Five Things We’re Taking Away from Fashion Month AW21

#2 Romanticism & Feminine Tailoring.

Prabal Gurung, Marni

Unsurprisingly, the themes of tactility, intimacy, and romanticism featured amongst many designers this AW21 Fashion Month. Take Francesco Risso’s second lockdown collection for Marni for example, which took viewers on a quest to celebrate romance

Romanticism feels more powerful than any form of protest: a way to delve into reality with another gaze and another touch, finding another meaning to the everyday

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Marni’s collection whimsically reimagined the sportswear and loungewear codes through a feminine lens, whilst Prabal Gurung’s ‘In The Mood For Love’ collection played with dreamy floral motifs, bright pink tailored two-pieces, ball-gowns and 80’s polka-dots. 

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#3 Female Power! 

As feminine tailoring and bold romanticism crept into the game, female empowerment felt rife this Fashion Month; on both the runway and via our Instagram feeds.

This was championed explicitly from Dior’s AW21 collection, which was a celebration of female creativity from Maria Grazia Chiuri. The designer called on five female illustrators to create a series of animated teasers that were posted before the reveal of Chiuri’s fairytale-esque Dior collection.

Dior AW21, Ella Emhoff for Proenza Schouler AW21

Proenza Schouler also explored the power of femme as designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez explored a “complete wardrobe created to comfort, inspire, and empower the modern-day woman”.

The talk of this year’s New York Fashion Week was certainly that of Ella Emhoff (Vice President Kamala Harris’ step-daughter) who was the face of Proenza Schouler’s AW21 collection.

#4 Hopeful Dressing.

Halpern, Erdem, Jil Sander

Proving that there is no challenge without growth – Fashion Month felt vibrant and alive this year, and we for one felt happier to wave goodbye to the politics and exclusivity of the front row.

We saw a wave of exuberant locations come through this Fashion Month, with Valentino temporarily reopening the Piccolo Teatro di Milano (which hasn’t seen life since the start of the pandemic) and Erdem virtually taking us to the front row of the Royal Ballet, filling us with hope for the year ahead.

Take Halpern’s AW21 collection for example; flooded with printed sequinned pieces, eccentric leopard prints, Sixties’ boots and sinuous tailoring; the collection was beautifully femme, beautifully big and beautifully bold;

That led me to design a collection for pure celebration of getting together once again; when we are able to be with one another and be merry. This is a collection rooted in optimism and the power of fashion

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#5 Wanderlust. 

With a sense of hopefulness rife across all four cities, many designers took the opportunity to whisk their virtual audiences away to some pretty incredible locations and sets.

From Louis Vuitton whisking us to the galleries of the Louvre which featured a collaboration with Italian artistic design atelier Fornasetti, to the literal runway with Balmain – whose AW21 collection was inspired by the freedom and excitement of travelling, audiences across the globe were filled with a gleeful sense of wanderlust and left desperate for more.

Balmain, Emilio Pucci, Eudon Choi

Sunny even in the midst of winter, The Emilio Pucci team injected a playful sunny spirit into winter fashion with their St Tropez inspired collection and we even found ourselves at the “Swiss Alps” with Eudon Choi’s 1960’s inspired après ski looks.

We’ll take one holiday, please.

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2021-04-03 09:05:14 • By Emma Bowkett