Remember when staying in used to be the new going out? When the fall 2020 collections hit the stores you’ll be able to do both at once. (Pillow bags optional.) It’s been 20 years since Hussein Chalayan moved fashion into the realm of furniture, with his table dress and chair cover dresses (and 14 after his armchair lineup for fall 2006), and the idea is getting a fresh coat of paint, as it were.
It was curtains for subtlety at Matty Bovan, where, with the help of Stephen Jones “make your own entrance” drapes framed the last looks. Both Moon Choi and Bovan offered fringed-curtain dresses à la Scarlett O’Hara—via Carol Burnett and Bob Mackie. (Choi accessorized hers with a lampshade hat.) The swagged skirts at Gucci were one part Marie Antoinette, one part window dressing.
For couch potatoes there is tufted outerwear, too. The technique, which originated in Victorian England, kept furniture stuffing in place. JW Anderson’s take for Moncler Genius 1 was more unbuttoned, and included a nod to an altogether different period of British history with punkish down studs that had more bark than bite.
