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The photographer who builds worlds from cardboard and bedsheets on the brief he ignored, and putting Rihanna inside a set held together by hand.
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The photographer behind fashion’s most surreal shoots on inventing an alter ego, and chasing teen stardom before he ever picked up a camera.
The woman who kept Tibi independent since 1997 on inventing her own design philosophy, and rearranging people in her mind like a Lego Man.
Paris photographer Ludovic Balay on soft light, the worst advice he ever got, and finding peace between John Pawson and the Cocteau Twins.
The design duo behind EDITION, W Hotels, and Aman on queer history, never specializing, and why their forever inspo is each other.
Fog is the only trend left, and it won’t lift.
Designers are inflating the silhouette right as the culture obsesses over shrinking it.
Mermaidcore returns as high fashion, pricing nostalgia at $1,580 a scale.
Fashion’s strangest shoe got copied into oblivion, and now it just means you’re online.
Bling is creeping onto every surface, from teeth to mug handles to toe rings, and the maximalist glint is calling time on millennial grey.
Fashion is selling snow to a sweltering summer, and the ski-lodge fantasy has gone fully sincere.
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