How Four Women Define 'Power Dressing' in 2018
Power dressing once referred to a hyper-specific aesthetic: strong, ultra-padded shoulders, borrowed-from-the-boys suiting…you know the look. While those classically 1980s silhouettes made a recent comeback on the fall runways of Marc Jacobs, Off-White, and Tibi, among others, the idea they once stood for—that these are the clothes women must wear in order to be seen as powerful—has evolved quite a bit. (Just ask anyone who’s marched in a pussy hat or watched the sea of #MeToo black at this year’s Golden Globes.)
At this major inflection point in women’s rights, we asked four women in fashion—a designer, a model, a celebrity stylist, and a political fashion blogger—to define what “power dressing” means to them today.
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