Ever since the Covid-19 lockdowns lifted in 2021, when people began to emerge from social isolation and the fashion system started to work again, we\u2019ve been asking the same question: What do we wear? The world was different; we were different. Staring into your closet was like staring into a foreign land.<\/p>\n

First, the answer was continuity: comfort clothes, elastic waists, sneakers, leggings. Then there were predictions that the Roaring \u201920s would return in all their glittering, befeathered glamour. Then that started to seem premature, because \u2026 well, the war in Ukraine. And it turned out that Covid wasn\u2019t exactly over. Then everyone threw up their hands and said, \u201cIt\u2019s a mess!\u201d<\/p>\n

So was fashion, and that\u2019s pretty much where things stood.<\/p>\n

But as the New York shows drew to a close this week, a different answer emerged: a hybrid look for a hybrid world. A style that isn\u2019t armored or swaddled, decorative or in denial, but instead connects pragmatism to polish, building a bridge that is also enabling. In a good way. Imagine a world where you could have your structure and freedom too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n