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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 not long after, some of us boarded a plane to Paris, in a hurry, as if we were on the run. Two weeks...

Marni Francesco Risso looks exactly how you'd 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 rabbit's head to bathe in applause. Subtlety isn't his, nor Marni's, style. Marni creative director Francesco Risso in an ’alternative’ outfit for his brand�...

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 weeks tend to speak to a larger audience of fanatics, transmitting its runway strangeness far less often...