Lace, visible lingerie, messy hair and smudged makeup have moved from the bedroom to the street, as designers try to strip the old moral judgment from a once-loaded phrase and turn imperfection into a new kind of beautyDiesel’s fashion show at Milan Fashion Week in February looked like the aftermath of a long, chaotic night. Models walked the runway in clothes wrapped around the body with deliberate carelessness. Their smoky eye makeup looked as if it had been left over from the night before. Their hair was messy. The air seemed heavy with sex. What was once treated as a moment of embarrassment has now become a full aesthetic.The fall-winter 2026-27 shows cemented one of fashion’s fastest-growing trends: the ‘walk of shame,’ a phrase describing the morning-after return home from a party, date or intimate encounter, still wearing last night’s clothes, often wrinkled, disheveled and out of place in daylight.9 View gallery A pioneer of the trend: Tom Ford’s fall-winter 2024-25 show (Photo: AP Photo/Luca Bruno)9 View gallery Diesel’s fall-winter 2026-27 show (Photo: PR)"This collection is about waking up in a place, with no idea what happened last night, and you are the most glorious person ever," Diesel creative director Glenn Martens said of the inspiration behind the collection.The clothes included double-layered jersey tops tossed casually over the body and sculptural knits created through boiling and shrinking oversized sweaters."When you sneak away from the hotel room of the person who you don’t know, you are truly at your best. These are super-wearable pieces for successful living, the essence of Diesel", Martens said. Or, as he put it in a video interview with Vogue’s Instagram account, the move is from “walk of shame” to “walk of fame.”A TV version of the same idea appeared in the recent Ryan Murphy series "Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette". In one scene, Carolyn Bessette spends the night at John F. Kennedy Jr.’s apartment in Tribeca, then has to improvise an outfit for work the next morning. (From: Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette)The solution is Kennedy’s white button-down shirt, worn quickly and paired with an elegant black skirt. Murphy’s decision to linger on that moment is no accident. In the series’ interpretation, this is how one of Bessette’s most recognizable style signatures was born: the white button-down shirt she would go on to wear at every opportunity.Martens is not the only designer to move from the bedroom to the runway. At Valentino, a model appeared in lingerie under a long, thin furry coat. At Saint Laurent and Dolce & Gabbana, models walked in lace garments inspired by seductive lingerie.9 View gallery Dolce & Gabbana’s fall-winter 2026-27 show