My recap of couture — truly a bizarre array of clothes:

“Alessandro Michele’s fourth collection for Valentino and his first couture effort came with x.com/itgirlenergy/stat…evocative of body horror Oscar contender The Substance. He leaned hard into panniers, while some of the silhouettes looked downright Elizabethan (a period that dates back to 1558) or Marie Antoinette-ish (she became queen in 1774). Juxtaposing the huge hoop skirts and abundant ruffles with a digital background may have been an attempt to present this aesthetic in a modern light, but rather than it coming off as subversive and cool, it felt like Big Tech looming in the background of a very, very old idea of womanhood.”