Once upon a time in fashion land, you couldn’t move for articles on the capsule wardrobe. Speaking in the language of classics, staples, hero pieces and timeless investments, they implored readers to think of their clothing as building materials. Good foundations, it seemed, were usually to be found in the form of the perfect white T-shirt, the perfect leather jacket, the perfect pair of jeans, the perfect knitwear and so on. There was a bland uniformity to these suggestions, a