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HEAVENLY BODIES REVISITED : FELLINI'S VATICAN RUNWAY, MODERN FASHION, AND OUR OBSESSION WITH RELIGIOUS SPECTACLE

While the recent media frenzy around the Vatican might have cooled off, fashion keeps returning to Catholic imagery, and perhaps that is no coincidence.

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IT'S NOT JUSTE JEWELLERY. IT'S MIA GOSSET.

Mia Gosset continually rethinks what jewellery and objects can be. Here, she shares her process, inspirations, and the vision behind her practice, uncovering what truly makes Mia Gosset, Mia Gosset.

Accessories| Art| Emerging Designers| Interviews

WHEN MODERNITY MEETS THE MERKIN

Why the Fashion World is Exploring Hair… Down There

Accessories| Fashion Theory| Grotesque Beauty

GETTING TO THE BONES OF IT: WHEN MORBID CURIOSITY MEETS FASHION

Exploring the use of bones and skeletons as imagery and motifs across avant-garde fashion and design

Dark Fashion| Fashion Theory| Grotesque Beauty

SILENCE IN A LOUD INDUSTRY: THE RISE OF ANONYMOUS FASHION

Anonymous fashion is quietly reshaping the industry. Inspired by the legacy of Martin Margiela and embodied by designers like Carol Christian Poell and Aleksandr Manamïs, this movement rejects celebrity culture and returns focus to craftsmanship, material, and form.

Dark Fashion| Emerging Designers| Fashion Theory

THE GOTHIC REBIRTH OF MINIMALISM

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HOW 15TH-CENTURY GERMAN MERCENARIES BECAME AVANT-GARDE ICONS

Centuries before punk or avant-garde existed, German mercenaries were already slashing fabric, clashing colours, and defying social codes. The Landsknechts of the 15th century turned rebellion into style, and their fearless self-expression still echoes across today’s runways.

Dark Fashion| Fashion Theory| Grotesque Beauty

CLEMENTINE SMITH: UNWEARABLE FASHION, UNLIVABLE LIVES

Designing the Unwearable Inside an Inhospitable World...

Emerging Designers

THE OBSESSION WITH DECAY

From distressed denim to decomposing garments, the aesthetics of ruin, erosion, and entropy in emerging fashion may signal a deeper response to the glossy unreality of digital perfection.

Dark Fashion| Eco Fashion| Fashion Theory| Grotesque Beauty

HOW JAPANESE DESIGNERS SHAPED THE FUTURE OF AVANT-GARDE FASHION

Japanese designers redefined avant-garde by merging tradition, philosophy, and innovation. From deconstruction to minimalism, their influence reshaped Western fashion and continues to inspire a generation seeking authenticity over perfection.

Dark Fashion| Fashion Theory| Japanese Designers

JUNGIAN ARCHETYPES AND AVANT GARDE FASHION PERSONA

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.

Art| Dark Fashion| Fashion Theory| Japanese Designers

MATERIAL INSTINCT: ZWYRTECH IN CONVERSATION WITH L’ABBEYE

Based in Warsaw, Zwyrtech blurs the line between jewellery and sculpture, embracing imperfection through a hands-on and exploratory process.

Accessories| Emerging Designers

INTERVIEW : VICTOR CLAVELLY'S SURREAL FASHION LORE

Blending video game design, CGI, and couture craftsmanship, Victor Clavelly transforms technology into poetry. His creations stretch the limits of the body, reimagining what fashion - and reality - can become.

Emerging Designers| Futuristic| Interviews

PETRA FAGERSTRÖM RE-INTERPRETS HOW CONDITIONED DYNAMICS IMPRINT ON WOMANHOOD

The Swedish designer presented her first London Fashion Week collection as an independent brand at Studio Smithfield.

Emerging Designers| Fashion Theory

THE GENESIS OF EMILIA

Editorial

THE INFLUENCES OF SUBCULTURES IN RICK OWENS' ART

Rick Owens draws from the shadows of musical subcultures, transforming their raw energy into a sculptural aesthetic. His work carries the spirit of underground movements, rebellious, ritualistic, and imbued with a dark romanticism. These influences do more than just inspire him; they form the backbone of his language. So what are they?

Dark Fashion| Fashion Theory

INTERVIEW : VICTOR CLAVELLY'S SURREAL FASHION LORE

CORROSION AS CRAFT: RETHINKING FASHION THROUGH DECAY

THE GOTHIC REBIRTH OF MINIMALISM

THE EVOLUTION OF AVANT-GARDE IN FASHION

THE PASSERBY

HOW MCQUEEN MADE THE FASHION INDUSTRY DESCEND INTO MADNESS

WHAT "AVANT-GARDE" REALLY MEANS IN FASHION

EXPLORING THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL OF FISH SKIN FOR FASHION: INTERVIEW WITH ISABELLE TAYLOR

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH: 6 TIMES DAVID CRONENBERG INSPIRED RUNWAY DESIGNERS

MATERIAL INSTINCT: ZWYRTECH IN CONVERSATION WITH L’ABBEYE

Based in Warsaw, Zwyrtech blurs the line between jewellery and sculpture, embracing imperfection through a hands-on and exploratory process.

Accessories| Emerging Designers

HAIRSTYLES AS CULTURAL CODES

Hair has always carried meaning beyond adornment. It is a language of ancestry, divinity, and resistance. Through Yoruba philosophy, African ritual, and contemporary fashion, this piece explores how the act of styling -braiding, covering, shaving- becomes both memory and message, both art and prayer.

