“Many people ask me why I’m showing during couture week, but for me, couture means experimentation and individuality,” he says. “I may not be doing 50,000 hours of embroidery with 60 metres of tulle, but I took the know-how of couture and I put it on a recycled yarn of polyester or a jogging suit. This is my way of saying this is also couture.”
And yet everything here marks a huge departure from Elbaz’s oeuvre at the seat of fashion’s highest perches. The generic-sounding name “AZ” references the first and last letters of his name, but also includes “Factory”, he says, because “fashion should be a factory of dreams”. Its logo is just a circle with two black eyes. And the sizes range from XXS to XXXL.
Bikramjit Bose
The onset of the pandemic changed our lives, in ways big and small. While 2020 will be remembered for many reasons, but it will also be known as the year that the conventional office dress code found itself in the throes of an existential crisis. As the world made the paradigm shift to working indoors, the decades-old office dress code was deconstructed overnight. And having tasted the freedom of non-confining silhouettes, will we ever want to button ourselves into rigid blazers again? It is a question that we put to the experts at Farfetch, Myntra and Le Mill, and here’s what we found out.
January 28, 2021
Phoebe Dynevor, who plays Daphne Bridgerton in the Netflix hit Bridgerton, in the show’s costume department as she gets kitted out for a scene.
Netflix
Close your eyes and try to think of a fashion trend most unlike the current mode for luxurious loungewear. It’s hard to beat a corset, yes?
And yet, given that some 63 million households have now watched the Shonda Rhimes-produced Netflix series Bridgerton, which is set amid the social season of Regency-era London (1811-20), it makes perfect sense that interest in the tight-fitting garment has soared.
The series – which has officially been renewed for a second season, according to recent news – follows the travails of Daphne Bridgerton, a daughter from the prominent Bridgerton family and the “unparalleled” debutante of the season, as she strives to find a perfect marriage match.
Cool Sneakers
It goes without saying that 2020 turned out to be a much more casual year than most of us anticipated. With widespread stay-at-home orders, we saw a rise in search for oversize joggers, stretchy pants, and cozy tube socks. But if you re anything like us, you know that though comfort
is life, it s still cool to appreciate the season s current and upcoming trends. We of course took note of what the cool girls wore to the (virtual) fashion shows and, more importantly, in their living rooms.
We did some research and partnered with a few of our favorite online retailers to see what trends we shopped for this year. With the help of Stephanie Nelson-Roberson, GMM and head of buying at Shopbop, and Celenie Seidel, senior womenswear editor at Farfetch, we rounded up the pieces everyone seemed to be in the market for this year, because they still have staying power through 2021.