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Fashion reflects and responds to what is going on in the wider world, and the SS25 collections look like a series of interpreta- tions of adult femininity, serving to equip contemporary women for an increasingly hostile and polarised world, says Dr Rosie Findlay, a senior lecturer at City St Georges, University of London, specialising in fashion and media