Art| Dark Fashion| Fashion Theory

THESE FURNITURE AND DECOR BRANDS WILL HELP YOU LIVE INSIDE A WORK OF ART

Think of homes that feel more like installations, minimal to the extreme, anti cozy, sometimes even intentionally disorienting.

Art| Design| Fashion Theory

FIVE UNDERRATED BRANDS YOU SHOULD KNOW

These five underrated brands are quietly reshaping fashion with bold ideas and unique visions. Discover who’s flying under the radar and why they deserve your attention now.

Eco Fashion| Emerging Designers

BEAUTIFULLY BIZZARE AND UNFORGETTABLE: 5 ARTISTS TO DISCOVER

If you are into the surreal and the macabre, this list might be for you.

Art| Design| Fashion Theory| Grotesque Beauty

THE OBSESSION WITH DECAY

From distressed denim to decomposing garments, the aesthetics of ruin, erosion, and entropy in emerging fashion may signal a deeper response to the glossy unreality of digital perfection.

Dark Fashion| Eco Fashion| Fashion Theory| Grotesque Beauty

HUSSEIN CHALAYAN: THE FASHION DESIGNER WHO INVENTED WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY BEFORE AI

From transforming furniture into dresses to garments embedded with motors, lasers, and microchips, Hussein Chalayan revolutionized the relationship between fashion and technology. This article explores how the British-Cypriot designer became one of the earliest pioneers of wearable tech and conceptual fashion.

Art| Eco Fashion| Fashion Theory| Futuristic

ELENA DAWSON : THE GARDEN OF FORGOTTEN MEMORIES, A BOTANICAL ELEGY OF SOFTH GOTHIC

Elena Dawson is not a brand. It is a state of being, a phenomenon whose aura resists all attempts at categorization within fashion’s coordinate systems. Her creative work is a secluded sanctuary, a chapel on the outskirts of the industry. Here, a particular, deeply intimate romance is born : the romance of a soft gothic, devoid of vampiric pomp and grotesquery, yet imbued with Victorian melancholy and the stoic grace of decay.

Dark Fashion| Eco Fashion| Fashion Theory| Soft Goth

ANNIE LENNOX: TEN LOOKS THROUGH THE LENS OF MUSIC AND IDENTITY

As she releases her Retrospective book, we chart the Eurythmics vocalist's looks across different musical eras, and how they shaped fashion, gender representation, and the visual vocabulary of pop.

Cinema| Fashion Theory

REMEMBERING EIKO ISHIOKA: AVANT-GARDE ARCHITECT OF COSTUME AND VISION

Known for her Oscar-winning costumes in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and her visionary work across film, theater, and fashion, Ishioka blended avant-garde artistry with wearable sculpture.

Art| Fashion Theory

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While the recent media frenzy around the Vatican might have cooled off, fashion keeps returning to Catholic imagery, and perhaps that is no coincidence.

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Mia Gosset continually rethinks what jewellery and objects can be. Here, she shares her process, inspirations, and the vision behind her practice, uncovering what truly makes Mia Gosset, Mia Gosset.

Why the Fashion World is Exploring Hair… Down There

Exploring the use of bones and skeletons as imagery and motifs across avant-garde fashion and design

Anonymous fashion is quietly reshaping the industry. Inspired by the legacy of Martin Margiela and embodied by designers like Carol Christian Poell and Aleksandr Manamïs, this movement rejects celebrity culture and returns focus to craftsmanship, material, and form.

Centuries before punk or avant-garde existed, German mercenaries were already slashing fabric, clashing colours, and defying social codes. The Landsknechts of the 15th century turned rebellion into style, and their fearless self-expression still echoes across today’s runways.

Designing the Unwearable Inside an Inhospitable World...

From distressed denim to decomposing garments, the aesthetics of ruin, erosion, and entropy in emerging fashion may signal a deeper response to the glossy unreality of digital perfection.

Japanese designers redefined avant-garde by merging tradition, philosophy, and innovation. From deconstruction to minimalism, their influence reshaped Western fashion and continues to inspire a generation seeking authenticity over perfection.

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.

Based in Warsaw, Zwyrtech blurs the line between jewellery and sculpture, embracing imperfection through a hands-on and exploratory process.

Blending video game design, CGI, and couture craftsmanship, Victor Clavelly transforms technology into poetry. His creations stretch the limits of the body, reimagining what fashion - and reality - can become.

The Swedish designer presented her first London Fashion Week collection as an independent brand at Studio Smithfield.

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Based in Warsaw, Zwyrtech blurs the line between jewellery and sculpture, embracing imperfection through a hands-on and exploratory process.

Think of homes that feel more like installations, minimal to the extreme, anti cozy, sometimes even intentionally disorienting.

These five underrated brands are quietly reshaping fashion with bold ideas and unique visions. Discover who’s flying under the radar and why they deserve your attention now.

If you are into the surreal and the macabre, this list might be for you.

From distressed denim to decomposing garments, the aesthetics of ruin, erosion, and entropy in emerging fashion may signal a deeper response to the glossy unreality of digital perfection.

As she releases her Retrospective book, we chart the Eurythmics vocalist's looks across different musical eras, and how they shaped fashion, gender representation, and the visual vocabulary of pop.

Known for her Oscar-winning costumes in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and her visionary work across film, theater, and fashion, Ishioka blended avant-garde artistry with wearable sculpture.

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