The fashion manifesto
ODE TO JOY
Though the fantastical gowns of red-carpet proportions were dreamt up prior to a global pandemic, there lies in their abundant skirts and gleaming adornments a clear-eyed belief in the joy of dressing up. Being well turned-out takes thought and care, seen in Gucci’s churchgoers, Simone Rocha’s pristinely prim smocks and Molly Goddard’s gossamer tiers. Defiance now includes a pleasure in the ritual of piecing together a look with an after-eight feel, no matter where we’re headed. Call it a roaming romanticism for the freewheeling freedom we will forever be able to enjoy in the mind’s eye, until we can return, with abandon, to occasions worthy of
