This May, Fashion Art Toronto marks two decades with its most expansive programming to date—a full month of runway shows, site-specific installations, boutique collaborations, and citywide pop-ups.
Cody Rooney
Enter the Void
The promise of visibility, once associated with recognition, agency, even liberation, now arrives heavily mediated. To appear today is to be parsed: through lenses, platforms, and systems that do not look so much as scan.
The Cult of bbno$
“I’m a weirdo. I’m a nerd.” bbno$ says this without a trace of irony—just quiet certainty. At this point in his career, that self-definition isn’t a revelation; it’s a flex.
Demna Takes Over Gucci: Can His Balenciaga Strategy Revive Sales?
Matières Fécales’ Fearless Paris Fashion Week Debut
Paris has long been a crucible for fashion’s most subversive auteurs, yet few debuts have felt as seismic, as wholly transgressive, as the arrival of Matières Fécales onto the hallowed runways of Fashion Week.
LIVE: The Aesthetics of Digital Intimacy
In an era oversaturated with digital imagery, curation has become its own form of performance. LIVE explores this paradox—where spontaneity and construction collide, dissolving the boundaries between authenticity and artifice.
Andy + Jialin
Toronto-based fashion and beauty photographer Jamie Brockie captures the elegance of structure and the artistry of form in ANDY + JIALIN.
Maryze’s Versed is a Sleazy, Slinky, Queer Club Banger
After years of cultural stagnation, hedonism one could argue, is back: brat summer ignited a fire, The Dare ruled 2024, and indie sleaze—once the grimy, unbothered predecessor to the hyper-curated Instagram era—is resurging with a vengeance.
“Beauty Is Also Gore”: Venus Superstar on the Violence of Aesthetics
Venus Superstar moves within a space where beauty and horror coalesce, entangle, shift, and dissolve into one another. The performer, part drag queen, part performance artist, part auteur” hailing from the San Francisco underground, is the type of queer creative whose work is as much passion as it is intrinsic to their very being.
Viva Per Sempre: Valente’s NYFW Ode to Family
Memory is both a potent artistic and cultural catalyst. Memory as archive, memory as tradition, memory as meaning-making, and as emotional processing; translated into the sartorial it can represent a second skin of sorts, an embodiment of cultural heritage, and an embodied manifestation of self-hood and lineage.