This week I’m wearing… the new retro jeans

‘They could be both new-season Celine and school gates, 1979’
From left: £100, sezane.com; Sienna Miller; £71.25, whistles.com
From left: £100, sezane.com; Sienna Miller; £71.25, whistles.com
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You can call these flares. You can call them mom jeans. You can call them a good idea or a bad. What’s indisputable is that they are an example of the fashion industry’s efforts to make us buy one more version of something we have. Fashion is not interested in the fact that you have been wearing the same cut of jeans for a decade because you like it and it likes you.

Anna Murphy wears jeans, £59.95, massimodutti.com, top, £98, jcrew.com, and shoes, £730, gianvitorossi.com
Anna Murphy wears jeans, £59.95, massimodutti.com, top, £98, jcrew.com, and shoes, £730, gianvitorossi.com
CIRCE HAMILTON

I think you have to be very young and thin to wear jeans that are fashion-forward. The same goes for jeans that are fashion-backward. Denim that is Seventies or Eighties only really works on people who weren’t alive to wear it the first time round. When it comes to denim, fashion-forward and