The Decade in Fashion—According to the People Who Made It

Fashion has changed immeasurably from 2010 to 2019. As an industry and as a community, we have questioned everything from the validity of the show system to the purpose of retail, to the very nature of garments themselves. Some years it felt like every season was starting anew, with droves of creative directors coming and going; more recently it has seemed like every week was a new beginning—or ending—in the fashion world, with brands, stores, and ideas sprouting up on social media as brick-and-mortar spaces we thought would exist forever closed their doors.

The tendency in such an uneven time of change is to rely on cold, hard data to dictate the moments that matter. While crunching the numbers certainly has its place, Vogue Runway is remembering the decade through the memories of people who made it. Here, in our visual scrapbook of the past 10 years, 15 of fashion’s most influential people—the ones who shaped the look and feel of the 2010s—reflect on their best moments. The picture painted is one of evolution, friendship, family, and, yes, even a little fame. The next 10 years are looking pretty bright.