From Rick Owens: “This women’s collection is named “Temple”, as was the men’s collection shown in June, coinciding with the opening of my retrospective, titled “Temple” of Love at the Musée Palais Galliera right across the street. A retrospective summons up thoughts of…
Matières Fécales returned to Paris Fashion Week with their sophomore collection, presented at Place Vendôme and titled “Hannah”. The show was conceived as a tribute to co-founder Hannah Rose Dalton, whose uncompromising presence and expression have long been central to the…
“Every catastrophe carries within it a rebirth”. With “Scorie”, Chronos Corps envisioned a world rebuilt from the fragments of collapse, where the scars of catastrophe became the vocabulary of dress. The collection translated remnants of a post-apocalyptic terrain into silhouettes…
Hikari no Yami’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection, “Chapter 9: The Invisible Man”, confronts the uneasy space between recognition and erasure. Drawing on Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man” and Frantz Fanon’s “Black Skin, White Masks”, creative director Jakarie Whitaker examines the…
German-born designer Melitta Baumeister established her eponymous label in New York in 2013, positioning herself with an approach that treated clothing as a study of structure rather than surface. She graduated from Parsons’s MFA in Fashion Design, and soon after…
Founded in 2019, Hikari no Yami has carved out a distinct space in contemporary fashion, merging philosophy with design. Its name, translating to “light in darkness, or darkness in light,” captures the brand’s core pursuit: the balance of contradictions. Through avant-garde tailoring…
Dzhus unveils “Anticon” at the one-of-a-kind Concept_11 space, a project speculating on humanity’s “Utopia codes” designed to program happiness. Deciphering her own intimate trauma, Irina Dzhus saturates this cathartic collection with narratives of sociocultural conformism…
“In the brutalist skeleton of Noisy-le-Grand, I place myself inside the architecture of isolation. These monoliths speak to the silence I’ve felt as a creative—caught between inspiration and exhaustion, expression and erasure. This is not just a fashion shoot. It’s a self-portrait. Each look…
Designer Takahiro Miyashita has announced his departure from TakahiroMiyashita TheSoloist., the brand he founded in 2010 as a personal and independent project following his exit from Number (N)ine. With this decision, one of Japanese fashion’s most singular and introspective voices…
At Berlin Fashion Week, Esther Perbandt offered a study in stillness. Her presentation of “Black Tailored Summer”, held on July 3rd at the Fashion Council Germany, moved away from the runway format entirely. Instead, it favored a live, spatial installation that emphasized presence…
Glenn Martens’s highly anticipated debut as creative director of Maison Margiela’s Artisanal line arrived not with spectacle, but with a controlled, confident vision. Shown during Paris Couture Week, the collection reframed the brand’s storied codes through Martens’s own lens…