Winnie Harlow was the picture of nineties streetwear, swaggering onto the Tommy Hilfiger runway at 2021’s Fashion Awards. Signature bandeau; gold hoops and chains; branded baggy jeans slung low around the hips. And the pièce de résistance? Logo splashed boxer shorts peeping above her belt. Yes, the ones rarely seen since the mid-noughties.
Calvin Klein and Hilfiger were the American mega-brands that cemented the status of waistbands-for-show more than 30 years ago, when their names were inseparable from the hip-hop and skater sets. Now clips of Mark Wahlberg dropping his jeans to show off crisp CK boxers on that 1993 APLA Benefit catwalk circulate once again, and today’s top designers have decided to follow suit.
