-
How Lillika Sarai Reinvented Rural Australian Style
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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.…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
