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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s a distinct kind of silence in the parts of a city not meant to be seen. The loading dock behind a shuttered shop.
Tyler McGillivary is diving into new waters, literally. The Brooklyn-based designer known for sculptural whimsy and surrealist nostalgia has just unveiled her first swimwear collection, and it’s as dreamy, referential, and emotionally intuitive as we’d expect.
For his second seasonal capsule with Canada Goose, Creative Director Haider Ackermann deepens his exploration of the brand’s heritage through Snow Goose, the design-forward sublabel that reimagines performance wear through the language of avant-garde utility.