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How a Fallen Bird Inspired a Designer’s Flight to Freedom
When Hongshan Feng stumbled across a fallen bird in a neglected flower bed on her walk home, she didn’t expect it to change her life. The bird lay quietly among artificial garbage and decaying flowers, slowly returning to the soil. “It was a moment of devastation, but also revelation,” she remembers. “It made me question…
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Blending Realms: Phillipa Signorelli’s PERCEPTION Collection
Emerging Sydney-based fashion designer Phillipa Signorelli is quietly establishing herself in the Australian fashion scene with a thoughtful approach to design that merges imaginative concepts with innovative technologies. Her latest collection, PERCEPTION, presented as part of her Honours graduation from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), explores an evocative blend of dream-like states and digital aesthetics.…
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From Isolation to Exploration How Kubeko Translates Emotion Into Fashion
Fashion often thrives on spectacle, but Kubeko finds strength in quietness. For the New York–based label, design begins not with grand statements but with what they call a “shy rebellion.” It’s a rebellion not against others but against the desire to conform. “The world can be a loud place and society can be judgmental, making…
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Maxine Roeder mixes eco-friendly textiles with upcycled cuttings
In the realm of sustainable couture, emerging designer Maxine Roeder is crafting a name for herself with Featherplight, a collection that blends environmental responsibility with the refinement of high fashion. This eco-friendly couture project transforms textile waste into wearable art, using birds as both muse and message. Through intricate craftsmanship and conscious design choices, Roeder…
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Pearl Lu weaves family history into her stunning thesis designs
Pearl Lu’s Parsons thesis fashion collection, Don’t Weep, Willow, is more than a graduation project, it is a deeply personal tribute to her mother, an artist who no longer paints. “This collection is an homage to my mother,” she says. “It’s years of unsaid words.” The title comes from her mother’s favorite plant, the weeping…
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The Elegance of Indigenous Weaving by Somos Mhuyscas
All images in this interview are a courtesy of Somos Mhuyscas. While weaving is usually associated to ancient techniques of the native groups in the American continent, in fact this art can be found in many places around the world, ranging from tradicional textiles to contemporary versions adapted to modern sensibilities. According to Milcíades Estiven…
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Runtan Du: Fashion as Storytelling and Worldbuilding
Fashion, at its core, is about storytelling, connecting human experiences, cultural histories, and personal identities through fabric and form. Emerging designer Runtan Du embodies this vision powerfully with his latest collection, “Undefined Deity.” A recent graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Du sees fashion not simply as clothing, but as a tool to explore complex, universal narratives of human…
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Light and darkness, Ying and Yang: JOEG and the beauty in toughness
JOEG, the streetwear brand from Bogotá, Colombia founded in 2020 by José Julián Guerrero, walks the line between tough urban clothing, tailoring’s technical softness and the quintessential melancholy of the city it hails from: a mix of metropolitan chaos and mountain stillness. Right before the presentation of BALAM, JOEG’s new S/S 26 collection, on June…
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For Guzo Atelier: “Feeling Unique is True Luxury”
If you want to find an independent fashion brand that is 100% custom made, explores Caribbean chic under the lens of local sensibilities and is completely sustainable, then Guzo Atelier is what you are looking for. The Montería born, Bogotá based designer has established his concept – encapsulated in the word “TRASCENDENCIA” which comes from…
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Fashion as Subversion: How Klara Schmidt Uses Design to Challenge Right-Wing Populism
Klara Schmidt is a designer, a provocateur, and an activist. Having studied fashion design in Munich, London, and now Berlin, she blends history, politics, and playfulness into her work. Her debut collection, Grotesk und unnuetzlich (Grotesque and Useless), is not just about clothing—it’s a powerful critique of rising populism and the absurdity of military power…
