Forget About the War

Miccuia offered up the “simple but strange” argument, which seems to best illustrate the source of this paradigm shift. It’s an instinctive progression after we’ve widened hips, waists, and limbs to hindering proportions. And, to answer the question on everyone’s lips, where do you go after spring’s literal futurism? Well - you scrap the kitsch and proceed where futurism excelled - to texture and beyond.

Ironically, the most interesting part is not the potpourri of materials designers have opted for, but rather the slew of conspiracy-like theories fashion editors have conjured up to explain fall’s trends. Like the inescapable presence of spring’s sci-fi liaisons, so to is rhetoric suggesting political events are fuelling designers into a “design and protect” mentality. Think funnel neck coats at YSL and war scarves at Balenciaga. More often than not, such long nuances go to humdrum lengths correlating metallic studded sheaths to post 9/11 events, often to the point of concluding designers are more skilled in the art of environmental scanning than design.