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In a requiem for an unembodied existential projection, Ukrainian designer Irina Dzhus translates “patterns into patterns”, converting grief into avant-garde. Having previously escaped the war and a family abuse experience, she has stumbled upon a seemingly safe personal life…

Launched in Paris in February 2025, Elena Najdovska is a contemporary jewelry brand that approaches adornment as a study in anatomy, sculpture, and transformation. Working primarily with 925 sterling silver and bird bones adapted to human morphology, the brand reimagines…

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…

“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…

Los Angeles based avant-garde brand Venia presents their Spring/Summer 2025 capsule “When You Were There,” a poetic exploration of memory, loss, and the ethereal space between presence and absence. The collection unfolds as a quiet elegy, capturing the fragile beauty of memory and…