This May, Fashion Art Toronto marks two decades with its most expansive programming to date—a full month of runway shows, site-specific installations, boutique collaborations, and citywide pop-ups.
FASHION & BEAUTY
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.
Don’t Go, Woman Creative Director!
On March 13, Donatella Versace announced her departure from her creative director role at Italian luxury maison Versace via Instagram post, and all hell ensued.
Demna Takes Over Gucci: Can His Balenciaga Strategy Revive Sales?
In a move that has left the fashion industry reeling, Demna Gvasalia has been named the new creative director of Gucci, marking the end of his nearly decade-long tenure at Balenciaga.
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.
LIVE: The Aesthetics of Digital Intimacy
In an era oversaturated with digital imagery, curation has become its own form of performance. LIVE explores this paradox—where spontaneity and construction collide, dissolving the boundaries between authenticity and artifice.
“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.
Det Blev Sent FW25 is Sartorial Psychoanalysis
Beyond the usual fashion experiment in deconstruction, Det Blev Sent’s Fall/Winter 2025 lineup, takes an almost scientific approach to its sartorial mission.
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.