Updating the past to communicate a new kind of power.
PARIS — Deciphering the language of public dress, especially dress worn by the powerful and the popular, has become a form of competitive sport these days, practiced in the arenas of Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.
“The Message of So-and-So’s Outfit” is so common a descriptor when it comes to the images consumed en masse, it is turning into a cliché. That doesn’t make it any less part of the modern condition, however, or mean that the filter-down effect doesn’t apply to everyone, once they step out their door.
It’s fashion’s job to keep adding to the vernacular; updating, revising and otherwise offering
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