Distressed And Deconstructed

Distressed fashion has a deliberately worn and imperfect aesthetic. Slashed garments became fashionable as far back as the Renaissance, and designers began experimenting with irregularly bleached fabrics during the 1960s. By the 1980s, both of these ideas were often combined with unfinished edges, asymmetry, and visible construction techniques that became known as deconstruction. While some of these clothes may still seem more extreme than wearable, deconstruction has become a critical component of the fashion lexicon.