N  ow that we have spoken of the Haute Couture Fall Winter 2017 shows, we can return our attention to the move extensive Resort 2018 collections as we further speak of other observations made and how they reflect the world at large. In particular, the topic centers around a few influences that come under one umbrella of expression: all that is random.

​The current global climate is dominated by a major world power that is undergoing tremendous upheaval. The long-standing order of process and procedure has been upended and joins global chaos where political structures are either threatened or undermined. For all the wisdom that our evolution produced, we have succumbed to the most base of emotions where fear translates into what we are experiencing today. This is not just the obvious regarding American or European regime struggles. It also incorporates the challenges of modern terrorism being a nebulous random force that acts unpredictably, breeding insecurity as it challenges peace globally and feeds further fear, triggering xenophobia and eroding focus from our evolution the way a cancer saps energy from a body looking to thrive unimpeded. Then we have human rights abuses that seem to be gathering strength in nations regressing as the once-influential watch of wild powers becomes further distracted and fails to uphold the values that counter growing behaviours. It's animalistic, haphazard, and weirdly natural the way out-of-control weeds overtake a curated garden.

Out of chaos comes new forms and evolutions. As we move further into the new millennium and new century, the shakeups become necessary. Growth seldom comes for stagnation or lack of challenge, and we are surely growing. Fashion reflects this in its quest for new forms, silhouettes, shapes and cuts that break away from the old to speak the new language that is the future. Through random layering in collections from Aalto, Altuzarra, Antonio Marras, Christopher Kane, House of Holland, I'M Isola Marras, Thom Browne, Tome, Unravel and 3.1 Phillip Lim and through random segmentation as seen in collections by Carven, Christopher Kane, David Koma, Fausto Puglisi, Jonathan Simkhai, Missoni, Off-White, Stella McCartney, Vivetta and Yigal Azrouel, we see the world, its chaos and its evolution translated into fashion.

Enough voices tell us this is not an isolated perception. In a way, just as in life, we need to shake life up sometimes to get us form where we are to where we need to be. We hope that our knowledge and technology can be our salvation to take us beyond where we have been before, as such chaos in the past precipitated the kind of trouble that we fear may be repeating. Time will tell whether we are our own worst enemies or whether we can indeed move beyond ourselves, and it will be interesting to see what fashion will be should we head in that direction.