Lizzo’s Yitty is taking steps to make the brand even more inclusive. On March 30, the Grammy award-winning singer announced its new gender-affirming shapewear collection called Your Skin by Yitty. Made for people of all gender identities, the line will include binder tops and tucking thongs in Yitty’s Headliner fabric, a smooth, high-shine material with the brand’s famous shaping compression.
Here’s a paradox to digest over your morning coffee. Fashion has a female problem.
While the industry is still coming to terms with the fact that it hasn’t done nearly enough to promote young Black and Brown designers, there’s yet another important seat left empty in conglomerate boardrooms and high-end ateliers: women. Despite being some of the largest consumers and creators of fashion as garment workers, buyers, editors, and models, women are still overwhelmingly underrepresented when it comes to making the decisions with the most reverberating impact. In a world where women are expected to foot the fashion bill and have nearly $32 trillion dollars in spending power, it’s disheartening, to say the least.
While most of the dresses in this roundup boast a rather traditional construction, this fluttery mini dress has some unexpected details, like an asymmetrical drop empire waist, three-quarter sleeves, and the all-over ruffle hems. Unique? We’d sure say so.
While the design is associated with the early aughts style and prom dresses of the Betsey Johnson era, rosettes have been a part of fashion for a long time. In the 17th century, fabric roses were sewn onto women’s and men’s shoes as decoration and a sign of high social and economic status, according to Summer Ann Lee, a fashion historian and adjunct professor at Wagner College. However, throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, rosettes became increasingly associated with women’s fashion. “[Rosettes] symbolize femininity, love and beauty,” says Lee. “They’re associated with this youthful prime of your life. They’re also so ephemeral, like all flowers. Having an artificial flower that never dies is something that’s very precious to people.”
Zara churns out new arrivals at a rapid pace, so understandably, it can get tricky to find what’s truly worthy through the noise. But leave it to the internet sleuths to make Zara fun again: While the state of TikTok is in limbo, if it were to go away, one thing I would surely miss about the app is the dedicated users who filter through Zara’s latest drops in real time. If you’re not making daily visits to the store or website, it’s easy (and quite possible) to miss some true gems among the hundreds of new products. TikTok’s Zara investigators always identify the best pieces as they arrive, and when they do, it doesn’t take long for said pieces to go viral—take last summer’s internet-famous slip dress or the pink wool jacket-and-pant set that sold out like lightning.
