Couture is over...and no frostbite due to street-style raised the temperature and provided lessons in the history of Haute Couture. Paris Haute Couture had a guest index welcoming significant trendsetters from every city, ultimately coming together to walk Le Marais and grab a croissant with an espresso shot on the way to their favourite designer shows. Cliché but no wonder that a city has uplifted so many fashion icons, artists, poets and writers so often described in the literature. As a result, there were so many timeless junctures where fashion harmonized seamlessly with contemporary manners to break the binary. The existing mythology is primarily based on equity and inclusion guided by figures in the queer independence and feminist crusades that have extended the compassion that gender is a spectrum rather than an inflexible binary. Fluidity is one of the defining aspects of the current era, with a thriving number of people identifying as non-binary, trans, and gender non-conforming. These individuals were widely recognized and revered by civilizations across the globe for millennia, and modern society is just catching up. Here, we delve into the present after-effects and innovations that are navigating the future of fashion. Further solidifying it as a new seasonal standard with striking impacts across runways, retail, design, accessibility and sustainability.
