Fashion history, year by year

Fashion rarely moves in neat decades. It moves in years through sudden appointments, uneasy departures, first collections, final bows, strange experiments, corporate manoeuvres, public grief, and the once-in-a-while runway that manages to make the whole industry sit up a little straighter.

Year in Fashion is our editorial take on the events that gave each year its shape. The chronology follows fashion where it actually moves: through houses changing hands, designers entering or leaving the frame, collections that gain meaning in retrospect, and wider forces that alter the conditions around the runway. Pandemic disruption, war, regulation, consolidation and shifting fashion weeks appear here when they help explain why fashion behaved differently.

The point is to make the year readable without pretending to catch every hemline as it passes. A resort collection can become a final act, a calendar absence can say as much as a show, and an appointment can redraw the temper of a house. The timeline follows those signals, letting fashion history read as a living fabric rather than a filing cabinet.