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How Veronika Németh Uses Fashion as Armour to Challenge the Male Gaze
Hungarian designer Veronika Németh uses fashion not just to clothe, but to confront. Her graduate collection at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design began as a personal reaction to the treatment of women in today’s social and political climate, especially in Hungary. For Veronika, the body isn’t a blank canvas. Instead, it acts as a…
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Rui Chen’s Dōll Blends Fashion, Identity, and Ritual
Some beauty soothes. Other beauty stirs. Rui Chen’s collection Dōll lingers in the latter, where softness coexists with defiance, and garments don’t just dress the body, but initiate it into something deeper. At once theatrical and tender, Dōll unfolds not as a fashion line but as a ceremony, a meditation on gender, artifice, and becoming.…
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Maison Cosette’s Journey Toward a New Kind of Couture
In the world of Parisian fashion, where heritage often dictates form, Maison Cosette Paris is writing its own story, one that blends memory with rebellion. Founded by Guy Bela alongside Hugo Nanga and Saory Giovanni,, the label reimagines couture as both deeply personal and quietly defiant. The name Cosette, long associated with hardship from Victor…
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Architect of Fabric: John Klif Builds His Fashion World from the Ground Up
John Klif doesn’t just design clothes, he builds them. His debut collection, LEVER DU SOLEIL (French for “sunrise”), is more than a poetic title. It’s a reflection of where he is in his journey: right at the edge of something new, bold, and full of light. Based in Sydney, Klif’s work blends the raw power…
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Yuchen Yuan Reimagines Menswear Through Villainy, Eroticism, and 1960s Tailoring
Yuchen Yuan’s graduate collection, Night and Day Clothes of Diabolik, presents a stylized exploration of duality, masculinity, and narrative dressing. Developed at the University of Westminster, the six-look collection draws on 1960s tailoring, cult cinema, and personal reflections on the body to experiment with how fashion can express desire, ambiguity, and tension. The starting point…
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Dismantling Boundaries Through Fashion: YONZU’s Approach
Fashion has long been organized around boundaries, between masculine and feminine, occasion and season, art and function. YONZU, the Seoul- and London-rooted label by designer YONZU Lee, begins by questioning these divisions. Through garments that dissolve traditional categories, the brand proposes a new way of dressing: fluid, open, and resistant to convention. This vision, at…
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Marcia La Vecchia Galan Explores the Evil Eye in Protective Fashion Collection “No Me Mires”
For emerging fashion designer Marcia La Vecchia Galan, clothing is more than aesthetics. It can carry energy, hold memory, and even protect the wearer. With her collection No Me Mires (“don’t look at me”), the Parsons School of Design student reimagines the superstition of the evil eye through sculptural, symbolic fashion. Her garments act as…
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Sustainable Indonesian fashion designer Karina Bakri turns memory into style
Sustainable Indonesian fashion designer Karina Nasywa Bakri brings memory, culture, and innovation together in her thesis collection at Parsons School of Design. Rooted in her Jakarta upbringing and family history, yet shaped by her current life in New York, her work blends deadstock fabrics, traditional Indonesian garments, and vibrant colors into a story of identity…
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Hyungmin Lee and Hirotaro Murayama redefine uniforms in NYC fashion
In New York City, where daily life runs on strict rhythms, emerging designers Hyungmin Lee and Hirotaro Murayama are reshaping what uniforms mean. Their project HTML 7277, founded at the Fashion Institute of Technology, turns order into a stage for individuality and quiet rebellion. For them, fashion begins with a question: why do control, order,…
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How a Fallen Bird Inspired a Designer’s Flight to Freedom
When Hongshan Feng stumbled across a fallen bird in a neglected flower bed on her walk home, she didn’t expect it to change her life. The bird lay quietly among artificial garbage and decaying flowers, slowly returning to the soil. “It was a moment of devastation, but also revelation,” she remembers. “It made me question…
