Fall-Winter 2021 fashion: Why so (not) serious?

It’s been a very unusual time for fashion — with creative shows streamed digitally to a larger global audience — but the general feeling we get so far is that designers just want to live vicariously through their collections. Who cares that we can’t travel, let’s make thick woolly parkas and floor length coats, because we can!

In a nutshell, fun fashion for the senses seemed to be the overarching theme for fall-winter fashion, but we can break it down further into three significant themes that have broken the mould this year: Environmentalism, dystopian styles, and work-from-home fashion.