Fendi officially announced that Maria Grazia Chiuri has been made the Chief Creative Officer of Fendi a few days ago – she will succeed Kim Jones, who stepped down from the role this October. It’s been six months since Chiuri stepped down as the creative director for Christian Dior, passing
Fashion becomes a language of survival for Jewel Kaye, the multidisciplinary creative behind Wijnruit. Through his London-based label, Kaye transforms pain into beauty, merging myth and material in a story of metamorphosis and rebirth. “I was obsessed with danger,” he recalls. “Then the crash came, and my back broke, and
The House of Dior rose from a period of fearfulness to coax consumers back into the arms of blushing couture. The world post-war needed a return and thus escape to the idyllic, and Christian Dior provided. The “New Look” was established, the days of poor fabric apportion abandoned in favour
Fashion has long been organized around boundaries, between masculine and feminine, occasion and season, art and function. YONZU, the Seoul- and London-rooted label by designer YONZU Lee, begins by questioning these divisions. Through garments that dissolve traditional categories, the brand proposes a new way of dressing: fluid, open, and resistant
Duran Lantink’s debut for Jean Paul Gaultier was everything you’d hope for from a designer stepping into the house of the original fashion provocateur — bold, unapologetic, and laced with just the right amount of shock value. The Dutch designer didn’t hold back, pulling from Gaultier’s legacy of rebellion and
Matthieu Blazy’s debut for Chanel was the perfect finale to Paris Fashion Week, beautiful, thoughtful, and quietly revolutionary. As one of the most anticipated shows of the season, it carried the kind of expectation that only a house like Chanel can command. Blazy, only the fourth designer to lead the
Miguel Castro Freitas’ debut at Mugler was a fascinating moment, a collection that honored the brand’s audacious DNA while quietly rethinking what sexy looks like today. Freitas titled the collection “Stardust Aphrodite,” and it played on contrasts: fantasy and reality, softness and structure, light and dark. The show took place
If this debut was any indication, Balenciaga is entering a new era, one that values emotion over irony. Pierpaolo Piccioli’s debut for Balenciaga was, in a word, stunning. It’s rare to see a collection that feels both completely timeless and so relevant to the moment. But that’s what this was—thoughtful,
How do you follow up a designer like Jonathan Anderson? That was the question hanging over Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez as they made their debut for Loewe this season. For more than a decade, Anderson redefined the brand, turning it from a Spanish leather house into one of the
When Sunniva Olavsdatter began developing her debut collection, HYKLER — Ulv i Fåreklær (Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing), she wasn’t simply exploring silhouettes or textiles. She was asking a harder question: what does it mean to wear another body, and why are we so quick to disguise the true costs of
