It’s a man’s world. So how should a woman dress in it?
At the finale of the Thom Browne show, the last show of New York Fashion Week, a model appeared in a jacket encrusted with gold bullion, worn atop 130 feet of swathed tweed and many layers of crinolines. The skirt was so elaborate, with so many tiers and drapes, it hindered her movement, as if she were weighed down by all the girlish expectations.
To a certain extent, designers are always wrestling with the tropes of femininity — playing with them, embracing them, subverting them, dosing them with irony — but such choices seem much more freighted in the dawn light of trad wives, Barstool Sports and Hulk Hogan. What it means to dress like a woman in the era of the “manosphere” was the central question of this past New York Fashion Week.
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