Fashion often looks forward. However, for Aditi Srivastava, it became a way to revisit the past. Her thesis collection, created at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, bridges traditional Indian craftsmanship with British imperial silhouettes. In doing so, it tells a powerful story about survival, identity, and historical
Designer Lillika Henderson fuses rust, wool, and memory in her bold graduate collection, redefining rural Australian fashion through Lillika Sarai.
Shay Greenberg’s graduate collection from Shenkar doesn’t just question the fantasy of the wedding day, it reconstructs it, thread by thread. By merging the iconic language of bridalwear with the grounded sensibility of street fashion, Shay transforms critique into a tactile experience. Her work lives in the seams, the cuts,
For Julie Wang, fashion isn’t just about dressing the body, it’s about unearthing who we are. Through her brand JUULIE JUULIE, the Parsons designer approaches fashion as a form of excavation. It becomes a tool for questioning identity, revisiting history, and telling deeply personal stories through clothing. Her guiding philosophy,
Closing the Central Saint Martins 2025 Reset show, Ukrainian designer Polishchuk carves scripture into white couture to redefine purity. “Let thy garments be white.” Ecclesiastes 9:8 -a timeless symbol of purity- is elevated into the highest form of sartorial expression in Anastasia Polishchuk’s hands, where white becomes provocation. Polishchuk confronts
In the shifting space between light and shadow, London-based designer Nigar Isayeva tells a quiet but powerful story. Her latest work, an all-black ensemble created for the Noir Show during her time at the London College of Fashion, goes beyond surface aesthetics. Instead, it becomes a meditation on modesty, mythology,
Founded by London-based designer Jojo Zan, The Digital Amber explores what it means to leave traces in a world increasingly defined by data. Through 3D-printed, bio-based accessories that mimic erosion, fossilisation, and decay, the label imagines future relics of digital identity that are quiet, reflective objects that sit between technology
Hungarian designer Veronika Németh uses fashion not just to clothe, but to confront. Her graduate collection at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design began as a personal reaction to the treatment of women in today’s social and political climate, especially in Hungary. For Veronika, the body isn’t a blank canvas.
The collection that refuses to pretend fashion exists in a vacuum. Worn and Reborn examines the realities of fashion waste through Lagos-born designer Sharon Omowayeola. Using Aso oke and discarded textiles, she reconstructs garments that sit directly inside the environments that shaped them like markets, dumpsites, crowded streets, offering a
Some beauty soothes. Other beauty stirs. Rui Chen’s collection Dōll lingers in the latter, where softness coexists with defiance, and garments don’t just dress the body, but initiate it into something deeper. At once theatrical and tender, Dōll unfolds not as a fashion line but as a ceremony, a meditation
