Let’s Get Lascivious

A sensuality has returned to fashion this season. Embrace it, says Amy Heffernan.

Givenchy: fashion is experiencing a sexual reawakening

Fashion is experiencing a sexual reawakening. Sex — and the idea of sexuality — has re-entered designers’ collective consciousness after what feels like an eternity of prudent, less-is-more dressing, the duvet-like volumes of the post-#MeToo era and most recently, a loungewear-clad pandemic. Having had 18 months to stew on what women will want to wear, it seems one of the main preoccupations of the industry’s creative community was our erotic emancipation. Following such a long ...