“Beginning of all kinds. Pliability, an unfreezing, a wakening. Wild sudden growth. Release. Energy. Hope. Lifeforce. Threshold.” That’s Ali Smith, writing about spring. But she might as well have been writing about the autumn/winter 2021 fashion trends.
These are the sentiments that designers described and attempted to convey in the collections they unveiled in February and early March, and which will start trickling into stores in August. After a year of lockdown, another season of digital-only shows, but with a vaccination-led route out currently being tested, the sense of coiled energy in the fashion industry is palpable.
What will you choose for your re-emergence? A second-skin, printed bodysuit? A miniscule excuse for a mini dress? A retina-scorching dose of colour? A puffer jacket the size of a zorbing ball, with the cocooning powers to match? Mrs Prada cautioned against letting all hell break loose, sartorially speaking. “Something is mounting. Some desire, some excitement. I personally would like to control it because it’s probably not correct, but it’s there.
It’s easy to project economic theories onto hemlines, to read the runes of a ruinous year in the short skirts and cuddly jumpers that cropped up in collection after collection. Ultimately, however, even the sagest catwalk gazers agree that autumn appears to be a season of madness. Not sure a shocking pink cropped Chanel bouclé-wool jacket goes with the carefully cultivated vision of minimalism you’ve been honing over the last few years? So what. Time to throw caution to the wind.
Here, the autumn/winter 2021 fashion trends you need to know about now and where to shop the key pieces of the season.Can a single spoon be said to have changed the course of fashion? Yes, if it’s the Duke’s Spoon in, which to date has got 82 million viewers – and more than a few fashion designers – hot under the Regency-era collar. We’re blaming the spoon for a few of the sexier trends that dominated the autumn catwalks, namely: the vogue for sheer gowns.
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