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Fashion is going through a golden age of understatement. And I’m all for it | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion

What I want now are clothes that have a quiet confidence. Luckily, catwalks and front rows are full of them

This sort of outfit doesn’t whistle for attention, but still has something interesting to say I can definitely see the logic of dressing to make yourself more visible as you get older, and if that’s your bag, I will defend to the hilt your right to do that. In Milan, Gucci has done an about-turn from being borderline fancy dress to selling perfect versions of deliberately normal clothes: jeans with kitten heels, that sort of thing. Quiet luxury is sticking around for so long that, this being fashion, we’ve had to make up a new name for it, so listen out for “opulent realism” as the new in-vogue label to drop.

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