Some artists spend their lives mythologized by others. Few take the risk of narrating their story themselves. Simon Raymonde has always been the quiet engine behind some of the most influential sounds of the late twentieth century, shaping entire textures of dream pop through his work with Cocteau Twins and shepherding new voices into the world as the founder of Bella Union.
With “ABSOLUTE,” Ukrainian designer Irina Dzhus transforms trauma into a stark, sculptural language. The project began during a period when Dzhus, having fled war and survived family abuse, entered what seemed like a safe chapter that quickly unraveled.
Emerging from the convergence of dance, performance, and experimental pop, Rodney Chrome has quickly become one of the most exciting multi-hyphenate voices reshaping the contours of contemporary music.
There is a particular kind of jacket you see everywhere right now. On the metro, at the office, in line at the café: taped seams, matte shell, bungee cords cinched just enough to signal you know the difference between “water-resistant” and “20K waterproof.”
For Spring–Summer 2026, MRKNTN returns with SAINT-MAURICE, a collection rooted in the mythology, labour, and memory embedded along the Québec river of the same name.
Late afternoon light stripes the concrete at Lignes De Fuite studios on a rather hot late September afternoon. Pattern paper curls on a cutting table; a hem is pinned and unpinned; someone laughs because the zipper refuses to obey.
Alemeda is learning to let go of being right. “I used to think I knew everything,” she admits, “Turns out I really didn’t.”
There’s a new strain of fashion fantasy taking shape in New York, one that trades the sterile futurism of the last decade for something more emotional, more theatrical, more human.
Semaine de la Mode Montréal FW25 unfolded less like a week of runways than a palimpsest, layers of history, material memory, and cultural contradiction inscribed into each collection.
At Place Vendôme this past week, Matières Fécales unveiled Hannah—their sophomore Paris Fashion Week collection, and a love letter to co-founder Hannah Rose Dalton.