You also remembered runways from times of yore, when designers really went all-out to stage a show, to evoke a story through their garments. There aren’t many left of that old school. Maybe times have changed; or maybe designers just don’t have very much to say, or the time to say it, in the accelerated system of the contemporary runway. Thom Browne stages a show each menswear season; he presents Pre-Fall collections and shows womenswear in barely two weeks’ time. Time is undoubtedly on his mind.
Good fashion can speak on many levels. Ramble on about Oscar Wilde and Proust and Browne may blink blankly (he did to me). At its base, this show was also about an inventive way of showing engaging clothes, beautifully made, but with hidden meaning embedded in every seam. One to get nostalgic over, when you’re in remembrance of great fashion shows past.