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How Lillika Sarai Reinvented Rural Australian Style
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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…
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Inside the World of an Emerging Central Saint Martins Designer
Closing the Central Saint Martins 2025 Reset show, Ukrainian designer Polishchuk carves scripture into white couture to redefine purity. “Let thy garments be white.” Ecclesiastes 9:8 -a timeless symbol of purity- is elevated into the highest form of sartorial expression in Anastasia Polishchuk’s hands, where white becomes provocation. Polishchuk confronts the tension between sacred and…
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Jojo Zan Asks: What Will Be Left of Us?
Founded by London-based designer Jojo Zan, The Digital Amber explores what it means to leave traces in a world increasingly defined by data. Through 3D-printed, bio-based accessories that mimic erosion, fossilisation, and decay, the label imagines future relics of digital identity that are quiet, reflective objects that sit between technology and archaeology, memory and material.…
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What Shaykara’s new collection really tells us about Fashion Waste
The collection that refuses to pretend fashion exists in a vacuum. Worn and Reborn examines the realities of fashion waste through Lagos-born designer Sharon Omowayeola. Using Aso oke and discarded textiles, she reconstructs garments that sit directly inside the environments that shaped them like markets, dumpsites, crowded streets, offering a grounded, necessary critique of consumption…
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Rui Chen’s Dōll Blends Fashion, Identity, and Ritual
Some beauty soothes. Other beauty stirs. Rui Chen’s collection Dōll lingers in the latter, where softness coexists with defiance, and garments don’t just dress the body, but initiate it into something deeper. At once theatrical and tender, Dōll unfolds not as a fashion line but as a ceremony, a meditation on gender, artifice, and becoming.…
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Maison Cosette’s Journey Toward a New Kind of Couture
In the world of Parisian fashion, where heritage often dictates form, Maison Cosette Paris is writing its own story, one that blends memory with rebellion. Founded by Guy Bela alongside Hugo Nanga and Saory Giovanni,, the label reimagines couture as both deeply personal and quietly defiant. The name Cosette, long associated with hardship from Victor…
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HTML 7277’s NYC Exhibition Turns Fashion into a System of Surveillance
When we first featured HTML 7277 in The Vanilla Issue, the duo was preparing for their debut New York exhibition. That show, CTRL <observables>, has since taken place at The Blanc, a curatorial space in Midtown Manhattan known for advancing experimental visual and performance art within a leading commercial gallery context. Hosted at The Blanc…
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Architect of Fabric: John Klif Builds His Fashion World from the Ground Up
John Klif doesn’t just design clothes, he builds them. His debut collection, LEVER DU SOLEIL (French for “sunrise”), is more than a poetic title. It’s a reflection of where he is in his journey: right at the edge of something new, bold, and full of light. Based in Sydney, Klif’s work blends the raw power…
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How Ariel Berka Turns Fashion into a Language of Strength and Vulnerability
When Ariel Berka named her graduation collection First Person Feminine, the phrase came to her instantly. For her, it signaled intimacy and resistance. “It’s about reclaiming narrative: a woman telling her own story in the first person, rather than being spoken for or objectified,” she explains. The designs speak as much as they dress, carrying…
