Back to the future - a new decade with nods to 70s and 80s

SS20 is season for showing off shapely pins

Bairbre Power

The very cyclical nature of fashion is loud and clear at the start of a new style decade where the strengths of the 1970s are eulogised with a nod to the big-shouldered exuberance of the 1980s.

The floaty romance of the incoming new season designer buys at Brown Thomas was perfectly enunciated against the angular, brutal architecture of the Douglas Hyde Gallery at Trinity College yesterday.