City of the Small Shoulders, canapé maker for the world, Vogue magazine, which under the ardent Hillary booster (and would-be ambassador to the Court of St. James) Anna Wintour has been subdued and despondent since last November, has struck back in a way in its March issue, with a series of interviews with female designers who are expressing displeasure with Clinton’s opponent. “My spring-summer show was a reaction to the right wing,” said Stella McCartney. “[Sarah] Burton is feeling fragile,” the magazine wrote of another, who sobbed softly as she expressed her unhappiness. “Discombobulated by Brexit and the recent American elections, she is formulating her creative response.” “The things we care about are being attacked,” another lamented. As the reporter said sagely, “That tension makes its way into their clothes.”

According to Robin Givhan of the Washington Post, it’s made its way into a number of men’s collections already, citing one show of “beefy men in black velvet,” which expressed the “darker side” of the designer’s emotions, in a “brooding commentary on life.” Another dressed models in “purple camouflage overcoats, flame red satin trousers, [and] neoprene face masks” as a “call to action,” of what sort wasn’t mentioned. Another presentation opened with “models standing in the cramped confines of a prison yard [while] black-clad guards stood sentry. The story was not simply about race, but also gender, sexual identity, and ethnicity. [The designer eloquently tapped into concerns roiling the nation, and he used the power of fashion to underscore our stubborn reliance on stereotypes and appearances [and] segregate ourselves into opposing social tribes.”