Clothes, Interrupted
Image credit: "Lagos Still Moves," by Dafe Oboro Fashion has long been defined by the passing of time. The new is continuously replacing the old in the realm of popular taste, and the garment industry would like consumers to believe that our forms of dress should change with the seasons, the time of day, and from one occasion to the next. But in a year of canceled fashion weeks and bankrupt clothing brands, a year when social interactions became laced with a sense of danger, must fashion still evolve at the same pace?
I, for one, lost interest in buying new clothes this year. Initially, I assumed this was because I was no longer seeing people beyond my computer screens, or meeting new ones I would want to impress. But as I scrolled through page after page of online sales from cash-strapped
