Labbeye

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.

Why Personality Fades Without the Avant-Garde

Breaking the Consumer Mindset and Reclaiming Personal Taste

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

To mark the release of The Shrouds, we revisit six moments when Cronenberg’s grotesque genius oozed into the world of fashion.

Cinema| Dark Fashion| Fashion Theory| Grotesque Beauty

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

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

DESERT COUTURE: THE FASHION EVOLUTION OF DUNE ON SCREEN

How directors like David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Denis Villeneuve envisioned Dune’s universe, and how it continues to inspire avant-garde fashion.

Art| Cinema| Dark 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

The Photographer Who Made Avant-Garde Fashion Visible

How Nick Knight transformed fashion photography into a world of imagination and possibility.

Art| Fashion Theory

The Avant-Garde Fashion Rite

When Fashion stops presenting clothes and starts staging ceremonies.

Dark Fashion| Fashion Theory

WHEN MODERNITY MEETS THE MERKIN

Why the Fashion World is Exploring Hair… Down There

Accessories| Fashion Theory| Grotesque Beauty

UPCOMING AVANT-GARDE JEWELLERY DESIGNERS YOU NEED TO KNOW !

Meet the Next Generation of Avant-Garde Jewellery

Accessories| Emerging Designers| Futuristic

Untitled, Untethered, Undefined

The new Dover Street Market brand was launched in June with the SS 26 collection of DSM Kei Ninomiya.

CLEMENTINE SMITH: UNWEARABLE FASHION, UNLIVABLE LIVES

Designing the Unwearable Inside an Inhospitable World...

Emerging Designers

Weight of Despair

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

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

Neo Gothic and Neo Futurism

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.

Dark Fashion| Futuristic| Soft Goth

BETWEEN RITUAL AND RAWNESS: LEO PROTHMANN IN CONVERSATION WITH L'ABBEYE

Dark Fashion| Eco Fashion| Emerging Designers| Interviews

TOP 10 ARTICLES :

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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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Why Personality Fades Without the Avant-Garde

Breaking the Consumer Mindset and Reclaiming Personal Taste

GWERTHWYD (SOLD)

Final Collection - Home, A Self Study

The Roman Empire of Etymology

A History of Goth

What L'ABBEYE Keeps

Dover Street Market - AW26

Between Veils

The Photographer Who Made Avant-Garde Fashion Visible

How Nick Knight transformed fashion photography into a world of imagination and possibility.

Art| Fashion Theory

Scenes from an Unwritten Play

Rusted Dreams

Accessories| Editorial

From Alexander McQueen to Matières Fécales: Embracing Your Quirky, Offbeat, and Unique Side

Fashion's most unsettling silhouettes are not mistakes, they are refusals. A look at how the grotesque became one of style’s sharpest tools of dissent.

Dark Fashion| Fashion Theory| Grotesque Beauty

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