University Of Fashion
The return to physical shows brought fresh ideas to collections, but it remains to be seen what long-lasting change the pandemic has inspired. Each week, The Times’s fashion director and chief fashion critic will answer a fashion query — for men or women — in our new fashion newsletter. These three labels are rethinking the traditional retail model, with tightly edited collections that cater to a thoughtful new customer. In textile-producing areas the growing of cotton and the production of naturally colored thread became obsolete. Traditional motifs on textiles are no longer considered the property of a certain social class or age-group. Wives of government officials are promoting the use of traditional textiles in the form of western garments such as skirts, vests and blouses. This trend is also being followed by the general populace, and whoever can afford to hire a tailor is doing so to stitch traditional ikat textiles into western clothes. Thus traditional textiles are now fas