SCRIBBLED across the back of the T-shirt Riccardo Tisci wore to take his virtual bow were the words: Don’t believe everything you think.
Perhaps more than he realized, they summarized a collection driven by instinct rather than method.
Since Tisci arrived at Burberry nearly three years ago, he has endeavored to interpret and celebrate an esoteric Britishness that—take it from a fellow foreigner—will always be better understood by native Brits.
On a video call from Lake Como, where he was visiting his mother, he cited his love of British eccentricity as a source of inspiration.
But today’s show largely felt as if Tisci had departed his Anglophile approach in favor of what he knows best: his own inclination.
“Re-thinking a lot” was how he described his pandemic experience. “I had time to slow down. The fashion business is very fast. It’s a huge company. I was ticking boxes, and
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