HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?

Shown at Paris Fashion Week, Miu Miu’s SS22 collection has elicited both consternation and condemnation for its short skirts and ultra low-rise waists, which hark back to the 2000s. Some critics say the look promotes a toxic diet culture, but as a pot-bellied person, I have to stick up for the low-rise waist, albeit I won’t be baring my midriff any time soon. Unless you have an extremely flat stomach, the alternative — the high-rise waist — feels like a straightjacket that fashion has trapped us in for way too long. So thank you, Miu Miu, for your services to waistband diversity.