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Samet Akkus Turns His Grandfather’s Migration Story Into a Graduate Collection

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Sophia Tech’s SAMIKA Studios Is a Love Letter to Community

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…
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Finding Refuge Within Yourself: Inside the World of Oliver Noir

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The Tokyo Fashion Week SS/27 Diaries Part 3: Days 5 & 6

All images on this article, except for Khoki and Kidill x Hizume x Alpha Industries, appear as a courtesy of Japan Fashion Week Organization and Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo. The images of the Khoki runway show appear as a courtesy of the brand. The images of the Kidill x Hizume x Alpha Industries presentation were…
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Bella Matarese Turned Her Love of Sailing Into a Collection

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…
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Meet Juleda, the Designer Transforming Nature Into Dreamlike Couture

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.…
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This Collection Exists Somewhere Between Reality and Imagination

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.…
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The Tokyo Fashion Week SS/27 Diaries Part 2: Days 3 & 4

All images on this article appear as a courtesy of Japan Fashion Week Organization and Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo. DAY 3 – SEPTEMBER 2ND, 2026 EITARO – 脱 The word “datsu” in Japanese means “remove”, and the textile layering that was at the core of this collection suggested that there was something waiting to be…
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VENIA’s “Dear, Sincerely” Finds Beauty in What We Carry Forward

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…
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The tokyo fashion week ss/27 diaries part one: days 1 & 2

All images on this article appear as a courtesy of Japan Fashion Week Organization and Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo. DAY 1: AUGUST 31ST, 2026 YOSHIOKUBO – Natural Born Nomads The opening show for this edition of Tokyo Fashion Week was YOSHIOKUBO’s SS/27 collection Natural Born Nomads, inspired by an alternative universe where the designer reimagines…