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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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Alaïa, African influences
At the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa in Paris, a new exhibition traces the presence of Africa across decades of the couturier’s work, revealing an influence carried through childhood memories, materials, colour and some of his most recognisable experiments with the body. Azzedine Alaïa made his career in Paris, but part of his visual language had been…
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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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Ralph Lauren, American codes in Milan
Ralph Lauren’s Spring/Summer 2027 presentation in Milan was not an attempt to reinvent the brand. Instead, it showed how one of American fashion’s most established names continues to adapt its visual language while remaining unmistakably itself. Presented on June 19 at the brand’s Milan headquarters, the show brought together Purple Label and Polo Ralph Lauren…
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Collab currency
For much of fashion’s history, collaborations promised interruption. Two names that would not normally occupy the same space appeared together, briefly unsettling the boundaries between luxury and mass retail, fashion and art, sport and couture, or the established and the unexpected. Their impact came from rarity as much as creativity. The encounter felt improbable enough…
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Why Milan Design week matters to fashion in 2026
For much of its history, Milan Design Week occupied a space adjacent to fashion. Luxury houses participated, but the event remained largely associated with furniture, interiors and industrial design. In 2026, that distinction feels increasingly outdated. Across Milan, fashion brands approached Design Week with the same level of ambition they reserve for runway seasons, turning…