The ‘open brag’ is a term used by the digital generations for showing off newly-acquired luxury items and statement pieces on social media. Objects of peer envy, they’re often of an esoteric nature: shoes, bags, and garments that aren’t traditionally pleasing to the eye; a little awkward, quite subversive, or ugly-cool. Their coolness is community…

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…