In fashion, it was a year of bags shaped like paint cans, pigeons and potato-chip wrappers. ⁠ ⁠ It was a year of R-rated skirts that barely covered your gluteus maximus; of shirts splayed, boorishly, from cuff to collar with fast-food logos. A year of shoes made from repurposed sex toys and sagging totes made from jeans.⁠ ⁠ It was a year, above all, of oddity.⁠ ⁠ “It’s definitely the year fashion got weird,” said @jiandeleon, Nordstrom’s men’s fashion and editorial director. “It’s the year we embraced the weirdness in a bunch of ways,” he said, ranging from Louis Vuitton’s $2,850 paint-can-shaped bag (which Mr. DeLeon happens to own) down to the kitschy, Granny-chic crocheted sweaters that became a surprise smash for small-scale men’s brands such as New York’s Corridor. ⁠ ⁠ Fashion has been careening toward the kooky for years. Blame (thank?) Crocs. Read more at the link in bio. (🖊️: @jacobwgallagher, 📷️: Vanni Bassetti/Getty Images)