No More Drama; When did the fashion show lose its spectacle?

Nowadays, thanks to Instagram, anyone can feel like they’re sitting front row at any fashion show right alongside Anna Wintour. But most modern runways resemble conveyor belts of merchandise; blank, sterile presentations, often indistinguishable one from the next. Not so long ago, things were much different: fashion shows were spectacles, happenings. The truly memorable, even with the span of decades, still sparkle in fashion’s collective consciousness: Alexander McQueen’s chessboard runway of Spring ’05, or his spectral life-size hologram of Kate Moss twirling in frills to the haunting soundtrack from Schindlers List for the following Fall.