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While a new exhibition in Paris celebrates 1997 as a “Big Bang” year in fashion, ideas sparked in the early ’90s were at play on the runway this season in the form of deconstruction. The technique, associated with Martin Margiela and the…

Celebrity culture is one of the designer’s fascinations that gives way, at times, to high camp, but not just in terms of aesthetics. Rothschild believes in the transformative power of clothing. “For me, it’s so much more about the way you…

It’s been a big fashion month week for the Spanish-born designer Paula Canovas del Vas. The 2022 Vogue Fashion Fund Spain winner packed up her collection in her London studio, loaded it onto a truck along with all of her other possessions,…

Juntae Kim, South Korea, genderless collections Kim started his eponymous brand last year, motivated by his desire to build genderless collections inspired by historical costume. Elizabethan and Jacobean courtly dress is a particular…

AVAVAV, fall 2023 ready-to-wear Photo: Federico Pompei, @petroli0 / courtesy of AVAVAVDays prior to a show in Milan, the brand page featured a video of a creative director (Karlsson) wearing a “Cash Cow” hoodie with a disguised voice…

There was plenty of latex and bondage on Tuesday evening when Luis De Javier held his first New York show at the iconic Angel Orensanz Foundation—a show space famous for hosting Alexander McQueen’s New York debut and Zac Posen’s first show.…

There was mayhem in Times Square when Elizabeth Hilfiger (daughter of Tommy) had her second show in New York City. With it came a list of influential people in the industry that only a Hilfiger could bring, including one of streetwear’s…

Not even a marketing guru could have masterminded the viral moment VAIN, a Finnish brand, achieved last November with a collection made from workwear collected from regional McDonald’s locations, and presented at a Helsinki branch of the…

By all accounts Berlin is where the action is in Europe. One of the people contributing to the city’s creative energy is Ottolinger alum Sia Arnika. With her fifth collection for spring 2023, Arnika, a Dane born on the island of Mors, aka…

Heliot Emil’s Victor and Julius Juul didn’t just build on the momentum of being named finalists for the ANDAM Grand Prize this year, they pulled out all the stops. “I think we’re being very ambitious with what we have to do compared to our…