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Eververse, the premiereDestiny 2fashion house, last night revealed its spring collection of street wear forSeason Of The Worthy. Reactions from fashionistas have been loud and charged. I adore this collection, welcoming the option for some more casual duds, even if the Warlock outfit in the middle is so ludicrously, wonderfully, decadently uncasual (a look I think works for the class). The big shock is the outfits for the agile, tricksy, gunslinging Hunter and the beefy, punchy, hammerhurling Titan. You thought it was the Hunter on the left, right? Naw mate, that’s a Titan. The lad with the big plated arms is the Hunter. It’s catwalk chaos.

As a dedicated follower of spacefashion,prone to gushing over outfits, I adore the concept. Destiny has all sorts of body armour, from medieval through fantasy to military and sci-fi, but not much fashion-fashion. This is the sort of catwalk collection which straddles the line between high concept and actual street wear, some solid garments as the base layer then embellished with extra fanciness. The next year of fashion on The Last City’s high street will surely be copying bits of this, motifs and materials spreading all over.

The Hunteroutfit is great too, no doubt. Those arms are a clean pop of freshness with such lovely shapes. The jacket hangs nicely over the form-fitting vest, and I do like the zip continuing up along the collar. A real strong centre mass right there, some good Japanese streetwear vibes. The weird thing is, lots of this outfit is not great: the snake decal detracts from a otherwise-great helmet; a cape doesn’t go with this outfit (those Hunters and their capes, eh?); I don’t like the panelling on the boot toes; and I really don’t like the trousers tucking into the boots.

However, the jacket and sleeves are so strong that I barely notice the other problems unless I’m looking for them. What style! I will mix-and-match the jacket parts in combination with so many other pieces in my spacewardrobe.

Lastly, the Titan. While it’s being widely panned, I really like most of this outfit. It’s another smack of Japanese streetwear, just with some crippling flaws. I like the jacket’s wide collar and ribbing, though the default green is all wrong. The vest zips up weirdly high but has such texture I can almost feel it. The sleeves have good shape from the stripe and bars, and I’ll be excited to try them in combination with other chestpieces - I hope they take new shader colours and materials well. Trousers would be cleaner and better without those vertical straps but otherwise have interesting detail, and the contrast of the lower leg pops nicely. Good boots too.

Update:A Bungie community manager has sincetweeted a few other shaders on the outfitand yup, I’m totally right. This will look great in other colours, see:

“I will be changing my main class this season simply because the Titan armour looks so bad,“declaredone overdramatic fashionfiend.

“Spent like 5 minutes trying to understand why people didn’t like the Titan set before realising I was looking at the Hunter,“saida typical comment.

But I like the Titan style and I am up for this dramatic change! I’m glad to see some bold and different new looks. It’ll be nice to not always have huge arms and chunky shoulders for my Titan. Her wardrobe is full of pauldrons the size of sensible family cars. Those sleeves could go nicely with so many Titan armours too. And I definitely play punchier Hunter builds at times. This opens up a huge new fashion space for Titans and Hunters. Plus hey, fashion should always be transgressive.

I know I’ve said Eververse contributes toDestiny 2’s FOMO problembut I absolutely will scrounge up the Bright Dust for all these outfits.

For the record: I would also be well up for giving Hunters a longer, looser, draped outfit encroaching on Warlock territory. Please, Bungie.

Season Of The Worthy will not be short on fashion opportunities either. The season pass will bring seasonal armour (with variants as ornaments), theTrials Of Osiris PvP modewill bring over its old gear from Destiny 1, and loads of currently-rare armour will be spread around. Bungie said in the blog post that Legendary Engrams will become able to drop armour from 11 different sets, up from the current 3. These will include the old Faction Rally sets, as well as some that currently only drop in weird niche situations. They also note that armour sets are more likely to have good stat rolls, so more good-lookin' gear will be usable. Do remember thatseasonal mod slots will take mods across several seasonstoo.

The end-game goal of Destiny isn’t to get great gear, it’s to get great-looking gear.

Destiny 2’s Season Of The Worthy starts next Tuesday, March 10th. Some parts of the calendar will be open to all players, but you’ll need to buy the season pass to get it all.

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