‘Why You’d Want to Do That Is Beyond Me’: London Fashion Week Faces Down Its Critics<br />London Fashion Week was Occupied, beset by protesters demanding "Shame!" The cause was anti-fur — along the protest lines, you could spot a man-size costumed bunny rabbit, with a sign requesting<br />that the fashion world wear their own skins, not his — and the effect was to unsettle the already edgy attendees, whose nerves had been frayed, if not flayed, by news of the subway bombing on Friday.<br />The threat of FOMO (fear of missing out) is strong at fashion week — no other way to explain the gawkers who lined up 10 deep outside the Topshop show, hoping to catch a glimpse of Kate Moss —<br />but Mr. Chalayan channeled his despair into one of the week’s best collections.<br />Mr. Kane leans so hard and so fearlessly — if the protesters who picketed London want shame, Mr. Kane is resplendently shameless — on his particular enthusiasms,<br />and the mad, alchemical way he combines them, that his shows are a wonder to behold.<br />Hussein Chalayan wrote that The feeling of missing out from the exchange of digital information<br />and the ‘like’ culture is creating an increasing sense of despair among many of us,<br />If no one likes it, O.K., as long as I feel I’ve really achieved something and it’s fashion, not run-of-the-mill clothes." It’s fashion, no question.<br />19, 2017<br />They screamed outside Burberry, they screamed outside Versace, they screamed outside the<br />British Film Institute’s IMAX theater at the screening of a gory short by Gareth Pugh.
