At the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art arrives at a moment when fashion is increasingly expected to justify its place within culture. More than a retrospective of one of the twentieth century’s most unconventional designers,…
Milan Men’s Fashion Week rarely revolves around a single trend. While other fashion capitals often produce one dominant silhouette or aesthetic that comes to define the season, Milan tends to reveal something less immediate but ultimately more revealing. Spring/Summer 2027…
Among the many interpretations of contemporary tailoring presented at Milan Fashion Week Men’s, Thom Browne once again occupied a category of his own. While much of the season leaned towards softer silhouettes, understated luxury and commercially driven refinement, Browne approached…
Among the more demonstrative collections of Milan Fashion Week Men’s, Setchu stood apart through restraint. Rather than relying on spectacle or recognisable branding, Satoshi Kuwata continued to build his label around the intelligence of construction, presenting clothes whose complexity revealed…
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…
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…
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 In 2026, that distinction feels increasingly outdated.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…
Fashion has always been shaped by contradiction. It celebrates originality while relying on heritage, champions craftsmanship while operating on a global scale, and encourages individuality even as trends spread at unprecedented speed. Those tensions are not new. What has changed…
Luxury fashion has always been built around the identity of its houses. Today, however, much of the industry’s attention has shifted towards the people leading them. A creative director is no longer responsible solely for designing collections. Increasingly, they shape…
Fashion felt different in the first months of 2026, though not because one silhouette or colour suddenly took control of the season. The change was harder to isolate. It appeared in the weight of fabrics, the pace of presentations and…
