“Community is everything in the fashion scene, because it turns fashion from a product into culture,” Teresa says. “Running Reborne Store has taught me that a small brand cannot grow through garments alone. It grows through shared belief: designers who take creative risks, customers who understand the value of that work, and a space where people feel part of discovering something early. That kind of community gives independent fashion emotional value, not just commercial value”.

Emotional value may be exactly what fashion has been lacking, both locally and globally. And if anything can reinvigorate Fashion Week — here or anywhere else, for that matter — it’s just that: designers who take risks, whose clothes make us feel something, and whose work can build a community around it.