Post-pandemic fashion scenarios, what will happen to the suit and tie? - Lifestyle

 We will return to travel, to hug each other, to work outside the home, but we will not be like before, and we will not dress like before: what we have experienced in this last year will have permanent effects on our lifestyle and on our individualities, which are also expressed in choosing what to wear every day.

This is the reflection shared by the proposals seen in these days, almost only digitally, at Milano Moda Uomo.

    On the one hand, new habits will affect us - who will ever want to go back to wearing a tailored jacket and classic suit for a meeting after months and months in a suit?

- on the other hand it will be the rediscovery of what is really important for all of us - human warmth, contact - that will lead us to choose one garment over another.

    Closed for too long in a virtual bubble, on the one hand we will feel the need for tactile and warm fabrics and materials, on the other, when we are back on the streets, we will also carry our fears with us, because the den syndrome will accompany us long.

And here is the explanation of the fashion trends that will come in exactly one year, never so much a daughter of the period we are living in: the inside will be comfortable, protective, domestic, the outside large, over, at times exasperated.

    In this double thrust, the awareness born from the reset of one's wardrobe: working from home we removed the classic shirts and tailored suits, we added turtlenecks, sweaters, trousers as comfortable as joggers.

And from here there is no turning back: Alessandro Sartori, creative director of Zegna, is convinced of this, for whom the pandemic has accelerated a process that would have taken place in 10 years.

    We will go - is the belief of Silvia Venturini Fendi and Kean Etro - towards a more personal definition of dressing, less slave to the diktats of fashion and more daughter of individual expression.

At home we mixed day and night, we overturned the wardrobes discovering hidden treasures or taking advantage of them to do decluttering.

And when we go out to see a new dawn, one of the most popular themes of these Milanese presentations, we will be heirs of this experience that has made us all more fragile and, therefore, more real.

    In the meantime, nothing prevents us from dreaming of returning to travel, perhaps with Fendi accessories that reproduce trolleys and suitcases in a mini version, or to snuggle up in the warmth of an underwear like the Long John, which Prada offers as a winter passepartout, a caress in skin-deep wool with which to recreate that human contact that we miss so much.

And finally, to exorcise fears, large doses of chromotherapy, with jackets and coats in saturated and bright tones, useful for imagining a post-pandemic color future.