Tied up in knots: why the humble scarf is your new style hero

Moving beyond its primary role of keeping the neck warm, the silk scarf is now a way to add creative flair to any outfit

• Read more from the spring/summer 2020 edition of The Fashion, our biannual style supplement

A few scarves have made fashion’s history books. Among them, Audrey Hepburn’s, worn for moped rides on Roman trysts, and the silky ones thought to have been used by Queen Nefertiti. Then there was, of course, Lenny Kravitz’s duvet-sized scarf, circa 2012.

For SS20, though, the silky scarves that are having a moment are not always worn at necklines. At Burberry, they were fashioned into jagged-hem skirts or stitched across chests. Entire outfits, from slip dresses to trousers, looked to be made from stitched-together scarves at Erdem, while at Preen, “experimentation with the idea of ‘the scarf’” saw Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi borrowing its aesthetic for dresses.

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