It’s that point at the end of show season when every editor has, for want of a better term, slightly lost the plot. Alaïa’s New York takeover seems like a lifetime ago. Never mind Wu-Tang Clan’s fist-bumping trip around Staten Island with Tommy Hilfiger.
And did Willem Dafoe really walk Miu Miu, or was it all a fever dream? “Fashion month is a rollercoaster,” said Vogue ’s Julia Hobbs live from Hyperspace Mountain at Disneyland on the closing day of Paris Fashion Week . “A long one, with many sharp turns.” (See also: Charli xcx’s late-night London rave and Madonna’s Dolcefication of Milan ).
But amidst all the childlike wonder – one of the season’s overarching moods – and the sheer overload of product to digest – from antique lingerie to flip-flop heels , anoraks to gravity-defying dresses – there have been flashes of normality that don’t involve sitting on an animal bean bag chair to feel current. One of the biggest street-style trends of the season was the most normal. No, we’re not talking about the borrowed-your-grandpa’s-old-leather-flight-jacket look, but a transitional knitwear trick that anyone – yes, including you! – can copy for precisely zero pounds.
Enter stage left: the jumper shrugged over the shoulders. We know we said all semblance of normality has escaped us, but this autumnal outfit flourish is actually a huge reality check. You don’t need to splash out on Prada’s barn jacket (scores of these workaday styles were.