Astha Garg Is Designing What Stays Behind

At 21, Astha Garg has already reached a milestone many young designers spend years chasing: showing at London Fashion Week. But she does not speak about the moment as a finish line. For her, it marked a deepening of purpose. Since launching her brand at 18, Garg has wanted it

Yinghan Qian is Turning Memory Into Fossils and Clothes Into Artifacts

In A Second Without Inertia, designer Yinghan Qian treats fashion as a form of imaginative archaeology, where garments become relics, memory becomes material, and identity is something continually reconstructed rather than fixed. In A Second Without Inertia, Yinghan Qian approaches fashion less as clothing in the conventional sense and more

This Collection Challenges Why Women Are Taught to Shrink

In Modern Madonnas, Chicago-based designer Dovile Riebschlager of DoviArt Fashy rethinks what feminine strength looks like today .Through bold shapes, layered textures, and meaningful details, she explores both power and softness in equal measure. Rather than presenting the Madonna as a distant religious figure, she brings her into the present,

Darian Vacariu Explores Emotional Distance and Connection Through Fashion

For emerging designer Darian Vacariu, fashion is more than clothing. It is a way to express emotions and experiences visually. His collection La Givan, developed during his studies at Istituto Marangoni Milano, explores how people move from guarded distance to genuine connection. Through structured silhouettes, cultural references, and evolving shapes,

A Fashion Collection About Girlhood, Rage, and Control

In Monstress, Amanda Pérez looks at femininity without trying to clean it up or explain it away. Instead of treating it as something fragile or symbolic, she approaches it as something physical, something that can be pushed, reshaped, and tested. The collection took form while she was studying at CENTRO,

Alisa Dudaj and the Revival of Albanian Craft

For Alisa Dudaj, this collection began not with a sketch, but with a pause. At a time when she felt creatively adrift, searching outward for references and direction, she found herself increasingly disconnected from her work. Conversations about identity and personal language circled around her, yet the answers felt distant,

Jennifer Ong Is Using Fashion to Turn Planetary Science Into Environmental Reflection

Before fashion turns inward, Terraformé looks without – outward to science, and on to planetary history. In her STEM-influenced graduate collection, Jennifer Ong reframes fashion as an interdisciplinary language, one that sits right at a beating heart powered by art, technology, and environmental reflection. Drawing from Martian satellite imagery and

SSHEENA, the Italian punk rocker that dreams of dinosaurs

SSHEENA isn’t a conventional brand as per Milanese standards, so it’s no surprise that their creations are presented in a way that sets them apart from their counterparts in the Italian capital of style. Opting outside of the traditional runway format, SSHEENA presented Extinct Animals, their S/S 26 collection, with