There is a particular problem that confronts any independent fashion label fortunate enough to survive its emergence: how to grow without becoming generic.
Cody Rooney
Rare DM Wants More Than Your Attention
There is a peculiar kind of movement that belongs only to the night. It reveals itself in headlights cutting through rain-soaked streets, in trains rattling beneath sleeping cities, in bodies slipping between dance floors and sidewalks long after midnight.
FACE VALUE: LORENA BAY / gata.ilusion
Beauty has never been a neutral category. It functions instead as a shifting system of recognition, produced through environments, cultural repetition, and the increasingly accelerated feedback loops of visibility.
Yabu Pushelberg Explores Queer History and HIV Activism in Don’t Stop. Stand Up!
Design is often asked to imagine the future. Rarely is it asked to remember. This Pride Month, Yabu Pushelberg is transforming its Tribeca studio into something altogether different.
Vagabond Shoemakers Softens the Shoe for Pre A/W 26
There’s a noticeable shift happening in accessories. After seasons dominated by sharp geometry and rigid silhouettes, footwear is beginning to relax.
FACE VALUE: ANGELINA MASICH
Beauty has never been more visible, nor more mediated. Between algorithmically curated feeds, AI-generated imagery, cosmetic technologies, looksmaxxing, and an endless stream of trend cycles, contemporary beauty increasingly exists within a landscape of optimization.
Claude’s World
While driving along the highways that branch out of Toronto’s downtown, one witnesses a bewildering contrast of forces; nestled in rolling hills of wheat lie mammoth-sized shipping and logistic hubs.
Sara Cwynar’s ‘Baby Blue Benzo Beta’ at MOCA Toronto
Contemporary image culture is often described through excess, whether through Guy Debord’s conception of the spectacle, Jean Baudrillard’s simulacra, or contemporary discourse surrounding the endless recursive circulation of algorithmic media.
MRKNTN Reimagines SAINT-MAURICE Through a Gothic Dystopia
Last September, Montréal-based label MRKNTN unveiled SAINT-MAURICE, a collection rooted in the textures, silhouettes, and cultural mythology of Québec’s working-class identity.
Fashion Art Toronto’s SS26 Season Turns the City Into a Runway
Contemporary fashion weeks no longer function solely as industry-facing runway calendars. Increasingly, they operate as temporary cultural ecosystems: part nightlife circuit, part installation program, part retail environment, part performance space, part content machine.