The one-legged pants, the lame trend that seduces designers

Shorts or pants?

Making it easier for the eternally undecided, some designers have found bold ways to combine the two.

The beast: the shape of asymmetrical pants, which reveals one leg, and covers the second.

Coupled with a half-skirt at Luar or half panties, half leggings for Rodarte, this piece, surprising to say the least, flourishes in the spring-summer 2022 collections. Even the Italian label Dolce & Gabbana succumbs to the trend, by removing a leg of a cargo model during its fall-winter 2022 show.

Although unusual, the half-pants are making a nice place on a dozen podiums this season.

But it was the NBA floors that saw him arrive first, more than 20 years ago.

Dolce & Gabbana fall-winter 2022-2023 show.

(Milan, February 26, 2022).

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Rodarte, spring-summer 2022 show. (New York, September 11, 2022).

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Luar, spring-summer 2022 show. (New York, September 12, 2021).

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Asymmetrical pants: 3-point basket?

We are in 2001, when the equipment manufacturer Under Armor markets the first one-legged leggings intended for basketball players.

Designed to protect a fragile knee, the compression garment quickly finds its place in the stylistic panoply of the basketball player.

Today, it's fashion's turn to put a leg out, in a quest not for skincare but rather for uniqueness.

"We live in a time of questioning the system," designer Sarah Aphrodite tells

, who herself pulled a leg out of one of her designs.

“Cutting into pants is also a way of putting our habits into perspective,” she continues.

An artistic approach that will hoist asymmetrical pants to the top of the basket?