Category: Designer Features

  • Inside Ocean Savage’s HORSEFLY EXTENDED SS26

    Inside Ocean Savage’s HORSEFLY EXTENDED SS26

    Ocean Savage HORSEFLY EXTENDED SS26 expands the New York label’s vision through British heritage, sportswear, hand embroidery, and material experimentation.

  • Yuval Sorotzkin F/W26 Reveals what fashion usually hides

    Yuval Sorotzkin F/W26 Reveals what fashion usually hides

    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…

  • “In the end, it’s 100% Alice Yu”: how the Chinese designer makes heritage artistry contemporary

    “In the end, it’s 100% Alice Yu”: how the Chinese designer makes heritage artistry contemporary

    In a world that seems to be hellbent on dividing and stereotyping women into rigid categories (i.e.: the Madonna-Whore complex), stepping into the spotlight as a fully complex individual who also happens to be a woman can be groundbreaking, even revolutionary. It’s as if navigating the world as a woman who is determined, smart, ambitious,…

  • Astha Garg Is Designing What Stays Behind

    Astha Garg Is Designing What Stays Behind

    At 21, Astha Garg has already reached a milestone many young designers spend years chasing: showing at London Fashion Week. But she does not speak about the moment as a finish line. For her, it marked a deepening of purpose. Since launching her brand at 18, Garg has wanted it to stand for more than…

  • Inbal Heffer’s Urban Fields Explores Memory, Migration, and Craft

    Inbal Heffer’s Urban Fields Explores Memory, Migration, and Craft

    Discover how designer Inbal Heffer’s collection Urban Fields connects Moroccan heritage, 1950s tailoring, local workwear, and handcraft into a layered exploration of identity.

  • Yinghan Qian is Turning Memory Into Fossils and Clothes Into Artifacts

    Yinghan Qian is Turning Memory Into Fossils and Clothes Into Artifacts

    In A Second Without Inertia, designer Yinghan Qian treats fashion as a form of imaginative archaeology, where garments become relics, memory becomes material, and identity is something continually reconstructed rather than fixed. In A Second Without Inertia, Yinghan Qian approaches fashion less as clothing in the conventional sense and more as a perceptual field: a…

  • This Collection Challenges Why Women Are Taught to Shrink

    This Collection Challenges Why Women Are Taught to Shrink

    In Modern Madonnas, Chicago-based designer Dovile Riebschlager of DoviArt Fashy rethinks what feminine strength looks like today .Through bold shapes, layered textures, and meaningful details, she explores both power and softness in equal measure. Rather than presenting the Madonna as a distant religious figure, she brings her into the present, as a modern woman who…

  • Darian Vacariu Explores Emotional Distance and Connection Through Fashion

    Darian Vacariu Explores Emotional Distance and Connection Through Fashion

    For emerging designer Darian Vacariu, fashion is more than clothing. It is a way to express emotions and experiences visually. His collection La Givan, developed during his studies at Istituto Marangoni Milano, explores how people move from guarded distance to genuine connection. Through structured silhouettes, cultural references, and evolving shapes, the collection transforms the idea…

  • A Fashion Collection About Girlhood, Rage, and Control

    A Fashion Collection About Girlhood, Rage, and Control

    In Monstress, Amanda Pérez looks at femininity without trying to clean it up or explain it away. Instead of treating it as something fragile or symbolic, she approaches it as something physical, something that can be pushed, reshaped, and tested. The collection took form while she was studying at CENTRO, during a time when anger…

  • Alisa Dudaj and the Revival of Albanian Craft

    Alisa Dudaj and the Revival of Albanian Craft

    For Alisa Dudaj, this collection began not with a sketch, but with a pause. At a time when she felt creatively adrift, searching outward for references and direction, she found herself increasingly disconnected from her work. Conversations about identity and personal language circled around her, yet the answers felt distant, until she realized that what…