At Mile 44 in Los Angeles this pas week, VALENTE unveiled its FW25 collection Viva Per Sempre in a fashion film premiere and pre-sale experience that blurred the lines between cinema, memory, and design.
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Updates on Textile Repurposing at TMU: Fashion Reconstruction & Sustainable Initiatives
The Branded Transition Material Project (BMTP) began in 2022 in response to Ryerson’s transformation into Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). Thanks to the efforts of Indigenous leadership, the Standing Strong Task Force and allies across campus, the campus has been going through a massive overhaul and revival.
FINE CHAOS SS26: POST MORT3M
Marc C. Møllerskov has long mined dystopian subcultures for their capacity to reframe survival as style, yet POST MORT3M marked a shift from his earlier, more chaotic presentations toward something tighter in its narrative arc and more deliberate in its construction.
Crude Semiotics: Absurdity as Cultural Exhaust
There comes a point in any saturated system wherein meaning no longer accumulates. It combusts. Contemporary culture functions less like a cogent symbolic order and more like a refinery under pressure, endlessly processing images, aesthetics, affect, and identity into liquid form.
LM Chabot’s The Cult Turns Beauty Rituals Into a Fever Dream
Self-care carries with it a particular tension: the quiet promise of repair and the creeping sense of ritual. The Cult, the new short film from Montreal-based directing duo LM Chabot, sits entirely inside that space.
My Genes Are Blue: How American Eagle and Dunkin’ Are Selling Whiteness
Something uncanny has procured itself in the cultural consciousness of American media in the past week, a tonal shift that, although unsurprising given the current political climate, feels jarringly regressive and reactionary; the tipping point, undoubtedly, being American Eagle’s latest campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney as the white all-American temptress clad in denim.
Dream Garden Elegance: 5 Surrealist Pieces to Transform Your Wardrobe
This season, fashion is leaning into the fantastical. Designers are drawing from nature, animation, and craft to create pieces that feel alive, wearable surrealist art that blooms off the body.
AFLOAT
A snag in the season’s grip, cool points of precipitation on glassy skin, glistening like blips of light in the distance that take us where we want to go.
JW Anderson Rebrands as a Living Cabinet of Curiosities
Jonathan Anderson does not rest. Fresh off his Dior debut in Paris, he is turning his attention back to JW Anderson with a rebrand that feels like a quiet yet decisive statement on what fashion can be.
Tidal Memory: GIGI STUDIOS Introduces Sediments
Barcelona’s GIGI STUDIOS returns this summer with Sediments, a capsule collection that translates the quiet persistence of water into three understated silhouettes: ABYSS, ETHEREA, and SHIMMER.