spring 2023: anything goes

(A selection from a report created exclusively for the Accessories Council.)

After two seasons celebrating a cautious return to optimism and joy, the needle continues to move; and this time, to embrace the eclectic, the adventurous, and the creative. This is a spring to let your freak flag fly. 

With the world once again open, feelings of wanderlust and a general joie de vivre as we move about reflect in our dressing, pulling the odd and eclectic out of our closets in bold and unusual styling. Our stand-out pieces become our go-tos; the relics of our past lives and travels, the ones we reach for first. We have been re-birthed, and our style re-imagined. We will be everything, all at the same time. 

But this mindset doesn’t erase where we have been, and though we are embracing a release of the darkness we’ve experienced, it goes without saying that other parts do not have that luxury. Thankfully, a post-pandemic tenet of compassion drives us to remember our connectedness to the world, and what we can do as a global community to support one another. Although anything goes, it really only moves forward if we all do it together.