Ahead of the show, Donatella Versace said she’d been thinking about how life today is lived on screens, which has led to an obsession with perfection. Punk, with its spirit of rejecting the obvious choices and constructing something challenging and new, was her response. Indeed, as Selfridges’ Designer Womenswear Buyer, Philippa Holden, notes “there was an unmistakeable shift in mood this season, particularly at Paris and Milan Fashion Weeks, with punk influences dominating the cities of high glamour”. From Gucci’s dramatic spiked leather masks, designed to represent the sharp divide between our true selves and the persona we project, to Louis Vuitton’s antidote to homogenised wardrobes, a riot of textures, prints, punkish metal detailing, exaggerated ruffles and leather skullcaps – punk’s ideas of imperfection and individualism coursed defiantly through the cities’ shows.