The spring collections in New York and Europe produced an amazing variety of trends: bold floral prints, intense color, jackets with peaked or rounded shoulders, transparency, and play clothes like jumpsuits and smock dresses with casual blazers.
This also gave a sense of transparency to the clothes, some of which were put together in combinations of sheer and opaque fabrics, like one dress with a skirt made of cotton organdy and an exposed bra top bound in tulle.
As a consumer, you can demand transparency and refuse to buy clothes from companies that have not explicitly shared the details of their supply chain.
But the extraordinary beauty of these other-worldly clothes came when dresses had a jellyfish transparency or looked like a body encased in gilded sand.
Although Ms. Burton hit many of the themes of others — transparency, airiness, grid patterns (in her case, jacquards of honeycombs and bees) — her clothes retained a tantalizing sense of mystery.
Fashion Revolution, a global campaign demanding more transparency in the fashion industry, is encouraging consumers to ask retailers where their clothes are made and is organising protest events in 68 countries on 24 April.
In our age of total — if always somewhat feigned — transparency, and the sudden blowback that often follows, he speaks loudly with his clothes and with the exhilaration that attends his play, and otherwise withholds.
"If tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of people call on brands to tell them who made your clothes on 24 April [Fashion Revolution Day], I believe that we can achieve transparency throughout the fashion industry".
Knowledge creates a healthy skepticism; after all, our new demand for transparency in #whomademyclothes directly results from discovering that big-name American brands manufactured their clothes in that death trap.
Michele is relatively restrained when it comes to posting images of Gucci clothes and merchandise, but his Instagram provides a kind of visual backstory to his collections — a form of creative transparency, albeit a skillfully edited one.
