Freshly selected for the British Fashion Council’s prestigious NEWGEN programme, Francesca Lake is emerging as one of the most compelling new voices in London fashion. Drawing on Jamaica’s social history, cultural rituals and everyday realities, she uses clothing as a powerful tool…
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At the Musée Maillol this summer, a major retrospective revisits the dazzling world of Gianni Versace, designer, provocateur and architect of fashion’s most glamorous decade. Before fashion became content, before designers turned into global celebrities, there was Gianni Versace. The Italian designer…
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The most intimate fashion sale of the decade reveals not just garments, but the mind of one of fashion’s greatest revolutionaries. Fashion loves the word archive. The industry uses it constantly: archival pieces, archival references, archival collections. Entire careers now seem built…
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The founder of RKIVE CITY doesn’t just recycle clothes, he reconstructs memories, identities, and entire systems of value. Between Delhi, New York and the textile towns of Punjab, Ritwik Khanna has built a fashion language where repair becomes a badge of honour,…
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From Harajuku to Paris, the Design Museum’s major new retrospective traces how NIGO quietly transformed streetwear into global culture. There are designers who create clothes, and then there are those who reshape the visual language of an entire generation. For more than…
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A script from Annie Hall, rare fashion pieces, photographs, furniture and private objects: the Bonhams sale reveals Diane Keaton not as a Hollywood icon, but as a meticulous editor of atmospheres. There are actresses whose style belongs to cinema, and then there…
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In Venice, this spring, beauty refuses to behave. In a palace still intact, before its restoration, suspended between past and disappearance, the Fondazione Dries Van Noten opens its doors. The setting: Palazzo Pisani Moretta, resting on the Grand Canal. The gesture: a…
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In 1986, Antwerp didn’t ask for permission: it changed fashion. There are cities that follow trends, and then there is Antwerp. In 1986, six young designers freshly graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts rented a truck, loaded up their collections…
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Sanjay Garg does not speak about textiles as product. He speaks about them as politics, anthropology, memory and resistance. Founder of Raw Mango, he has spent nearly two decades rethinking handloom, taste and the sari, not as nostalgia, but as living systems.…
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