The Party Is Coming. Hereâs What to Wear.
Designers have looked into their crystal balls and predicted the future. Itâs fancy. Ideas from Loewe, Versace and Thom Browne â plus a hard-core Givenchy.
Thom Browne, fall 2021.Credit.via Thom Browne
March 8, 2021
To a certain extent every designer is also a prognosticator; a seer, looking six months or even a year into the future and predicting what we will want to wear. Which really means: Who will we be? What costume will we need to define us?
This part of the job is only more crucial in a period like the present, when what happens next feels both urgent â we are desperate to get there â and difficult to imagine. You can understand how Joseph Altuzarra and Luke and Lucie Meier of Jil Sander ended up with butterfly prints in their collections. If the metaphor is not exactly subtle, it still looked awfully pretty, suggesting we will emerge from our current cocoons in either a glorious splash of color (Altuzarr