs and to give these haute leggings the glamourous lift that separates them from those other leggings we've all got in the weekend/loungewear drawer.
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