From the shower to the show, A-listers are giving bathrobes a go. At the intersection of coziness and couture are haute housecoats, rising as the cold season’s hottest frocks thanks to Kylie Jenner, Rihanna and Angelina Jolie. “Women just want to be comfortable this fall,” Upper East Side stylist Jamie Lewis tells The Post of the buzzy “bathrobe dress” trend.
“It’s all about being comfy, sexy, showing some skin and feeling good.” And it’s hard to feel anything less than your best while swaddled in fluffy finery. The voguish turn towards bathrobes comes as unfussy fashionistas of NYC and beyond relax deeper into post-pandemic unpretentiousness.
Since the dark days of quarantine, during which most folks donned oversized sweats and plushy loungewear around the clock, tastemakers have artfully married luxury and leisure to create perfect aprés-lockdown looks. Posh attendees of last month’s New York Fashion Week wowed in baggy shorts à la Adam Sandler , 58, whose signature schlub earned him style-icon status throughout the global health crisis. And the cool kids of Gen Z have recently anointed “sweatpants jeans” — cushy cotton bottoms known to millennials as “jeggings” — the faux-denim saviors of fashion.
But it was Jenner, 27, the generation’s de facto leader, who put bathrobes on the map when she sported a black, velveteen piece during Paris Fashion Week in January. The Khy tycoon strutted through the City of Light in Christian Louboutin pum.