Anna Kosturova’s crochet returns to Who What Wear’s festival moment

When Who What Wear marked two decades of fashion history this year, selecting twenty aesthetics that shaped the past twenty years, the inclusion of festival wear felt less like a retrospective glance and more like a mirror held up to cyclical style. Handmade crochet, the defining textile of Coachella’s golden age, returns not as nostalgia but as a quiet truth: some techniques, once mastered, never truly fade.

Anna Kosturova’s work first graced that era through the Crochet Tango Dress, worn by supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio when festival fashion meant something raw and unfiltered. The silhouette was intricate, delicate, and unmistakably handcrafted, each loop a small act of devotion to the form. Two decades later, the Marianne Crochet Skirt carries that same philosophy forward: panels of open work crochet building a midi length with a fluid, tiered sensibility. The cream version, exclusively available through Mytheresa, catches light as only handmade crochet does, the spaces between the yarn creating shadow and depth that mass production cannot replicate.

What distinguishes Anna Kosturova’s vision is its refusal to surrender to trend. While festival fashion has cycled through interpretations, the house remains faithful to the core principle: crochet as both garment and craft, utility and beauty fused in a single thread. The Marianne appears also in white and vintage rose, available through the brand’s own channels, each colourway a quiet invitation to the same timeless conversation the Tango Dress began all those years ago.

The recognition from Who What Wear is less a validation of the present than an acknowledgement of the enduring. In fashion, where reinvention is the constant, Anna Kosturova’s constancy, still handmade, still crochet, still reaching toward the same quiet luxuries, reads as its own form of courage.

Imagery courtesy of Anna Kosturova (@annakosturova).