Half a year ago, designers predicted what we would be wearing a few months from now, especialy for spring fashion 2010, when the last remnant of slush has melted and bare toes are imaginable. In this issue, fashion director Harriet Mays Powell anchors those predictions in some reality; her distillation of the trends starts below. In theory, the shows are about business. But they’re also a kind of convention of beautifulness, something photojournalist Lauren Greenfield captured as she went behind the scenes in Paris, Milan, and New York.
