Never has there been a greater need for diversion and distraction. For some, escaping the reality of the pandemic involves a flight of fancy – immersing yourself in the pages of a fashion magazine, finding yourself as awestruck at the beauty and structure of the clothes as only a woman who’s spent the last two months in sweatpants can be.
As Telegraph head of style Lisa Armstrong recently noted, ‘Beautiful items I used to speed past because they were impractical, over the top or “not me” are slowing me in my tracks.
I’m allowing myself to enjoy them without any thought of actually wearing them. It’s a bit like being in a museum of Picassos and Klimts – looking is enough.’ You may prefer to escape via a dive-deep into historical fiction,
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