Designer Features

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…

For Peilin Chen, this question began with something very ordinary: three suitcases. For the past seven years, Chen has moved between China and the United States every few months, carrying her life back and forth between two places, two languages, and different cultural expectations. Over time, packing and unpacking became more than a practical routine.…

For Natali Yegudayev, fashion began at home. Both of her grandmothers used to sew wedding dresses, while her mother passed down a knowledge of handcraft techniques including embroidery, knitting, and hand sewing. At 15, Yegudayev bought her first sewing machine and began experimenting. What started as curiosity gradually became a way of understanding herself and…

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…