Disruption, change and reinvention, the fashion outlook for 2017

2016 was a year of uncertainty, economic instability, and a tectonic shift of plates when it came to politics. The outcome of the EU referendum and the US election means the outlook for 2017 isn't looking any less uncertain. Nor are the woes in Italy, the far right advancing in France and the Netherlands and the questionable future of the European Union helping to stabilise our communities and businesses. Terrorist attacks from Germany to Belgium to France have become near common events in the lives of Europeans, perhaps making the acquisition of luxury goods seem less important in the scheme of all that is happening in the world.