How Will the Future Family Live and Dress?
Our prognostications include android au pairs, salads from airborne pods, virtual-reality vacations on demand—and plenty of clean-lined, cool, and ultracomfortable day chic.
Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Vogue, April 20161/9Ex Machina
“Unfussy” isn’t a new ideal, but it has great currency. We all want to be, finally, liberated from physically constricting clothes—and sartorial foolishness. That’s why a loose top and lounge-y, laid-back pants are the shape of things to come. Model Joan Smalls wears a Vetements shirtdress, $1,180; matchesfashion.com. Boss pants, $375; select Hugo Boss stores. Honda humanoid robot.
Fashion Editor: Tonne Goodman
Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Vogue, April 20162/9Game Changer
Robot for the win! (And, on Mom, minimalism’s winningest color combination.) Ralph Lauren Collection silk-jersey cropped sweater, $890; select Ralph Lauren stores. Calvin Klein Collection pants, $950; Calvin Klein Collection, NYC. Cartier watch. On Abraham: Vineyard Vines shirt. Bonpoint shorts. On Ava: Oscar de la Renta dress. On actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: ATM Anthony Thomas Melillo T-shirt. Linde Werdelin watch.
Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Vogue, April 20163/9Eternal Sunshine
A new era calls for a new kind of cover-up—like a matching jacket, say, instead of a pareo or kurta. Dolce Gabbana jacket ($2,745) and swimsuit ($575); select Dolce Gabbana boutiques. On Ava: Lands’ End jumper, shirt, and shoes. On Coster-Waldau: Solid Striped swim trunks.
Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Vogue, April 20164/9Good Shape
The interesting silhouettes we’re seeing are essentially geometric—witness this creative spin on the old high-low with an apron skirt–over–trousers combination. Marni top ($770) and skirt ($1,500). Top at select Neiman Marcus stores. Skirt at Marni boutiques. Jil Sander trousers, $870; Jil Sander, NYC. Bulgari ring. Fendi sandals.
Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Vogue, April 20165/9Motherboard
Most of the prints here are feminine but abstract, only hinting at florals or other organic forms. These squiggles could remind you of coral—or maybe wiring and circuitry configurations. J.W.Anderson top, $1,095; j-w-anderson.com. Annelise Michelson earrings. Asobu Glass Water Bottle with Fruit Iceball Maker.