RIP Heels? Not on my watch

“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat.” So said the late great Kaiser of Fashion himself , Karl Lagerfeld. Oh dear Karl, is that you I hear? Yes, yes indeed– sighing and tutting from your catwalk in they sky in abject disgust at what we have become. He goes on, “you lost control of your life, so you bought some sweatpants.” Something like that, Karl. Something like that. After a whole revolution around the Sun of unmatched slovenly-ness, which has successfully pushed to the extreme our inventive means of fashioning ‘loungewear’ (code for all things elasticated) consider us all, according to the sartorial diktats of the Kaiser, well and truly CONQUERED, indeed. Scrolling through anymore Insta-hits of ribbed pistachio palazzos,...