Junya Watanabe’s latest collection challenges the conventional boundaries of fashion by redefining it as a form of personal public art. Drawing inspiration from sculpture, Watanabe’s designs create a beautiful contrast between clothes and sculptures, merging conventional…
From Rick Owens: “Following our men’s show, we are once again showing in my home and working compound where we began selling our collections 25 years ago – an intimate move in observance of the barbaric times through in which we are living. The show is called ‘Porterville’ recalling my…”
The “Absolute” collection is an authentic materialisation of Irina Dzhus’ reflections on a personal trauma. Having escaped the war and previously overcome a repetitive abuse experience, the Ukrainian creator has, suddenly, stumbled upon a seemingly safe private situation…
John Galliano’s Spring 2024 Artisanal collection for Maison Margiela was not designed for passive viewing. Staged in the cavernous vaults beneath Paris’s Pont Alexandre III, the show invited its audience into a fully constructed world: atmospheric, surreal, and emotionally charged…
From Rick Owens: “I went to a Björk concert earlier this month and her intelligent, life affirming energy made me kind of embarrassed of my own mopey adolescent pessimism… and hers wasn’t a Disney escapist obliviousness, but a concerned and thoughtful trust in…”
Yohji Yamamoto, the maestro of avant-garde fashion, is set to celebrate his 80th birthday on October 3. With over four decades in the fashion industry, his passion for creating remains as strong as ever, evident in the recent showcase of his latest collection in Paris. The event displayed an…
From Rick Owens: “With our World conditions under increasing threat, jubilance seems like the wrong note but maybe it’s the only correct moral response? beyond being nice to each other, isn’t personal joy what we are put on Earth to do? Considering joy a moral obligation…”
Ziggy Chen continues his exploration of fabrics and shapes and presents a collection focused on the concept of spontaneity. A man with a zen and natural attitude and a casual style embodies the spirit of “Inadvertency” through fabrics, colors, and details. Ziggy Chen explores the…
Yohji Yamamoto opened his Fall/Winter 2023 show with a recording of himself singing Leonard Cohen’s “I’m Your Man.” It was not a gesture of vulnerability but of authorship, a reminder that Yamamoto’s work is ultimately about control. In an industry increasingly driven by…
For the Women’s ‘Luxor’ runway collection, we are one year into a war and witnessing how inspiring dignity in the face of aggression can be. Times like these might call for a respectful formality and sobriety with moments of delicacy as reminders of what is at risk and at stake. Clothes have…”
From Rick Owens: “If Venice, Italy, has been my summer retreat then Luxor, Egypt, has become my winter retreat. The vastness and scale line up with the Cecil B. Demille fantasy of Egypt in the movie The Ten Commandments (art directed by Paul Iribe!), which I watch nightly while…”
Yohji Yamamoto’s Spring/Summer 2023 show drew an unusually large crowd, not for spectacle but for something more rare in fashion today: continuity. As younger designers revisit his 1990s archive and speculation about his future grows louder, Yamamoto’s quiet consistency…