Category: Designer Features

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 Bella Matarese, the sea has always represented something larger than a landscape. Growing up two minutes from the ocean in Rhode Island and later living on a sailboat, she developed an intimate relationship with the water, one shaped by freedom, curiosity, and a fascination with the world existing just beneath its surface. Those experiences…

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.…

Somewhere between softness and strength, intimacy and distance, reality and imagination, there is a space that doesn’t need to be explained. It can simply exist. This space became the starting point for In Between Forms, a collaborative fashion editorial that brings together the work of three designers: Songlan Wu, Alice (Tingyu), and Yang Yang Xu.…

For VENIA, fashion begins with a question: what do we carry with us when we leave, and what do we leave behind? With its SS27 collection, Dear, Sincerely, the Los Angeles-based sustainable luxury atelier turns that question into a meditation on migration, memory, belonging, and the continuous exchange between past and future. Founded by Christine…