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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.

Paris Photo 2026 at Dover Street Market Paris

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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‘A WALK IN THE FOREST’ WITH ANTONIO FEMIA

Womenswear designer Antonio Femia looks to the hometown forests in Belgium for his graduate collection at Central Saint Martins. Bridget Devine discovers more about his ritualistic design universe...

Eco Fashion| Emerging Designers| Fashion Theory| Interviews

The Threshold

FLESH AS ARCHITECTURE

Flesh As Architecture explores the human body as a constructed form rather than a living subject. e body is treated as a site of erosion - a ruin shaped by time, weight, and stillness. Through restrained movement and sculptural poses, flesh becomes structural. Limbs echo columns, joints resemble supports, and skin carries the surface of decay. What remains is not emotion, but form. The body no longer performs; it stands, monumental and silent, a ruin transformed into a statue.

The First Hello and the Last Goodbye

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GROTESQUE BEAUTY

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

Dark Fashion| Emerging Designers| Fashion Theory| Grotesque Beauty

QUEERING THE UNIFORM : SUBVERSION, KINK AND THE MILITARISATION OF STYLE

Uniforms were meant to discipline bodies and erase individuality. Yet in the hands of avant-garde designers, they become something else entirely: instruments of desire, rebellion, and identity play. From the fragile adolescent tension of Raf Simons to the hyper-queer provocations of Walter van Beirendonck and the sleek militarised sensuality of Helmut Lang, the uniform is no longer a symbol of obedience but a stage where power, vulnerability, and eroticism collide.

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Mugler Spring 2027

The Ninety Nine Percent

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HOW MCQUEEN MADE THE FASHION INDUSTRY DESCEND INTO MADNESS

A retrospective look at Alexander McQueen’s ‘Voss’ Collection.

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UPCOMING AVANT-GARDE JEWELLERY DESIGNERS YOU NEED TO KNOW !

Meet the Next Generation of Avant-Garde Jewellery

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF CONCEPTUAL FASHION : WHEN FASHION THINKS

What happens when fashion stops trying to please and starts to think? Between decay and emptiness, between Derrida and Rei Kawakubo, conceptual fashion can become a meditation: on truth, impermanence, and the self beneath appearance.

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Lonesome Heaven

THE GENESIS OF EMILIA

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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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Paris Photo 2026 at Dover Street Market Paris

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.

Strange Beings in a Strange Land

The Paradox of Subversion: How Chanel Turned the Naked Shoe into Status

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

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

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