Draw up a list of fashion’s favorite muses and Anita Pallenberg, Jane Birkin, and Ali MacGraw would make the cut. But Hillary Rodham Clinton? Yes, the presidential candidate might actually be the inspiration for Spring’s most overwhelming trend: shoulder cutouts and off-the-shoulder tops.
Clinton’s just-released interview with Lena Dunham, sent out in Dunahm’s Lenny newsletter, features an in-depth conversation around the shoulder-baring Donna Karan dress Clinton wore for the 1993 state dinner as First Lady. With a high neck, large cutouts on the shoulders, and a slinky black shape, the piece looks ripped from the Spring 2016 runways. There it is at Proenza Schouler, adorned with a cascading ruffle, and again at Erdem, reimagined through an early-American lens. With Clinton in the spotlight for her presidential campaign, the style’s resurgence might be more than just a coincidence—and even she admits the trend is on the rise, telling Dunham, “Don’t you think we ought to be working on this? I think we should do more shoulder stuff.” You heard it, folks: the off-the-shoulder trend, now with a former secretary of state’s seal of approval.
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