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CULTURE
Girls to the Front: Emerson Isa’s Riot Grrrl-Infused Launch
On May 17, the Lower East Side in Manhattan pulsed with femme-laced grit as Emerson Isa launched her debut collection, Girls to the Front, with an event at Pianos, a storied venue on Ludlow Street.
1664 Fashion Week: The Iconic Accessories Showcase
The 1664 Iconic Accessories Showcase, presented during Fashion Art Toronto this month, brings together three of Canada’s most promising emerging designers for a singular runway event curated by Montreal’s influential fashion incubator Lignes de Fuite.
Samantha Sutcliffe’s Haunted America
In her latest project, the decade-spanning photo series titled Broken Mirror, New York-based visual artist Samantha Sutcliffe peers through her camera into the black mirror of American life.
To the Floor: Sam Besca’s Dichotomy of Dance
New York native and director Sam Besca’s To the Floor, a short film written by Electra Artemis, unearths the menacingly cannibalistic femininity cultivated beneath the glitzy norms of European ballroom dance tradition.
Dupe or Twin: The AI Fashion Model Creeps In
It seems we were expected to clap and cheer and act impressed by the fact that in a meeting of the editorial staff at Business of Fashion (BoF), only a “slight majority” correctly guessed which image of model Mathilda Gvarliani, provided by the Swedish multinational retailer H&M, was a photograph and which was generated by artificial intelligence.
‘Kissy Face’: Jake Santos on the Blur of Intimacy
Titled Kissy Face, Toronto-based artist Jake Santos’ new solo exhibition, showing at Blouin Division until early May, presents a series of miniature, close-up portraits rendered on wood panels.
Demna Takes Over Gucci: Can His Balenciaga Strategy Revive Sales?
Beauty and War in Chloe Majenta’s “Enantiodromia”
“I think I was really craving something a little bit more like banging my head against a wall without me actually doing it,” Chloe Majenta tells me.
Matières Fécales’ Fearless Paris Fashion Week Debut
Paris has long been a crucible for fashion’s most subversive auteurs, yet few debuts have felt as seismic, as wholly transgressive, as the arrival of Matières Fécales onto the hallowed runways of Fashion Week.