There’s nothing like a student show to renew your faith in fashion. Mark Holgate spent the weekend in Antwerp with the Royal Academy of Fine Art’s class of 2025. He wrote: “It was heartening then to see how the students, the first class to come through post-Covid, are responding to the current moment. “The heaviness of the pandemic, and the world right now generally, saw them eschew overtly political narratives, in favor of what might be deemed more frivolous subject matter. An examination of superficiality and pretentiousness was actually a starting point for some of the designers,” but “that’s not a criticism,” he noted. “When everything can feel so overwhelming, maybe the natural reaction is to double down on finding some joy and lightness in difficult times.” Meet the graduates. |
