fashion week, held in less than ideal circumstances (some brands, such as Burberry, are still citing Covid problems as the reason they didn’t show this week) also happened to produce some of the most elegant clothes seen in years.
Let me stick my neck out here – possibly some of the most elegant ever.It was all the more notable because elegance is not traditionally in plentiful supply on any catwalks.
Edginess, outrageousness, “heightened reality”, yes. Elegance, however, is generally dismissed as rather an outdated notion.
Weird. And yet several designers mentioned it as a consideration backstage this season. “If you remember, femininity was seen as uncool at one point,” Roksanda Ilinčić said backstage at her show.
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