The Dictator | Where to find Bella Hadid’s ‘naked pants’
The crochet number worn by the model created ripples in Cannes recently; the trousers can be traced to Bali-based designer Andi Bagus
I’m weirdly attracted to those naked pants the celebrities have been wearing but I’m not sure I can pull them off. Advice, please.
Legging It, Sheung Wan
The celebrities you mention are a small subset of superhumanly attractive models below the age of 25 whose mothers must have taught them some interesting ideas about self-worth. There was, of course, the naked dress trend, then the naked shoe trend. I wish you’d all just move to a nudist colony and leave the rest of us alone.
Anyway, here we go ... You could really go for it with the Bali-based designer worn by Bella Hadid, Andi Bagus, whose Bingin Beach Pant (HK$539), in crocheted white cotton with a drawstring waist, is available exclusively through its website (andibagus.bigcartel.com). You might also like Rachel Comey’s squiggle lace trousers (HK$3,054).
Valentino helps you do it with discretion in its black lace culottes with a shorts-length, solid black silk georgette lining, but at a cost – HK$17,100. Mara Hoffman’s crochet cropped trousers in cream organic cotton (HK$1,367) are partially lined and seem to be rather less revealing from the high waist down the wide leg. Zimmermann creates a similar effect even though it has lined its cotton broderie anglaise trousers (HK$3,400; Lane Crawford) all the way to the hem.
