Fashion
The Quiet Return of Tailoring
On the slow shift back toward structure, and why it never really left the atelier.
June 21, 2025 · 7 min read
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Fashion's relationship with tailoring runs in long cycles, but the atelier itself has never wavered — the half-canvassed jacket built in 1995 uses the same construction as the one built this year.
What's changed is context: tailoring is returning to rooms that spent a decade favouring ease over structure, and doing so on its own terms — softer shoulders, higher armholes, cloth that moves.
We'd argue it never really left. It simply waited for the room to catch back up.