And so: after season upon season of naked dresses, heirloom lingerie—less lascivious, more utilitarian in design—is being mainstreamed. Mere days after Rihanna was photographed in a corseted Dolce & Gabbana bodysuit dating back to the 1990s, Kaia Geber was papped in a delicate, lace-trimmed bralette beneath a slim-cut suit while arriving at a screening for her new film, Saturday Night. She looked as though she had been rifling not through her mother’s bombshell archive, but her grandmother’s drawers. The look is, as Alice Newbold wrote here, “a flouncy kind of femininity” and “a richly adorned romance” that perhaps recalls “a simpler, prettier time.”
