Fashion has always reacted to shifts in the socioeconomic landscape — like the way skirts got micro short and part-ready during prohibition in the 20s, or everyone wore business casual to club post-recession. Well, after a very short-lived stability in the early 2020s — giving rise to the “clean girl” quiet luxury-minimalism — the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction. 

Not only are we going to use clothes and makeup as a release valve for all this tension,...