Dione Tartan Splice Dress

Tartan didn't start in the mall. It started on moors and ended up safety-pinned to jackets outside shows in 1977, and it never really left.

The Dione Tartan Splice Dress from Heartless does something smart with the format, splicing panels to break the pattern and give the whole thing a fractured, punky energy that sits comfortably in the lineage of plaid-as-rebellion. It's the kind of dress that reads as gothic and grunge at once, the dark aesthetic crowd and the punk crowd both clocking it and nodding. The splice construction means the silhouette has movement and contrast built in, not just a flat block of tartan but something with actual visual tension.

Shell: 100% Polyacrylic. Lining: 74% Viscose, 22% Polyester, 4% Elastane. Available in Small. From Heartless.