Gucci closes Milan fashion week with a eulogy to fashion as we know it

The latest fashion week mixed the physical with the digital and closed with an epic show from Alessandro Michele. Has the fashion world finally changed for ever? Fashion has been grappling with its existential crisis for months. Broken supply chains, the exposure of racist and classist barriers and labels going seasonless have led to an introspective time for the industry. At the London and Paris fashion weeks, a host of digital-only shows were inventive, pretentious and beautiful, sometimes all at once. Yet it felt as if fashion had turned into a shadow of its former self, the proverbial ball gown reduced to the size of a slip dress in a bad spin cycle. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/jul/17/gucci-closes-milan-fashion-week-with-a-eulogy-to-fashion-as-we-know-it #fashion_weeks #fashion #gucci #life_and_style