Fashion has a lot of You Mess With The Meow Meow You Get The Peow Peow shirt. work to do, period. Just a few weeks ago, sustainability was top of mind for designers as exacerbated issues the industry has ignored for years: excessive waste, enormous carbon emissions, overcrowded factories. Now, we’ve turned our attention rather belatedly to a second plague: systemic racism. In the 11 days since a police officer killed George Floyd in Minneapolis, fashion brands have been taken to task not only for a lack of action, but for decades of negligence: Some have failed to empower people of color on their creative and executive teams, reserving their “activism” for marketing campaigns and fashion shows, while others have neglected to hire Black women and men at all.

Blessed by bountiful sun, it’s easy to lament the usual events of the season. We won’t be celebrating Glastonbury 2020 (until June 2021), and we’ll miss the Wimbledon players in their crisp whites on the manicured verdant You Mess With The Meow Meow You Get The Peow Peow shirt. and the grand slam style of the spectators. Goodbye to the Queen’s daily wave at Ascot and her perfectly executed colour coordination visible from her open top carriage. The anticipated opening of Greg Hersov’s Hamlet at the Young Vic (with Cush Jumbo in the lead), has been rescheduled to Spring next year. And the Tokyo Olympics is now over a year away—which we’ll still miss even though it’s a long way from the British Isles. One of the biggest cultural highs was set to be the David Hockney: Drawing from Life exhibit at The National Portrait Gallery which closed after two weeks. “One of the saddest emails I had to send was to David Hockney to tell him we were closing his exhibition,” shares Dr. Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery (and Hockney’s fellow Yorkshireman). Of course, Hockney’s response was brilliant. “He sent me a picture of a new work, ‘they can’t cancel the spring’, created in his home studio in Normandy.