fashion should be a performance, or else it isn't transmitted clearly or artistically, it is shown as material to buy. but when true performance and theatrics get involved in the collections, even for ready-to-wear ones, even when it is subtle or light, it creates the biggest difference. if this collection was shown on a regular runway, we would not have understood the true intention of the pieces.
I love tom ford so much because it is pure performance, but still light, still up for interpretation. this is how it all should be.
clothes exist in the context, they reflect it, and that is what fashion is.