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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…
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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…
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Fashion, punk rock and anime meet at ADDIXY’s collaboration with Ai Yazawa’s Nana
If you like Japanese animation, rock and roll and fashion, you are most likely a fan of Nana. Ai Yazawa’s cult series, released in different formats such as anime (animated TV series), manga (comic book) and live action (movie with human actors), is a staple for anyone who loves Vivienne Westwood’s punk rock garments, heart-wrenching…
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Jennifer Ong Is Using Fashion to Turn Planetary Science Into Environmental Reflection
Before fashion turns inward, Terraformé looks without – outward to science, and on to planetary history. In her STEM-influenced graduate collection, Jennifer Ong reframes fashion as an interdisciplinary language, one that sits right at a beating heart powered by art, technology, and environmental reflection. Drawing from Martian satellite imagery and guided by a deep commitment…
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SSHEENA, the Italian punk rocker that dreams of dinosaurs
SSHEENA isn’t a conventional brand as per Milanese standards, so it’s no surprise that their creations are presented in a way that sets them apart from their counterparts in the Italian capital of style. Opting outside of the traditional runway format, SSHEENA presented Extinct Animals, their S/S 26 collection, with a party for industry professionals…
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Join Madomorpho’s tropical paradise at The Resort
While fashion is typically associated with all things girly and feminine, the truth of the industry is that it’s largely male dominated. As of 2025, most of the creative directors of the big fashion houses are men, and according to the research of 1 Granary, women make up 74% of fashion school graduates but only…
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Aditi Srivastava Is Reviving Indian Heritage Through Punk-Inspired Fashion
Fashion often looks forward. However, for Aditi Srivastava, it became a way to revisit the past. Her thesis collection, created at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, bridges traditional Indian craftsmanship with British imperial silhouettes. In doing so, it tells a powerful story about survival, identity, and historical resistance. “I found it increasingly…
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How Lillika Sarai Reinvented Rural Australian Style
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Why Shay Greenberg’s Bridalwear Is Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before
Shay Greenberg’s graduate collection from Shenkar doesn’t just question the fantasy of the wedding day, it reconstructs it, thread by thread. By merging the iconic language of bridalwear with the grounded sensibility of street fashion, Shay transforms critique into a tactile experience. Her work lives in the seams, the cuts, and the physical effort behind…
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What Happens When a Designer Treats Clothing Like an Archaeological Site
For Julie Wang, fashion isn’t just about dressing the body, it’s about unearthing who we are. Through her brand JUULIE JUULIE, the Parsons designer approaches fashion as a form of excavation. It becomes a tool for questioning identity, revisiting history, and telling deeply personal stories through clothing. Her guiding philosophy, what she calls a “new…
