The revelations of the past six months that have coalesced into the Time’s Up and #MeToo movements have had us thinking a lot about the opening salvos of the sexual revolution and the heroines of those early battles for equality in the workplace and the bedroom. This winter, we found ourselves intently listening to the emotionally honest chanteuses of the ’60s and ’70s and, in particular, to Carly Simon, admiring her lovely melodies and unflinching yet poetic candor. When we watched the Fall 2018 runways in New York, what stood out were the clothes that shared the qualities we so admire in Simon: fierce, unapologetic femininity and feminism, head to toe.
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On the final day of the collections, Fashion Editor Jorden Bickham and director Charlotte Wales gathered a gaggle of our favorite collaborators—including Cardi B, Paris Jackson, Ashley Graham, Karen Elson, Grace Elizabeth, Isabeli Fontana, Elsa Hosk, and Cindy Bruna, among others—for a gorgeous sing-along to “You’re So Vain.” Did it matter that not one of these ladies was alive when Simon first unleashed this diatribe to fill in the blank (Warren Beatty?) nearly 50 years ago? Not at all. Truth and beauty know no age . . . and who among us has not had some dreams that were merely clouds in our coffee? Behold, the beautiful fall.