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Beautiful Chaos Reigns on the Runways ELLE 5/03/2021 Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. If your life feels like a never-ending parade of concentric Zoom windows, FaceTime squares, and a thousand open tabs, the fall 2021 collections suggest you’re not alone. Perhaps inspired by our ragtag lockdown uniforms of corporate casual on top, sweatpants party on the bottom, designers in London and Milan went for unusual combinations that transcended the...

Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. If your life feels like a never-ending parade of concentric Zoom windows, FaceTime squares, and a thousand open tabs, the fall 2021 collections suggest you’re not alone. Perhaps inspired by our ragtag lockdown uniforms of corporate casual on top, sweatpants party on the bottom, designers in London and Milan went for unusual combinations that transcended the typical styling tricks to reflect our fractured, fragm...

Milan Fashion Week A/W 2021: designers riff on romp and relaxation Milan Fashion Week A/W 2021: designers riff on romp and relaxation Milan Fashion Week offered a wardrobe for life after lockdown, by brands including Fendi, Prada, Salvatore Ferragamo, Valentino and Giorgio Armani   Prada A/W 2021 As fashion journalists spend another season taking in fashion shows remotely, through a screen, there’s been much chatter behind the scenes regarding how they might emerge style-wise next season, w...

This is turning into a season of swaddling clothes; of adult snugglies and softness; of clothes so squishy they are like a portable form of self-care.

Can Fashion Be a Form of Self-Care? Collections from Marni, Valentino and Armani suggest the answer is yes. Toucha-toucha-toucha touch me. Marni, fall 2021.Credit...via Marni March 2, 2021 Handshakes, hugs, pats on the back, even air kisses that just brush the cheek — these basic modes of human interaction have been put on hold in the pandemic, replaced with the pallid substitutes of elbow bumps, six-feet-away waves and glimpses of loved ones through glass. We hunger for physical interaction,...

Exactly a year ago, on a Sunday morning in Milan, my colleagues and I were lining up to congratulate Raf Simons on his new job at Prada. That day, amid news of the pandemic, Giorgio Armani would be the first designer to cancel attendance for his show. After Dolce & Gabbana – where I can first recall hesitating before hugging – I rushed through the streets and back to the lobby of the Grand, which soon turned into the Fashion Situation Room. Phones were going off, flights were rebooked, and ...

Marni Francesco Risso looks exactly how youd imagine the creative director of Marni to look. He wears giant knitted hats and bigger trousers; kilts and platform boots and leather trenches. While some designers prefer to fade into the background, a brief and shy bow at the end of a show in black jeans and black t-shirts, Risso is a proud maximalist, the kind of designer who wears an asymmetrically-striped zebra jumpsuit and a giant rabbits head to bathe in applause. Subtlety isnt his, nor Marni...

The “basic bitch”—the hypothetical mindless consumer of mass cultural distractions like pumpkin spice lattes, Lululemon, and old Celine bags—has haunted fashion for nearly a decade now, turning designers’ carefully considered, most artistic output into items to be catalogued and over-consumed. For the most part, menswear has remained blissfully free of the basic bitch. While the “basic bro” certainly exists, the kind of clothes shown at men’s fashion week...