What We Learned From London Fashion Week

This past weekend was always going to be unlike any London Fashion Week before. There were no live runway shows. No front row, backstage beauty scrum or heaving photographers’ pit; no mouthy security on the door or street-style snaps taken outside gilded venues. With coronavirus travel bans and social distancing measures still in place in Britain, there were no big crowds. And with most brands continuing to struggle with the economic fallout of the global crisis, only a handful of the showcased collections were new designs. The question was: Could a digital equivalent, watched from your sofa, ever be the same? The answer — at least for now — is no. Read more at The New York Times.