Germany's Fashionable Far Right Troublemakers The recent electoral upsets in Saxony Anhalt, where the Alternative for Germany (AfD) trounced Chancellor Friedrich Merz's centre right CDU by almost 44 to 17 percent, have set off alarm bells across Europe.
This development is eerily reminiscent of a certain sartorial trend: the rise and fall of designer labels in the early 2000s.
Brands like Alexander McQueen and Galliano dominated high end fashion only to be supplanted by newer, edgier names.