For all the grandiosity of the setting and the difficulties of realising such a production under strict pandemic restrictions, it felt surprisingly breezy for Browne.

Virtually penniless, a string of fashion fairy godmothers granted Galliano an opportunity to spin his magic once more. What the audience saw was a mere 18 looks: still one of the most convincing arguments for “less is more” that BoF's editor at large has encountered in his more than three decades in fashion.

Celebrated milliner Stephen Jones talks to BoF Editor-at-Large Tim Blanks about how the pandemic has signalled an opportunity to reshape the fashion industry.

One of the most lauded milliners in modern memory, who has worked in the industry for over three decades, speaks to Imran Amed about finding creativity in a pandemic.

There was a spirit of resistance in his bricolage.

The raw apocalyptic glamour of the show was also a perverse tutorial in the art and craft of clothes-making.

Kim Jones’ ethos is the consummate marriage of creativity and commerce. He knows how to make beautiful things.

Grace Wales Bonner insisted that she herself is more playful now, and it certainly seemed that way.