It’s no surprise that 2022 was a big year for fashion. The style world is fully, frivolously back after the pandemic years. The economy is a different story, but that’s why we have the lipstick index: the theory that sales of affordable luxuries rise in economic downturns. So, yes, the cost of living crisis might be raging, but so are the parties, the red carpet looks, and the front rows.
In fact, so much has happened it’s hard to believe that it all took place in the same year. It seems almost laughable that the same year that gave us a slew of Rihanna pregnancy outfits also gifted us with the Don’t Worry Darling drama, and accompanying red carpet looks of Harry Styles and Florence Pugh. And then, less than a month after that, we saw Bella Hadid sprayed into a dress, and Heidi Klum writhing about as a worm.
