Author: Benjamin Gaikwad

For Sophia Tech, fashion has always been a way of expressing herself. But somewhere between developing her senior thesis at the Fashion Institute of Technology and digging deeper into her Cambodian heritage, clothing became something more personal. It became a way of understanding where she comes from, the people who shaped her, and the culture…

For Juleda Alili, fashion begins somewhere between memory and imagination. The Albanian-American couture designer’s practice is deeply rooted in nature, femininity, heritage, and the tactile intimacy of making. Her latest collection, Earthly Temptations, transforms those influences into an enchanted garden populated by flowers, peacocks, swans, and hummingbirds, an otherworldly landscape where beauty and desire coexist.…

Growing up in China, designer Effe Qi HE spent much of her childhood wearing school uniforms and sports jerseys. Those garments encouraged equality through sameness and rarely invited individual expression. At the time, they felt ordinary. Years later, they became the starting point for a much deeper creative investigation. Today, the New York-based designer behind…

We often think a garment is at its best the moment we buy it. It is clean, untouched, and exactly as the designer intended. After that, every crease, stain, repair, or faded patch is often seen as a sign that something has been lost. For Tianyun Lan, those changes tell the most interesting part of…

The current era is full of rapid digital trends. Consequently, Tokyo-based designer Juri Yoneda carves out a deeply poetic space. Under her independent label, JURI, fine materials behave with expressive freedom. Indeed, her latest collection marks an intentional return to her creative roots. This project is called Alice in Jewelry Land. Moreover, it represents a…

Yuval Sorotzkin approaches fashion with a clear focus on what holds a garment together. In her work, construction never sits quietly in the background. It becomes part of the language. In Work in Ruins, corsetry, exposed stitching, horsehair, padding, fragmented tailoring, and unfinished seams do more than decorate the surface. They anchor a practice rooted…