This week, a New York Times piece on the end of fashion and the rise of sweatpants made waves for its bleak appraisal of the fashion industry’s failures, which have been thrown into sharp relief by the Covid-19 pandemic. “I think in general, we’ve created a system that is unrealistic and a strain for even the largest of brands,” Condé Nast’s Anna Wintour wrote in an email to the story’s writer, Irina Aleksander. “It could be that some younger designers were playing the same game and trying to keep up with the big brands rather than determining what’s best for them.”
