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Images made to last
Campaigns still launch, September issues still arrive and magazine covers can still ignite a conversation. But fashion photography now enters a visual culture with fewer hierarchies, more images and almost no guarantee that the one intended to matter most will be the one we remember. Fashion has not lost its need for powerful images. If…
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Hunting past seasons
Runway seasons, creative directors, provenance and forgotten collections are becoming part of the way people shop. As access to fashion history expands, the archive is no longer reserved for museums, houses and specialists. A vintage designer label once told a shopper most of what they needed to know. Today, it may only be the beginning.…
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Fashion’s summer intermission
Between the final couture show and September’s crowded fashion calendar, the industry appears to slow down. But fashion’s summer pause has become less an absence of activity than a change in where that activity takes place. By mid-July, fashion begins to look unusually quiet. The sequence that started with resort collections and continued through Pitti…
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Sustainability, past the buzzword
Fashion talks about sustainability differently than it did five years ago. The promises have become quieter, the vocabulary more cautious and the easy solutions harder to defend. Behind that change in tone, however, the industry’s environmental reckoning is becoming more concrete. There was a period when sustainability seemed capable of becoming a fashion trend in…
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Who gets to be a fashion capital now?
Paris, Milan, London and New York still command the international calendar. But Florence, Copenhagen, Seoul, Tokyo and Rome suggest that fashion influence no longer depends on a single model of what a capital should be. For much of the modern fashion industry, the map has appeared remarkably stable. New York opens the international womenswear circuit,…
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Paris high jewellery, July 2026
From the human hand at Boucheron to Chaumet’s sensory botany and Messika’s exceptional blue diamond, the July 2026 high jewellery collections transformed memory, matter and movement into objects that may never exist twice. A gemstone can hold light for an instant, while a jewel can hold a gesture for generations. In Paris this July, those…