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…
From Rick Owens: “I have been retreating to Egypt where I find great comfort in the remoteness and scale of its history. My personal concerns and global discomforts feel small in the face of that kind of timelessness. Lying down in the dirt with the valley of kings within view is a very…”
This year’s edition of Colombian Fashion Week, Colombiamoda made a strong commitment to conscious fashion, where brands, designers and young talent demonstrated through unique pieces why it is so relevant to talk about this topic in this kind of events. There were…
Yohji Yamamoto’s Fall/Winter 2021 womenswear collection was presented not on a runway but within the quiet of his Aoyama flagship in Tokyo. The setting, subdued and direct, mirrored the tone of a collection shaped by disconnection and ambiguity. Amid a global crisis that has…
From Rick Owens: “Gethsemane was the garden Jesus prayed in the night before the crucifixion; a place of uneasy repose and disquiet before a final reckoning. We’ve all been living a tense period in history waiting for a resolution, be it catastrophic or rational, in a suspense that feels almost…”
From Rick Owens: “Gethsemane was the garden Jesus prayed in the night before the crucifixion; a place of uneasy repose and disquiet before a final reckoning. We’re all living a tense period in history waiting for a resolution, be it catastrophic or rational, in a suspense that feels almost…”