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All about Grace Wales Bonner, the new Creative Director of menswear over at Hermès
There was not a single person better qualified to dress stars at the 2025 Met Gala than Grace Wales Bonner and, when you think of her, the immediate place your mind is likely to go is that very event. There, the designer dressed a standout roster of cultural icons: Lewis Hamilton, FKA Twigs, Jeff Goldblum,…
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This Designer Rebuilt the Suit to Show That Masculinity Can Be Soft
For London-based designer Ping Chen, the classic suit is more than a symbol of tradition. It’s a starting point for rethinking masculinity, and rebuilding it with care. His graduate collection, Thing in Itself, grew from a personal question: Can masculinity come from tenderness, not control? Inspired by memories of his great-grandfather and grounded in cultural…
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Maria Grazia Chiuri has been appointed as the Chief Creative Officer of Fendi
Fendi officially announced that Maria Grazia Chiuri has been made the Chief Creative Officer of Fendi a few days ago – she will succeed Kim Jones, who stepped down from the role this October. It’s been six months since Chiuri stepped down as the creative director for Christian Dior, passing the torch on to Loewe…
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Jonathan Anderson’s Dior proves to be a passionate and contemporary billet-doux to the brand
The House of Dior rose from a period of fearfulness to coax consumers back into the arms of blushing couture. The world post-war needed a return and thus escape to the idyllic, and Christian Dior provided. The “New Look” was established, the days of poor fabric apportion abandoned in favour of stepping away from the…
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Dismantling Boundaries Through Fashion: YONZU’s Approach
Fashion has long been organized around boundaries, between masculine and feminine, occasion and season, art and function. YONZU, the Seoul- and London-rooted label by designer YONZU Lee, begins by questioning these divisions. Through garments that dissolve traditional categories, the brand proposes a new way of dressing: fluid, open, and resistant to convention. This vision, at…
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The wolf reveals itself in Sunniva Olavsdatter’s HYKLER
When Sunniva Olavsdatter began developing her debut collection, HYKLER — Ulv i Fåreklær (Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing), she wasn’t simply exploring silhouettes or textiles. She was asking a harder question: what does it mean to wear another body, and why are we so quick to disguise the true costs of fashion? “The metaphor of a…
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What else we can expect to see from Demna following his Gucci debut
Vintage frames, gilded nameplates, and more flamboyant caricatures of clientele than you could fit into a Cluedo game; few things capture the House of Gucci’s spirit more aptly than a portrait series of stylish archetypes. The brand’s essence finds its newest expression in La Famiglia, the first look at Demna Gvasalia’s debut collection for Gucci. Composed of…
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Marcia La Vecchia Galan Explores the Evil Eye in Protective Fashion Collection “No Me Mires”
For emerging fashion designer Marcia La Vecchia Galan, clothing is more than aesthetics. It can carry energy, hold memory, and even protect the wearer. With her collection No Me Mires (“don’t look at me”), the Parsons School of Design student reimagines the superstition of the evil eye through sculptural, symbolic fashion. Her garments act as…
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Resilience Becomes Her: How Fashion Changed Everything for Cleiner Cabadías
Sometimes, we have a stroke of good, or bad, luck, that can change everything in a second. Sometimes, it’s persistence and a healthy dose of stubborness what leads every person to change their destiny. In Cleiner Cabadías’ case, it’s a little bit of both, along with an undeniable talent. Hailing from Bojayá, Chocó, in the…
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UDGN perfects the power of cultural storytelling with Cultural Threads SS26
London Fashion Week has long been a stage for reinvention, but this season a new voice rises above the noise. The Unity in Design Global Network (UDGN) brings Cultural Threads SS26 to Ladbroke Hall, transforming the runway into more than just a fashion show but a place for creatives to thrive. Cultural Threads celebrates a…
