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

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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.

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

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.

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

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

Avant-garde designers like Iris van Herpen, Gareth Pugh and Hussein Chalayan are redefining fashion as architecture. In this emerging landscape of “unwearable fashion,” garments become sculptural experiments that challenge wearability, identity and the future of the human body.

Tracing avant-garde’s path from its revolutionary roots of Elsa Schiaparelli, Rei Kawakubo, and McQueen to today’s branches of gothic elegance.

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

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.

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

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Egúngún masqueraders, Benin. Elaborately layered costumes conceal the performers’ identities, transforming them into figures of ancestral ritual.

Following the death of the last horse in a stable, a man reveals a ritualistic scene, shaped by grief and the human-animal bond.

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

When Fashion stops presenting clothes and starts staging ceremonies.

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

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.

In summer, the body is no longer concealed. And dressing becomes a ritual of what we chose to elevate.

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