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Angelina Yin’s Satirical Antidote to Workplace Anxiety
In an era dominated by relentless corporate hustle culture and LinkedIn “NPC” lingo, a new generation of creatives is finding radical ways to process employment stress. For New York-based Parsons graduate Angelina Yin, the antidote to this contemporary workplace anxiety isn’t a career pivot. Instead, she finds relief through high-fashion satire. Her thesis collection, titled…
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“In the end, it’s 100% Alice Yu”: how the Chinese designer makes heritage artistry contemporary
In a world that seems to be hellbent on dividing and stereotyping women into rigid categories (i.e.: the Madonna-Whore complex), stepping into the spotlight as a fully complex individual who also happens to be a woman can be groundbreaking, even revolutionary. It’s as if navigating the world as a woman who is determined, smart, ambitious,…
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SSHEENA, the Italian punk rocker that dreams of dinosaurs
SSHEENA isn’t a conventional brand as per Milanese standards, so it’s no surprise that their creations are presented in a way that sets them apart from their counterparts in the Italian capital of style. Opting outside of the traditional runway format, SSHEENA presented Extinct Animals, their S/S 26 collection, with a party for industry professionals…
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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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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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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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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…
