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“We should not forget that maybe not everybody only wants a camel cashmere turtleneck,” Olivier Rousteing remarked. Beyond the cyclical nature of fashion, Rousteing’s observation captured a mash-up of trends that has been solidifying into a durable aesthetic.
The age of functional maximalism
Patience is chic.
Another Magazine • Daniel Roseberry of Schiaparelli: “Patience Is Chic”
Beyond simply copying her outfit, which isn’t the point, it speaks to a broader shift in consumer behavior: We want to hear from people, not corporations.
Vogue • Influencers Are the Retailers of the 2020s
the style stories of a hundred of the best-dressed people in history.
Amber Butchart • The Fashion Chronicles
Magazines were containers for someone else’s taste, and when you read them you were inhabiting that taste. But you were also co-creating with the magazine, because by reading the magazine you were contributing to its fantasy of lifestyle. “Dreaming is free. You can’t be stingy with dreams,” said Franca Sozzani, the late Vogue Italia editor.