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Exactly a year ago I was in Paris in the last days of fashion month, with the spectre of the pandemic creeping ever closer. This year I am in front of a computer screen watching the filmed runway shows of the virtual fashion weeks and missing the glamour, so much so that I have put on long sparkly earrings and glittery Miu Miu shoes just to put me in the zone.
It must have felt worse for the Golden Globe nominees stuck at home, wearing couture in their kitchens, for the awards ceremony. Comfy couches replaced the red carpet while they waited on Zoom to hear if they had won a gong or not. Everyone is feeling starved of high-octane glamour and none more so than the fashion houses who rely on the oxygen of publicity surrounding the red-carpet season. Nevertheless, as was proved at last weekend’s awards ceremony, the stars stepped up to the plate and did the fashion houses proud, twirling for selfies on their smartphone cameras wearing Dior, Prada and Oscar de la Renta.