I bade farewells – or didn’t, before people already left.

Pleats spring to life after being squashed between layers of paper in a heat press; the body makes it swell into dimension and fabric is animated into motion because of the body.

Being ‘part of the furniture’, as a figure of speech, means that someone or something is so familiar and unwaveringly permanent that they become essentially invisible.

Fashion was synonymous with embodiment.

What Emily Dickinson meant by “Nature” was inherence of form, an innate trueness. Bode embodies this in its value for the textile - the garment at its core.

The immersive atmospheres that designers create tend to be both ephemeral and exclusive.

It led me to the mandarin collar, kept stiff with a piece of card that I thought would suffocate me.

Guido ruminates; we can feel Fellini himself contemplating in this moment, if it’s best to create nothing at all.

M. Butterfly, however, is perhaps painfully aware of the gaze; it revels in, plays with and performs for this gaze.

In an era of pandemic work-from-home, ‘I don’t dream of labour’, OnlyFans millionaires and girlbossing, Miu Miu speaks to a generation grappling with the decay of ideals of corporate employment.

It is the irony produced by her presentation of this uncomfortable truth through the pastels of bliss where Varda’s voice – her gaze – comes through.

Chanel steered Schiaparelli into a chandelier ablaze with candles, lighting the surrealist Schiaparelli tree on fire. Guests squirted her with soda water to put the fire out.