If that doesn't take the shine off mens designer jackets sale empty proactivity and aspiration, nothing can. Perhaps because of this, experts are starting to reframe rest as the ultimate act of rebellion. Whether it's forest baths, gong baths or bath baths, it's a way of stepping off the hamster wheel. In 2018, Georgina Johnson's mini-manifesto Slow Fashion to Save Minds called on readers to consider the true cost of the ways, often artificially accelerated, in which they lived and worked. Her new book The Slow Grind looks at sustainability from the perspectives of mental health, fashion, race, education, social justice and climate change and asks how we can build back differently. 

"A nap, meditation or just a pause without a screen, stepping out of the web of sales, stories and dictums we're constantly fed, allows us to be in a more truthful reality," she adds. "Rest is an act of quiet rebellion, allowing us into new ways of being and seeing the world."Holly Friend adds: "Taking a step back, pausing, and re-evaluating the stressors of our lives is necessary to achieving skills mountain warehouse jackets that we need more than ever  such as resilience. Amid a year that has blindsided us, we have come to realise that as humans we need to be ready to adapt and shift priorities at a moment's notice. Rest is becoming integral to this. In order to deal with such extremities of the world, we need to feel mens outdoor jackets calm, collected and focused." The next time you want to take forty winks and friends and family tut disapprovingly? Just tell them you're rebelling.

"As countries opened to a post-Covid-19 situation, we found a general increase in attraction towards positivity and joy. We saw individuals returning to less urban ways of life," says anthropologist and Quilt.AI co-founder Angad Chowdhry. "What interests me is that the disconnection is almost a stepping away from conventional urban modernity."Chowdhry says cottagecore is indicative of a desire for  simplicity and anti-modernity. "It is the equal and opposite reaction to the contamination, helplessness and incoherence of our contemporary mise en scène." Quilt.AI s analysis also revealed that while a slew of wholesome, earthy symbols such as casual jackets for women flowers, leaves, bees, mushrooms and bees were generously used, the top emoji was that of sparkles signifying magic and wonder, and hinting that cottagecore holds a lot of meaning as a fantastical paradise.

Moss herself was simply continuing a tradition among hip cultural influencers.  In the 1970s, Yves Saint Laurent sent models down the runway in rehashes of his mother s  40s evening gowns; Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music suited up in Humphrey Bogart drag and retro GI gear, and kids recreated those looks with flea-market finds, expert Alex Fury wrote in the Financial Times.  Then again, so did people like Paloma Picasso and Loulou de la Falaise, buying vintage clothes for authenticity and validity  the real deal, not a pale imitation. Fast forward to the 2020s and vintage is back again    and this time, arguably, it s back for good.

And the world is speaking back. A recent report from second-hand clothes sales platform ThredUp estimated that the total resale market is expected to more than double in value from $24bn (£18bn) to $51bn (£39bn) by 2023, accounting for 10% of the retail market. Depop, a social app targeting Millennial and Gen Z shoppers, now has 13 million users and revenue growth of 100% year-on-year for the past few years, since its launch in 2011. On average, Depop users  90% under the age of 26  collectively follow and message each other 85 million times each month. More than  back for good , vintage looks set to become warmest winter jackets the new norm.

What s better is that it s going back to its roots, to the vintage market stalls where true aficionados have been ruggedly plying their trade through the vicissitudes of fashion. When British brand Connolly wanted to do something different during lockdown, they turned to fashion stylist, vintage consultant and Portobello stallholder Frank Akinsete to curate and upcycle eight pieces from the brand s previous collections. The resulting dip-dyed, hand-block printed capsule collection, named after Akinsete s blue Burmese cat Rocky and photographed on fellow stallholders, was achingly  cool and utterly of its time  and beyond.