Endless Loop

 

 It has become the defining irony of the runway, the future of fashion is increasingly dressed in the past. Season after season, designers reach back into archives, reviving silhouettes, fabrics, and slogans that once carried the shock of the new. What was once daring now returns as déjà vu, a cycle of repetition that feels less like homage and more like exhaustion. The industry’s reliance on nostalgia is not accidental. In an era of economic uncertainty and cultural fragmentation, familiar aesthetics offer comfort but comfort is not innovation. The runway, once a stage for rupture and reinvention, risks becoming a museum of recycled ideas, garments curated for memory rather than desire. This endless loop raises a pressing question, if fashion no longer dares to invent, can it still claim to lead culture? Or has it surrendered its role as provocateur, settling instead into the polite rhythms of retrospection?