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.
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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.
Rare DM Wants More Than Your Attention
There is a peculiar kind of movement that belongs only to the night. It reveals itself in headlights cutting through rain-soaked streets, in trains rattling beneath sleeping cities, in bodies slipping between dance floors and sidewalks long after midnight.
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.
Claude’s World
While driving along the highways that branch out of Toronto’s downtown, one witnesses a bewildering contrast of forces; nestled in rolling hills of wheat lie mammoth-sized shipping and logistic hubs.
MRKNTN Reimagines SAINT-MAURICE Through a Gothic Dystopia
Last September, Montréal-based label MRKNTN unveiled SAINT-MAURICE, a collection rooted in the textures, silhouettes, and cultural mythology of Québec’s working-class identity.
KALIKA REDEFINES “SEXY” ON HER OWN TERMS
Kalika didn’t build her career by playing it safe. Born Mia Kalika Rosello, the French artist first appeared publicly on Nouvelle Star before stepping away from that trajectory entirely.
VALMORA: Craft, Fluidity, and the Quiet Renaissance of Canadian Fashion
Inside a former garment factory in Montreal’s Chabanel district, Rebecca-Jo Dunham-Baruchel sits across from Matteo Valmora, creative director of Montreal-based label Valmora, and names something that feels immediately true.
Liminul Holiday Gift Guide 2025
Holiday gifting always seems easier in theory. In practice, most of us end up circling the same familiar ideas, hoping they’ll feel personal enough to land.