The Year Fashion Met Reality

Seducing a changed consumer

Chanel’s Fall-Winter 2020/21 show (above) on March 3rd was the ultimate fashion fantasy. Chanel shows always are. They recreate a mountain vista, an oceanfront, a rainforest, the Parisian rooftops and are usually thought of as a pinnacle of an industry made of, and for, dreams.

Forward a couple of weeks ahead, and the reality became so dire that our dreams…