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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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How Nigar Isayeva Uses Fashion to Reimagine Cultural Identity and Modesty
In the shifting space between light and shadow, London-based designer Nigar Isayeva tells a quiet but powerful story. Her latest work, an all-black ensemble created for the Noir Show during her time at the London College of Fashion, goes beyond surface aesthetics. Instead, it becomes a meditation on modesty, mythology, and cultural identity, grounded in…
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How Veronika Németh Uses Fashion as Armour to Challenge the Male Gaze
Hungarian designer Veronika Németh uses fashion not just to clothe, but to confront. Her graduate collection at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design began as a personal reaction to the treatment of women in today’s social and political climate, especially in Hungary. For Veronika, the body isn’t a blank canvas. Instead, it acts as a…
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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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Who Is Responsible for Conscious Fashion?
By Kahina – @The CFO Diary Image courtesy: Getty Image We live in an era where the same houses preaching mindfulness launch ten new collections a year. Where #ConsciousChoice trends beside #NewIn. Where “responsibility” has become fashion’s most elegant accessory, easy to wear and easier to drop. The call for conscious fashion is real. But…
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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…
