Hype vs heritage: can Vetements- the label which brought us £900 jeans- ever hope for a permanent place in our wardrobes?

Vetements' cult DHL t-shirt 
Vetements' cult DHL t-shirt  Credit: Nurphoto

Demna Gvasalia and his brother, Gurum, launched their label, Vetements, back in 2014. The house’s subversive, streetwear-inspired collections immediately captured both the fashion zeitgeist, and the imagination of a generation of followers. Amongst its offerings were the now legendary £185 DHL t-shirt, £900 reworked vintage jeans and cigarette-lighter heeled sock boots- demand was stratospheric and Vetements rapidly achieved cult status. 

Snapped up by stockists, from Net-a-Porter to Nordstrom, and photographed on the back of a plethora of street style stars, by mid-2015 the label’s popularity had reached fever pitch- queues snaked down streets when new drops landed and pieces sold out online...

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