Rags to Riches

 Balenciaga: Pre-Fall 2022, Look #50

   Transitioning from one season to another doesn’t include a whole new closet clean out. With the right pieces in your wardrobe; all you need is your season statement. 

  Laura Pitcher’s article “ 2022 was the Year the Apocalypse Came to Fashion” ( The Cult) discusses the adaptation of  eco-anxiety and dystopia- core this past year.  “ 2022 fashion visualized how we’ve felt over the last few years amid a pandemic and relentless climate disasters, then sold it back to us” 

 This aesthetic, however, didn’t emerge out of the blue. Dystopia-core has been around as early as the 1800s ( not a trend back then), where the norm for most was draping thinly textured clothes over another to create a futuristic look. Tiktok has helped promote this trend with the most popular hashtag, with 500k views was named “avant-apocalypse”. This trend to me is more like a deconstruction if you will, because you are really trying to break the function of a piece of clothing you have more than incorporating pieces to your wardrobe. 

Designers have been dipping their toes into this idea, and have executed runways, they give ‘Lets get ready for the apocalypse’, but with style. They are rewinding the clock if you will. Taking it back to the late mid 90s, bringing minimalism back with a twist.

    There’s an odd coincidence that the year that brought this.

 I personally feel very fond of the dark monochromatic look. Opposed to people's opinion about the look being lazy and stylish, it takes a specific execution to pull it off properly.