Step into your alter ego with this season’s trends... THE MAXIMINIMALIST

Why let the character you truly want to be live only in your head? Waste no more time, immerse yourself and become them, says Joe Bromley

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Joe Bromley, Fashion Editor

20 September 2022

THE MAXIMINIMALIST

She’s game for a wine at one. Honey, you want one too? Sleek, strappy, starving for more — the steamed clams come with Cartier. Order! She’ll try the soufflé Suissesse in slinky linen slacks. I want the salmon rillettes. The stilettos are twisted — gold leaf or stomping on nail varnish — and dinky Dior bags are starter size. Clack, clack, clack. Crack the oysters open and… breathe. Darling, this one’s on me.