Burberry re-configures its idea of 'Britishness' for AW21

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Riccardo Tisci’s latest Burberry collection was an ode to the diversity of British women and “shedding archetypes and readdressing preconceptions”.

, the space was a vision of luxe trench-beige softness, a maze of blocks of different heights that the models walked over. But the collection was anything but beige. Instead, it was brighter and more colourful than usual — a “rainbow shining through the rain” as the show notes put it — and there was a sense of optimism in the going-for-gold dresses and spindly stilettos. The message: soon we’ll be dressing with a purpose, on our way someplace somewhere other than a beer garden.

The collection was perhaps Riccardo’s most laser-focused yet, perhaps a result of its neat focus on womenswear but also because it doubled down on a singular, recurring theme: fuzzy, fluffy shearlings and faux furs juxtaposed with sleek, sharp city-slicker dresses and coats. “I had time to slow down. The fashion business is very fast. It’s a huge company. I was ticking boxes, and I was like, ‘Okay, stop’,” he told.

But where the collection felt especially prescient was in the razor-sharp dresses made from spliced Union Jack flags, the diagonal blue-red-and-white stripes of the British flag re-configured as colourful drapes and geometric bias-cut panels.

 

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