Maisie Peters and the Indie School of Pop. It’s probably Taylor’s influence that an increasing number of young female artists are spending their formative years exploring indie. It’s where you learn to do a lot with a little. Pay your dues honing the essentials. Maisie does that well. It reminds me of that early 2010s indie sound. That Maine - Quebec or that Washington State - BC roadtrip sound. The production does a fine job of exploring melodics. Indie has a phonetic nature, the music and lyrics are meant to blend in the forest fog. Florescence, let a thousand

O have thou come to find me zeitgeist? The house that reimaginedhe 80s before it was fashionable is not self-congratulatory this season as multiple houses have rediscovered the 80s. It sets its sight ahead and simultaneously farther back by reimagining the 70s: wide collars, that typical 70s cut for the pants and the prints of that era.

The contemporary prism is color compression. Discipline in the palette. The result is an interesting level of dense dimensionality. Sculptural almost. Sophisticated power dressing. It also extends to experimentation in leather that results in some very sophisticated and eye catching results in

Essentialism with an amuse d’bijoux. Come stand with me at the edge of the zeitgeist. What are we here for? What was it all for? Saint Laurent engages with the zeitgeist by leapfrogging it, looking ahead. Essentialism.

Classic tailoring with a twist for the, in my colored view, intergalactic. The militaristic aesthetic held together by buttons of maximalism. Celestial bijoux. What type of aesthetic would the neo-victorians want? Essentialism that exudes power. Complex pleading. Pullovers that make you turn your head and gaze. The times will inevitably make us have to dress more uniform. Holding tension nonetheless.

There’

For dem sophisticated hustlers. Get rich or leave this life in a Luis trunk. The MO is still street prep under Pharrell. The nuance being that we seem to be diverging from the mean. Going either more classic or more outspoken and experimental. Should you pull the trigger on that brownstone and settle down or keep nomading with the crew? There’s more range, a desire to cater to more types of modern aristocrats.

The boys are also warming up to a bit of ornamentalism. A tad of sparkle. There’s a similar divergence from the mean in accessories. They

To Athens with you or to Carthage you naughty nobleman? The Sicilian bad boy holds within him two souls: the tyrant and the poet. He wants to write the godfather and be the godfather. So there’s a many variations of the classic bad boy uniform in black, in line with oversized trend. Subtle, sophisticated, playful here and there. But then we get to the poet and all bets are off.

Take the drapes of the villa and make them into garments. Take the jewellery of the entire family and stitch it onto everything. Be the poet in a tyrannical