In her last monthly dispatch for Spike, Joanna Walsh asks what’s next for the way we dress. Is it automated, fatally co-opted, or plain too janky to fail?

Dusky purple was widely hyped to be the hue of 2025 – only to be passed over for a tiresome brown. Why would fashion prefer comfort to change?

If no outfit is truly politically neutral, what does one wear for actual resistance?

As fashion continuously cycles between excess and access, who are the industry’s real “insiders”?

Does the fashion show’s linear, modernist form still have a home in the rhizomatic 21st century?

In a culture of eternal returns, how can we channel the buyer’s remorse of the January sales into something more creative?

If the personal is ultimately political, and fashion sways between self-expression and sameness, what does it really mean to have “personal style”?

When does a fashion item become a trophy? If luxury is just aspirational consumption, then nobody can claim the prize.

Are we feeling nostalgia yet for nostalgia? Autumn’s fashion obsession with novelty may just veil our comfort fix.

What are we looking for in authenticity if faking is our contemporary condition? In a hyperreality without originals, nobody knows your Birkin is a fake.

People used to wear suits on the plane. Now, everyone wears sweatpants and athleisure. What does this have to say about our permanent sense of displacement?

Damage can be an accident, a deliberate style, or a divertissement for the wealthy. So what makes a garment unwearable, and when does a flaw become a subject of desire?

Is “old” in? In an era of Eclectic Grandpas, “elderly” can mean much more than #eccentric, even if aging in the flesh remains unfashionable.