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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Lifestyle
Hannah Marriott

The fashion industry wants women to wear bras again - but is underwire the answer?

Rihanna smiles at a fashion show
Rihanna at the Matières Fécales fashion show in Paris on 28 September. Photograph: Aitor Rosas Sune/WWD/Getty Images

It’s a trend that might have been expected to be kept under the radar – or at least under a T-shirt. But high fashion’s recent endorsement of underwire bras could not have been more visible.

This fashion month, underwear as outerwear was omnipresent on catwalks, with underwire bras in red and black satin at Prada and black and silver at Tom Ford. At the Matieres Fecales show, Rihanna wore a bra from her own Savage X Fenty range peeking out of her unbuttoned jacket.

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