The Fashion Trends Every Serious Collector Is Watching This Season

The most interesting thing about this season’s collections is not what is new. It is what is returning — and why.

Across the major houses and independent labels, there is a consistent movement away from concept-driven, spectacle-oriented fashion and towards a reassertion of fundamental clothing values: fit, fabric, construction and the considered relationship between a garment and the body that wears it.

Natural dyes, revived through collaborations with artisans maintaining traditional practices, are appearing in collections that a few years ago would have reached for synthetic colour as a matter of course.