Jean mapping

Low-rise jeans are slipping back into style. They're on runways, red carpets, high streets. Why is this a terrible idea? Let us count the ways...

- Rachel Lopez

All through 2022, we dismissed them as one-offs. But to everyone's horror, lowrise jeans tight on the hip, fitted at the crotch-seem here to stay.

Willow Smith, 22, wore crystal-embellished ones to the premiere of her father Will Smith's film, Emancipation, in December. Hailey Bieber wore a denim low-rise miniskirt (ok it was pretty much a strip of denim) to her 26th birthday celebrations in Tokyo. She paired it with a cropped top, sharing the look on Instagram.

Most baffling of all, Katie Holmes has been wearing them too. She is 44 and lived through the low-rise era of the early 2000s. Surely, she must remember what a disaster it was. Let's clue you in too.