s ar tori a l o ddit i e s Highlights from the fashion world’s AW20 (both 1920 and 2020) season collections, which range from the slightly odd, through the downright bizarre, to the actually rather useful
THE VARST In 1919, Russian Constructivists Alexander Rodchenko and Vavara Stepanova created the Varst, an all-purpose wool/ leather jump suit. Designed to create a new aesthetic for the new world of socialism, the Varst didn’t catch on with Russia’s rural peasantry, but today has a new appeal to those for whom workwear now looks far too bourgeois.
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