Life imitates art. Fashion delineates the times.
Relevant for the now, a wearable representation of the complexities of an era.
This commitment to creativity and connection through our societal highs and lows has long fueled the way for designers and trendsetters to invent and imagine anew. To express the realities, limitations, or extravagance of what we are experiencing in the everyday but also to pull out and run with our powerful desire for inspiration through it all.
In 2020, the year of stops and starts, dressing has been as free flowing as we have had to become ourselves, and lately there is a renewed sense of sartorial romance as the fashionable look to redefine the concept of all dressed up with no place to go. Sure the leisure wear industry set us up strong for working from home, lounging and the more casual ways of life currently, but this is a shift to fanciful dressing for the love of style pure and simple.
We are not travelling. We are not attending parties. These socially distant days are not necessarily cause for chic. No way we are giving in or giving up on our fashion. Chic just became its own cause.
Heels to get a coffee, sleek pant suits to get the mail and taffeta everywhere. Inspired? Perfect. A stand-out from the SS20 Wilfred collection at Aritzia, lightweight pieces like this opera dress designed with fabric from Italy channel high style goals for a moment in history which feels both underdone and almost unnervingly modern. These are simultaneous classics and reinventions of the cool girl genre, prompting dressing that looks as flawless with a red lip as it does revolutionizing a walk on a late summery afternoon. In the world of elegant meets effortless everybody wins.
The future might be unpredictable but life in the moment looks beautiful. Onward and dressed upward.
