And it wasn’t just the carpet. A few days earlier, at the Dior and W Magazine pre-Oscars dinner, Kendall Jenner wore a black scarf around her neck, ends trailing behind her, paired with a kurti top, and Harper’s Bazaar ran the headline: “makes me want to style my scarf like this.” An elegant styling trick, they said, like something she’d been experimenting with all Fashion Month. Not one word about where this drape comes from, about the fact that this is a garment with a name, a region of origin, a specific function within a specific cultural context, that women on the Indian subcontinent have been wearing in some form for over two thousand years. Just: elegant, try it at home.
