Torn jeans, tattered seams, and repurposed patches seem to have become the starter kit to any wittily deconstructed outfit. Add a couple safety pins, maybe a few ironic buttons, a cut-out or five, and voila, you’re just milliseconds away from becoming fashion’s new enfant terrible! If this were the case, there would be no point in meriting thoughtful design. Exhibits like Manus x Machina at The Metropolitan Museum of Art pay special attention to the crafting of pattern construction like pleating or draping.
Last Sunday, The New York Times’ Bill Cunningham ran a photo story just on popularity of torn jeans and their slashed counterparts. Radically ripped jeans may be a thing right now, but the 500-year-old technique of slashing fabric is nothing new. If we already know the objective is to provide an acceptable dose of rebellion and intrigue, why don’t we challenge other techniques? There’s gotta be more to deconstructed clothing than this...right? Pleating, it’s been done, knotting and draping had its comeback in 2010. As of recent, ruching has presented a whole new side of itself by way of deconstruction with designers like J.W. Anderson, Angel Chen, and Isa Arfen.
Slightly (or sometimes severely) taut at both ends to create soft rippling patterns, thereby cinching the fabric and the body underneath it, ruching and the occasional knot have become two of the most coveted candidates for deconstructing the silhouette. Bygone are the days of tightly corrugated panels cinching and swelling the body like an army of fabric swallowing up foreign territories.
As our revocations for the hourglass silhouette have come into question, so has ruching. J.W. Anderson’s Ruched Dress lends a sculptural element and a lightness–instead of accentuating the silhouette, it loosens and creates billowy polka-dotted ripples that ebb and flow down to the hem. Angel Chen’s One-Shoulder Drawstring Maxi Dress seeped in acid watermelon with jungle green strings gives total disregard to the tight, symmetrical rigidity of ruching by exploring diagonal seams irregularly stemming off of each other. It’s as if Helen of Troy went cybergoth but then decided she was just a Pre-Raphaelite fairy after all.
Jacquemus rethinks the ruche even further with his La Tunique Noeuds cotton sheath. A succession of wrapping, gathering, and knotting that creates a slight zig-zag ruching throughout. Sultry but with an unexpected twist (no pun intended), this unassuming white button-down dress has been designed to look improvised yet cinched at all the right places.
So if you’ve had enough of those elaborately ruched tops, dresses, and pants that make you feel like a human opera curtain, avoid the convention and opt for our set of designers who are reinventing ruching one gather at a time.
Shop all our ruched and knotted styles in our Slight Contortions All Together Now here.![]()
Model wears Jacquemus La Tunique Noeuds in
Last Sunday, The New York Times’ Bill Cunningham ran a photo story just on popularity of torn jeans and their slashed counterparts. Radically ripped jeans may be a thing right now, but the 500-year-old technique of slashing fabric is nothing new. If we already know the objective is to provide an acceptable dose of rebellion and intrigue, why don’t we challenge other techniques? There’s gotta be more to deconstructed clothing than this...right? Pleating, it’s been done, knotting and draping had its comeback in 2010. As of recent, ruching has presented a whole new side of itself by way of deconstruction with designers like J.W. Anderson, Angel Chen, and Isa Arfen.
Slightly (or sometimes severely) taut at both ends to create soft rippling patterns, thereby cinching the fabric and the body underneath it, ruching and the occasional knot have become two of the most coveted candidates for deconstructing the silhouette. Bygone are the days of tightly corrugated panels cinching and swelling the body like an army of fabric swallowing up foreign territories.
As our revocations for the hourglass silhouette have come into question, so has ruching. J.W. Anderson’s Ruched Dress lends a sculptural element and a lightness–instead of accentuating the silhouette, it loosens and creates billowy polka-dotted ripples that ebb and flow down to the hem. Angel Chen’s One-Shoulder Drawstring Maxi Dress seeped in acid watermelon with jungle green strings gives total disregard to the tight, symmetrical rigidity of ruching by exploring diagonal seams irregularly stemming off of each other. It’s as if Helen of Troy went cybergoth but then decided she was just a Pre-Raphaelite fairy after all.
Jacquemus rethinks the ruche even further with his La Tunique Noeuds cotton sheath. A succession of wrapping, gathering, and knotting that creates a slight zig-zag ruching throughout. Sultry but with an unexpected twist (no pun intended), this unassuming white button-down dress has been designed to look improvised yet cinched at all the right places.
So if you’ve had enough of those elaborately ruched tops, dresses, and pants that make you feel like a human opera curtain, avoid the convention and opt for our set of designers who are reinventing ruching one gather at a time.
Shop all our ruched and knotted styles in our Slight Contortions All Together Now here.
Model wears Jacquemus La Tunique Noeuds in
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