The colour of ONGNA’s Destroyer Jeans began with a stone Angana Ananya found beside Kyoto’s Kamo River. She had already decided on the silhouette, but the stone’s muted, washed-out surface gave the design its tonal direction.
FASHION & BEAUTY
Process Visual’s X Refuses Resolution
Fashion depends, to some degree, on the disappearance of its own labour. By the time a garment is presented as finished, the traces through which it was cut, fitted and assembled have usually been removed.
Nii Hai Is Growing Up With Its Girls
There is a particular problem that confronts any independent fashion label fortunate enough to survive its emergence: how to grow without becoming generic.
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.
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.
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.
Inside RCHIVE and the Rise of Toronto’s Own Fashion Week
For years, Toronto fashion has existed in a strange contradiction. The city possesses an enormous concentration of creative talent, stylists, photographers, designers, musicians, and image-makers, yet its infrastructure has often lagged behind its ambition.
ISECAI’s “Metamorphosis” Rejects Perfection in Favour of Process
In a fashion landscape increasingly defined by polish, completion, and algorithmic refinement, Toronto-based ISECAI’s latest presentation proposes something far less resolved.
Inside Toronto’s Own Fashion Week SS26: Building the Infrastructure of a Fashion City
For decades, Toronto’s fashion scene has occupied an uneasy position within the global industry. The city produces a steady stream of designers, stylists, and photographers, yet its infrastructure has historically lagged behind the scale of its creative talent.
Matières Fécales FW26 — The One Percent
Paris Fashion Week is no stranger to spectacle, but few shows this season felt as ideologically pointed as Matières Fécales’ Fall/Winter 2026 presentation, The One Percent.