Will more designers be joining them?
"Nothing will ever be the same again" has been the constant refrain of the coronavirus era. But for the fashion world that may well be true.
Tectonic plates have been shifting inside the industry during the lockdown, with a wave of designers standing up to say that the mad whirr of the fashion circus has to slow.
While many have questioned its frenetic rhythm and wasteful over-production for years, few big-name insiders dared openly to question the hamster wheel of spring/summer, fall/winter, cruise and pre-fall shows, as well as the now mandatory capsule collections.
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The first cracks in the facade began to appear last month, when Saint Laurent designer Anthony Vaccarello said he was pulling out of Paris fashion week this year.
Henceforth "the brand will lead its own rhythm... and take control of its pace and reshape its schedule," he declared.
Clothes need longer life
This week Gucci's Alessandro Michele joined the revolt by saying he was slashing his shows from five to two a year, and questioning the very idea of seasonal collections which have underpinned fashion since World War II.
"Clothes should have a longer life," he said in a virtual press conference from Milan, insisting that his future collections would be "seasonless".
Michele is no pouting rebel, but fashion's commercially savvy darling who has turned Gucci into a cash cow for the French luxury conglomerate Kering with his ironic kitschy style that has echoes of Wes Anderson and John Waters films.
And it is not the just the young guns who have had enough.
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