Patina as proof: The shift from quiet luxury to lived-in aesthetics.
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Does the rise of distressed luxury reflect a hunger for texture, memory, and evidence of real human use?
“There’s something nice about how dirty it was, and how beat up it was. Like wrinkles on someone’s face. You can only get that through experience and time.” A creative director said this to me recently, talking about a pair of Converse Chuck Taylors he saw in Hanover’s look book. Hanover by Chris Black featuring Worn In Chuck Taylor All Stars Yesterday I came across an image of a heavily worn, dirt-marked canvas Birkin with a Carhartt patch on it. It reminded me of this quote and made me think about how we are starting to see a swing away from quiet luxury towards grimy, lived-in, patina…
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