Khadi, a fabric championed by Mahatma Gandhi during India's Independence movement, found its way to Issey Miyake's showrooms in the 1980s. In 1994, when Princess Diana stepped out in an off-the-shoulder black silk dress, on the same night her husband admitted to an affair, it was dubbed the "revenge dress." And more recently, when Vice President-elect of the United States, Kamala Harris, took the stage for her first post-election speech in Delaware in a white pantsuit, it was instantly recognised as a nod to the decades-long women's suffrage movement.

Politics and fashion do not exist in silos. Fashion is political and politicians, well, do not go out of fashion.