The Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, famously quipped: “The possession of beautiful things is thrilling.” What curiosities are stored in the cabinets of fabled fashion collectors who devote their entire selves to the embodiment of this doctrine?
Fashion has an uncanny way of preserving time—the styles and sociopolitical subtext of an era frozen in the fabrics of what’s trending. In 2024, the state of the industry demands a retrospective. Here, GRAZIA looks back at heritages of past eras in an attempt to reconcile what sartorial legacy the 2020s will leave.