If fashion is a reflection of the times, the latest trend identified by US Vogue is suitably bleak. “War-core” has replaced “normcore” as the look du nos jours, according to the style arbiter. Fashion’s latest neologism describes dressing for “geopolitical meltdown … reflective of the violence, chaos and widespread anxiety in the world at large”. And you thought the return of bumbags was grim.
Aesthetically and conceptually, it is all pretty problematic. One Los Angeles label, Alyx, is producing face scarves of the kind worn by soldiers in the desert and fashioning vests from ultra-tough fabric used in anti-ballistic and anti-stab armour. Another, Heron Preston, makes waistcoats that look like flak jackets. At the most recent round of menswear fashion shows, model Bella Hadid wore a Louis Vuitton bag strapped to her thigh like a gun holster. She was just one of a phalanx of street-style stars whose balaclavas and multi-strap utility vests looked a little OTT for the task at hand: sitting in an air-conditioned room to watch a presentation of some very expensive trousers.
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