After five years of controversy, could Virginie Viard's departure from CHANEL reveal anything about the misogynistic traits of the fashion business?

By recalling familiar themes and rethinking silhouettes through proportion, McGirr delivered a subversively self-referential, polarising collection that succeeds at elevating the brand’s rather contemporary heritage into legacy status.

“I guess that, in the age of streaming and high-octane luxury marketing, not even exhuming a dead king is off limits.”

Miuccia Prada's design philosophy is both political and pragmatic, and so it might hold one truth or two about beauty stereotypes, and living in self-dignity.