Out and About

DO WE NEED AN EXCUSE to celebrate the great outdoors? Fashion month gave us one last spring when utility fabrics, city-country silhouettes, blanket coats, pannier bags, brightly hued waders, and all manner of zips, hoods, snaps, and buckles proceeded down the runway. Designers were dreaming, it seemed, of heading into the woods, onto the slopes, out in the wild.

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The climate shocks we're living through—the record heat waves this summer, the floods and fires and storms—give this impulse a poignance and piquancy. President Trump is intent on deregulation, ending environmental subsidies, and embracing fossil fuels. Meanwhile, global investments in clean energy have never been higher, and China is leading the way in solar and wind power. Our climate fate seems mixed at best.