L'ABBEYE Issue I

L'Abbeye Issue I : the first chapter of the archive is now open for pre-order

A 400+ page coffee-table object documenting avant-garde fashion as philosophy, not trend. Standard edition 55€, Collector x Isaac Sellam 395€, 200 numbered copies.

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Impressions that linger: For Paris Photo 2026, DSM brings together photographic works that capture the energy of the fair in an unconventional, radically creative setting.

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What if beauty wasn’t preserved, but allowed to rust? Justin Matringe turns decay into design, crafting garments that corrode the very idea of fashion itself.

Between memory and marketing, fashion has learned to fake its scars. As luxury brands sell dirt, rips, and wear at a high price, the Dirty Fit trend raises a deeper question: can authenticity be manufactured, or must it be lived? From inherited jewelry to torn runways, this article explores why real wear carries meaning and why pre-damaged fashion often rings hollow.

The Emotional Weight of Loss, Migration, and Memory. How Historical Trauma Transformed into Fashion.

One aesthetic mourns the past. The other imagines the future. Between neo-gothic and neo-futurism, contemporary fashion continues to seek meaning anywhere but in the present.

Cemented at the forefront of the avant-garde, here are some looks from icons like Björk, Lady Gaga, and FKA Twigs that we cannot stop thinking about.

Carl Jung’s archetypes offer a new lens to decode avant-garde fashion. From Browne’s Trickster to Yamamoto’s Hermit, each silhouette becomes a vessel of the collective unconscious. Proof that fashion, at its most radical, speaks the language of the soul.

In light of recent exhibitions like Demna’s retrospective at the Kering headquarters and Rick Owens’ Temple of Love, we explore the tension between fashion as something to be worn and fashion as something to be preserved and exhibited.

Decades after Jeremy Scott challenged traditional footwear, the barefoot sandal returns. Can extreme design still be radical in an era of viral luxury?

A pressed flower keeps its shape but loses its life, is that what happens to fashion once it enters the archive? Through McQueen's satire, Margiela's cloned relics, and Kawakubo's outright refusal, three of fashion's most radical minds ask whether preservation is actually killing the craft.

MM6 Maison Margiela SS27 and the Havaianas Collaboration

Once confined to galleries and runways, experimental fashion now thrives in pixels, posts, and the digital underground.

Dissecting fashion's relationship with distorted, dark, and deformed imagery

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Bourdieu, Enfants Riches Déprimés, and the Limits of Irony

Impressions that linger: For Paris Photo 2026, DSM brings together photographic works that capture the energy of the fair in an unconventional, radically creative setting.

Decades after Jeremy Scott challenged traditional footwear, the barefoot sandal returns. Can extreme design still be radical in an era of viral luxury?

Marc Le Bihan in motion: a photographic collaboration between Dilettante and Co3 Contemporary Dance.

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