“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…
For the 2023 production “Falling/In Love” at Berlin’s Friedrichstadt-Palast, Jean-Paul Gaultier invited the Montreal-based design duo Matières Fécales to collaborate on an ambitious theatrical vision. The result: a series of twenty costumes that punctuated the stage with…
At the intersection of tradition and invention, the Polimoda Graduate Show 2025 unfolded inside Florence’s industrial cathedral, Stazione Leopolda, marking the official opening of Pitti Uomo 108. What has historically been a proving ground for fledgling designers emerged this season…
The Palais Galliera is holding the first exhibition in Paris dedicated to the work of avant-garde fashion designer Rick Owens. It features collections from his early beginnings in Los Angeles through to his most recent. With a fascination for spiritual ritual, his creations draw on a wide range…
Antwerp-based designer Marcel Sommer approaches fashion with a clear vision: to create clothing that speaks through emotion, texture, and form. With a foundation in bespoke tailoring and patternmaking, followed by four intensive years at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts…
There are designers who dress the world, and then there are those who reimagine it. Boris Bidjan Saberi belongs to the latter. His garments were never just clothes, but propositions. Cut in leather, layered in shadow, speaking in a language that was as much spiritual as it was sartorial…
Life has a strange way of connecting all the dots that form our experiences and character, which in turn lead us to where we are meant to be and who we are supposed to become. Devoa’s creative director, Daisuke Nishida, is one of those individuals who is a living testimony of this…
Designer Constanzia Yurashko’s latest collection, “Nothingness,” delves deeply into the enigmatic facets of reality and identity. Yurashko describes “Nothingness” as an exploration of the essence of existence and the underlying forces that shape our perceptions…
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…