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Lilian Alvarez Uses Fashion to Celebrate Ecuador’s Natural Landscapes
For Ecuadorian designer Lilian Alvarez, fashion is more than making garments. It is a way of understanding the world. Through her emerging label, Lilial, she combines fashion, photography, and creative direction to tell stories rooted in memory, landscape, and identity. Rather than treating nature as visual inspiration alone, Alvarez invites people to experience it with…
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Inside Megan Chapman’s Armor-Inspired Collection
Fashion has always been more than clothing for Megan Chapman. For her, it became a way to process grief, resilience, and personal growth. Her graduate collection at the Fashion Institute of Technology is inspired by the phrase “she wore her scars like armor.” Through handcrafted metalwork and flowing textiles, Chapman explores how strength and vulnerability…
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Sam Jiang on Masculinity, Tailoring and Finding His Voice as a Designer
For Sam Jiang, He’s Ready is more than an exploration of menswear. Developed at Kingston School of Art, the collection is rooted in a personal journey from Beijing to London and in the process of understanding who he is and who he wants to become. Through tailoring, deconstruction and floral details, Jiang creates a vision…
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How Felicija Kaciulyte Finds Individuality in the Everyday
Fashion often celebrates self-expression as though it has always been available to everyone. Emerging designer Felicija Kaciulyte questions that assumption. Her graduate collection at ESMOD Paris explores what happens when individuality exists within a culture that encourages conformity instead. Drawing on family photographs from Soviet-occupied Lithuania, she uncovers the quiet ways people expressed themselves through…
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Beyond the Uniform: Effe Qi HE’s Journey from Conformity to Couture
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…
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Tianyun Lan’s Impermanence Asks Us to See Clothing Differently
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Finding Wonderland: The World-Building Mind of Zoya Polivchak
Photo by Fiamma Noto for SCAD Fashion Before Wonderland became a fashion collection, it was an escape. Not an escape from reality entirely, but from the feeling of existing slightly outside of it. For emerging designer Zoya Polivchak, imagination has always been more than a creative tool. Originally from the Florida swamps, Polivchak found herself…
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Casual, utilitarian and beautiful: Camilo Álvarez rethinks sustainable fashion
All images in this article appears as a courtesy of Camilo Álvarez. In the last couple of years, the conversation about what sustainable fashion should be has become a hot topic in the industry. Beyond what standards brands should comply with to be truly eco-friendly, an important question is how can we make fashion that…
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Inside Aida Aqilla’s Bridal Lingerie Collection Inspired by Lampung Culture
For Aida Aqilla Marsaben, this collection began long before sketches, fabric swatches, or fittings. Instead, it began with home. Growing up surrounded by Lampung traditions, stories, and values, Aida never viewed culture as something distant. Rather, it shaped her identity from an early age and eventually became a foundation for her work as a designer.…
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From Lines to Language: Inside Sohyun Jeon’s Dermal Script
For Sohyun Jeon, fashion grew from a desire to tell stories in a more tangible way. Before studying fashion design in New York, she trained as a graphic designer in South Korea, focusing on motion graphics. She loved the way design could communicate through line, composition, colour, and movement. Over time, however, she became interested…
