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GIRDLES IN THE SPOTLIGHT
With Wuthering Heights landing this week, a familiar silhouette is back in focus: the girdle, worn not beneath the look, but as the look.
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Last week’s Wuthering Heights press tour gave us a fashion moment we couldn’t ignore. For a London photocall, Margot Robbie stepped out in a complete John Galliano Spring 1992 look, including a girdle worn unapologetically as a skirt, styled with stockings.
Galliano has long been fascinated by lingerie as outerwear, and this early-90s ensemble clearly foreshadows his later work at Dior, where girdles, corsetry and foundationwear were repeatedly brought to the surface and treated as fashion in their own right. It’s a bold, deliberate way of dressing, and one that feels very relevant right now.
The images featured here are from one of our own shoots from many years ago with Missy Malone, originally inspired by Galliano’s later Dior-era styling. Long before this press moment, we paired our Glamour Open Bottom Girdle and fully fashioned stockings with a vintage jacket, exploring that same idea of structure, sensuality and lingerie stepping out of the shadows.
All of this ties neatly into the conversation around the new Wuthering Heights adaptation, directed by Emerald Fennell (Saltburn) with costumes by Jacqueline Durran (Little Women, Atonement: yes, that green dress). The film, released later this week on 13 February, leans heavily into 1950s-inspired styling; strong waists, sculpted silhouettes and couture references; and has already sparked plenty of discussion for its dramatic, stylised approach.
GET THE LOOK
Our Glamour Open Bottom Girdle is key to achieving that classic 1950s shape. Designed to sit firmly on the waist, it offers medium control to smooth the tummy, hips and derriere, creating a clean line under fitted dresses or skirts: or worn boldly as part of the outfit. Made from flexible powermesh with a satin front panel and six sturdy metal suspenders, it keeps your stockings perfectly in place while delivering authentic vintage glamour.
Sometimes fashion history, film and lingerie all line up at once. This feels like one of those moments.
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