Beyond the usual fashion experiment in deconstruction, Det Blev Sent’s Fall/Winter 2025 lineup, takes an almost scientific approach to its sartorial mission.
FASHION & BEAUTY
“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.
Luar FW25 El Pato Is a Queer Reckoning
Raul Lopez’s Fall 2025 collection for Luar, El Pato, emerges as both a personal manifesto and a cultural reclamation, steeped in the designer’s unique narrative as a Dominican-American artist growing up amidst New York’s turbulent streets.
Tyler McGillivary’s “Date Night” Is an Ode to New York City Glamour
There is something sacred about the ritual of getting dressed for the night—a transformation, an invocation, a declaration of intent. In her Fall/Winter ’25 debut, Tyler McGillivary captured this alchemy with Date Night, a collection that distilled the thrill of nocturnal glamour into 30 looks, each a love letter to artifice, desire, and the reckless optimism of a city that never stops moving.
Selling Sexy: The Secrets Within Victoria’s Empire
“There are no paved roads here to follow. There is no road map.” (p. 151) This quote from Grace Nichols, the former chief executive of the Victoria’s Secret stores division, sums up the revelations shared by Lauren Sherman and Chantal Fernandez in Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon.
Adhere To Studios: Alexandra Dean’s Outerwear Revolution
It is always a pleasure to watch someone chase a dream, harness it, and wrestle it to fruition. For Vancouver-based designer Alexandra Dean, the dream was to start her own outerwear brand.
Rick Owens FW25: Dark, Yet Deliciously Delightful
It’s hard to imagine how romanticism could succeed in a place like a factory or coal mine. Most of what we know of them are gruelling, dehumanizing labour, a profound lack of inspiration, a suffering working class, and a landscape more suited for machines than men.
Immaterial Girls: Sophie, Murakami, and the Strange Spectacle of Louis Vuitton
The cherry on top of the Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami ad campaign that debuted earlier this month is undoubtedly the odd soundtrack choice of “Immaterial,” the hyper-pop anthem by the late great Sophie.
State of Dust
An abandoned laboratory in Valencia becomes the stage for State of Dust, an exploration of identity, place, and liminality. Crumbling walls, fractured glass, and the detritus of another time form the backdrop for a narrative of stoic resilience.