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It’s Time to Start Dressing Like a Witch
Prosthetic body parts, lampshade hats and other surprising trends from fashion month.
From left: Sunnei; Balenciaga; Moschino.Credit…Courtesy of the brands (2); Firstview
1. Shopping Bags
Kate Lanphear, women’s style director: We’d seen Bottega Veneta models carrying shopping bags in recent seasons, leather versions made to look like paper bags. Karl Lagerfeld did similar trompe l’oeil bags at Chanel, too. But this season, there were actual paper shopping bags or, as was the case at Balenciaga and Moschino, plastic ones on the runways.
Nick Haramis, editor at large: Sunnei just opened a new store in Milan, and when you left the runway show, you exited through the shop, which was quite clever. The models also carried Sunnei-branded paper shopping bags.
K.L.: At Moschino, there was a dress made out of trash bags, and another model carried them, which seemed like commentary on consumerism, whereas at Sunnei, the bags felt more like a suggestion to buy.
From left: Weinsanto; Luar; Alaïa.Credit…Firstview; courtesy of the brands (2)
2. Constricted Hands
K.L.: At Luar and Weinsanto, the models’ arms were constricted by garments into contorted positions.
N.H.: Almost like if you were doing the “Thriller” dance but not moving.
Angela Koh, market editor: At Luar, Raul Lopez’s inspiration was growing up as a closeted gay kid, and thinking about hand gestures as an implication of homosexuality.
