As Paris rounds off a month of fashion weeks, which of the standout looks – from incredible tailoring to plunging necklines – will make it into your closet?
Fashion week can be about many things – for much of this weekend in Paris, thanks to Celine’s show, the catwalks took a back seat to a righteous backlash against the patriarchy – but in the end it is always about our wardrobes. What is on the catwalk has an impact on what I wear and what you wear. That’s the whole point. That is literally what makes it fashion. Otherwise, it’s just clothes.
We are at the end of Paris fashion week, the final stop in the month of fashion weeks, which means it is time to zoom out and focus on the wood, not the trees. We have to start with Celine, because that was the show that everyone talked about. It was interesting to me that an audience of women who might a decade ago have bowed before whatever new look creative director Hedi Slimane revealed (and perhaps that was what he assumed would happen this time) rose up in resistance, furious at their taste being ignored in favour of a 50-year-old man’s version of what looks hot on an 18-year-old model.
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