Founded in 1988, Démoo has long occupied a distinctive position within South Korean fashion, cultivating an approach that privileges quiet construction, layered silhouettes, and a subtle dialogue between tradition and experimentation. Over decades, the brand has developed…
At 82, Yohji Yamamoto continues to treat fashion as an ongoing investigation rather than a resolved language. His Fall/Winter 2026 womenswear collection, presented during Paris Fashion Week, unfolded as a quiet meditation on construction, gesture, and the expressive possibilities of…
Ziggy Chen’s Fall/Winter 2026/27 “Dissparation,” presented during Paris Fashion Week, unfolds as a quiet study in tension, where memory is neither sentimental nor fixed but allowed to drift, fracture, and settle into new forms. Fragments of the past are displaced and reassembled…
Comme des Garçons Homme Plus presented for Fall/Winter 2026, a collection centered on altered tailoring and controlled construction. Working largely in black, Rei Kawakubo focused on garments that were split, folded back, or left open to reveal their internal structures…
Rick Owens titled his Fall/Winter 2026 menswear collection Tower, referencing “Temple of Love, Tower of Light.” The phrase suggests hope and devotion, yet Owens complicates the image. Towers also observe, control, and enforce. The collection operates within this tension…
Songzio presented its Fall/Winter 2026 collection, “Crushed Cast Constructed”, during Men’s Paris Fashion Week. The presentation offered a focused view of the brand’s ongoing exploration of form, structure, and material through a tightly controlled visual language…
Junya Watanabe’s Spring/Summer 2026 women’s show in Paris reminded us of the power of black, not as uniform but as structure. The darker looks, presented toward the end of the show, revealed his instinct for precision and transformation, where the act of construction became…
Yohji Yamamoto’s Spring/Summer 2026 show in Paris made black once again the starting point and the entire vocabulary through which everything else was expressed. The collection was built from a series of layered constructions that shifted gently between the…
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…
For Fall/Winter 2025/26, Yuima Nakazato presented “Glacier”, a collection informed by the physical extremes of the Arctic and a growing concern for the body’s vulnerability in both natural and constructed environments. Shown at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris…
At Paris Fashion Week, Ziggy Chen unveiled “Pritrike”, a collection that builds on his signature approach to deconstructed tailoring and material experimentation. The title combines the words “primal” and “strike,” suggesting a natural force that is both vital and understated…