Here’s Jonathan Anderson walking along an edge where there’s hyper-awareness on one side, and something quite bonkers on the other. “I felt it was better to start the year with something lighter and less calculated,” he declared on a Zoom. “At the beginning of 2021 I wanted something that’s reality. A reality check.”
Reality? Well, now that reality’s gone mad, the hilarious antics going on in Anderson’s new set of posters are a reasonable enough response to the zeitgeist. There’s Sophie Okonedo, acting up with a gourd, a pumpkin, and an armful of berries, and a trio of straight-faced models doing things with cabbage, cauliflower, and an assortment of house plants. To add to the silliness, the handwritten captions are all nonsensically mixed up. Juergen Teller shot the visuals in London. “It’s a lot to do with being straightforward, and that’s why I wanted to use Juergen,” Anderson opined. “He’s so good at showing a sharp reality without any fuss.”
The Crown was one of the biggest fashion happenings of 2020, ten bingeable episodes of escapist excess just when we needed it most. Princess Diana’s shoulder pads and black-sheep sweater beguiled a new generation, and the actress who plays her, Emma Corrin, became a red carpet darling a virtual red carpet darling, that is in her Miu Miu looks.
Philosophy’s Lorenzo Serafini said he found himself captivated by another royal, Diana’s antagonistic sister-in-law, Princess Anne, though it wasn’t the TV series that sparked his interest. “This collection was in development long before the latest season of the show,” he clarified on a Zoom call from his Milan showroom.