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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.

Otherwise Worn

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

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Is There Such a Thing as a “System of Fashion”?

Why modern runways stopped being a text to read, and became a sensation to feel.

Maison Margiela Tokyo: 20 Years at 2-8-13

The Shape You Are Pressed Into

RAGS AND RICHES

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.

Eco Fashion| Fashion Theory

The Ninety Nine Percent

The First Hello and the Last Goodbye

Finding Beauty in an Unknown Future

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.

Art| Fashion Theory| Medieval core

7 PAIRS OF AVANT GARDE KILLER FOOTWEAR

Stepping on necks in terrifyingly beautiful shoes by designers like Rick Owens, Myah Hasbany, and Comme Des Garçons

Accessories| Dark Fashion| Emerging Designers| Futuristic| Japanese Designers

MAINSTREAM DOWNSTREAM

In June 2003, along the quiet waters of Milan’s Naviglio Grande, Carol Christian Poell staged one of the most haunting fashion presentations of the 21st century. Far from the conventional runway, his Spring/Summer 2004 show unfolded on the surface of a canal, where garments and models alike drifted in silence, part procession, part apparition. Echoing the spectral stillness of Millais’s Ophelia, Poell’s vision transformed fashion into ritual, decay into desire, and garments into relics. This article revisits that unforgettable moment, where control gave way to current, and fashion, freed from speed and spectacle…

Art| Dark Fashion| Fashion Theory

From a Place Beyond Our Reach

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

Noir Kei Ninomiya SS27

ANN DEMEULEMEESTER AW25: ROAD TO NEVER

TO BE WORN OR TO BE WATCHED

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.

Art| Fashion Theory

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

Isabelle Taylor is a beautifully unconventional surrealist fashion designer specialising in fish leather, a sustainable material made from the byproducts of smoked salmon, which she uses to create garments through her brand, Skinned Potential.

Eco Fashion| Emerging Designers| Fashion Theory| Interviews

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INTERVIEW : VICTOR CLAVELLY'S SURREAL FASHION LORE

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CORROSION AS CRAFT: RETHINKING FASHION THROUGH DECAY

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THE GOTHIC REBIRTH OF MINIMALISM

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THE EVOLUTION OF AVANT-GARDE IN FASHION

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THE PASSERBY

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HOW MCQUEEN MADE THE FASHION INDUSTRY DESCEND INTO MADNESS

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WHAT "AVANT-GARDE" REALLY MEANS IN FASHION

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

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

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Otherwise Worn

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

Blind Spots

Religion as an Aesthetic

Can You Wear the Sacred Without Believing in It?

L’ABBEYE Selects: Three Shows of PFW SS27

The Space in Between

Maison Margiela Tokyo: 20 Years at 2-8-13

The First Hello and the Last Goodbye

Finding Beauty in an Unknown Future

From a Place Beyond Our Reach

Sunset and Silver

Figures de Passage

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