“The Church of Our Becoming” reclaims and reimagines classical ideals of the human form in Greek statuary. Photographed with a thermal camera, known for its usage by the military, which sees heat and probes beneath the skin. Mahr’s portraits instead capture the radiance of…
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…
Jeanne Vicerial, the young French textile artist, has a new show at Galerie Templon where she unveils the result of two years spent exploring the notion of metamorphosis. For the Nymphose exhibition, Vicerial fills the gallery’s original space in Rue Beaubourg in Paris with her…
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…
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…
Octo Ocular approaches eyewear as structure, not embellishment. Based in Mexico City, the brand draws from the unapologetic force of Brutalist architecture to create pieces that carry weight, visually and conceptually. Each model is built with defined volumes and sharp…
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…
Deceres Studio is a Los Angeles-based design and furniture studio founded in 2020 by Denise Martinez and Jorge Arturo Ibarra. Known for its minimalist, sculptural approach, the studio sits at the intersection of art, architecture, and design. Their work is defined by bold…
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…
Federico Salvador, the Italian artist known as No Faith, treads a fine line between light and obscurity. Through his photo manipulations, he transfigures beauty, concealing it behind dark textures and layers—or perhaps revealing the depths of his darker side. His work invites viewers to…