WAR & PEACE
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times—or so the saying goes. Take a look around. In Hong Kong, a fight over an extradition bill has led to months-long protests that have escalated into violence. In America, demagoguery and a recession of morals. In Britain, a half-baked exit from the European Union built on decades-old chasms in class and wealth. In the Kashmir region, a nuclear sword of a Damocles situation between two nations vying for territory. In Korea… you get the idea.
Unrest is all around, so it was no wonder that on the runways, fashion designers responded to these events. After all, fashion has always been representative of the times—or what Diana Vreeland once called “the daily air” that “changes all the time, with all the events”. So the gist of the season was this:
