Away from the established runway calendar, Milan Fashion Week offers another perspective on contemporary design. The September 2026 edition of WHITE Milano brought together independent labels, international designers and emerging creative businesses whose work rarely receives the attention reserved for…
For Spring/Summer 2027, Maximilian Davis turns to the structured wardrobes of the 1940s, introducing unexpected materials and a distinctly contemporary sensuality. His work at Ferragamo reveals an interpretation of Italian elegance built on precise proportions, historical curiosity and an intimate…
For their first Moschino collection, Simone Rizzo and Loris Messina brought hundreds of ordinary people onto a Milanese rooftop, sending them against the flow of the runway. Their Spring/Summer 2027 debut offered a different interpretation of the house’s irreverent heritage,…
For its fifth edition, Vogue World arrived in Milan with an ambitious tribute to Italian craftsmanship and the people behind fashion. Staged beneath the glass vaults of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the event brought together historic fashion houses, international…
From the carefully composed portraits of the Belle Époque to the provocative imagery of the late twentieth century, fashion photography has shaped far more than the way clothing is presented. At the Textile Museum St. Gallen, Mise en Scène explores…
In 1986, six young Belgian designers travelled to London with their individual collections and returned with an identity that would follow them for the rest of their careers. Four decades later, a major exhibition in Antwerp revisits their extraordinary emergence,…
Gianni Versace had a particular talent for bringing together things that were not necessarily expected to coexist. Greek antiquity appeared alongside pop imagery, Baroque ornament found its way onto silk shirts and metallic fabrics were worked into dresses that moved…
Fashion’s most coveted seats have become a meeting point for celebrity culture, digital influence and global fandom. As brands rethink who deserves a place beside the runway, the front row is revealing a broader change in how fashion builds visibility,…
Queen Sirikit’s wardrobe brought Thai silk, historic forms and Paris couture into the visual language of twentieth-century diplomacy. La Mode en Majesté looks beyond royal style to a period in which clothing became closely involved in how modern Thailand represented…
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…
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…
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.…
