Conversation about the future of fashion has always seemed misguided. Wearable tech? AI outfits? Shopping in the metaverse? Who cares — tech will reshape our lives in all kinds of insidious ways in the coming years. But bots and algorithms don’t really represent the future of fashion.

I just got back from Paris Fashion Week, where I spent six days sitting at runway shows watching the literal future of fashion pass by. I didn’t see any technological whizbang in the Fall/Winter 2025 collections. No, what I saw was a promising future for good clothes and those of us who want to wear them. 

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