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John Galliano just signed a two-year deal with Zara, where the luxury fashion auteur is set to “re-author” their archives. Zac Posen’s GapStudio had two looks on the Oscars red carpet, and fashion royalty Clare Waight Keller is at Uniqlo. More than ever, it’s clear that high fashion is becoming obsessed with the mall.

BTS returned from mandatory military service and played their first concert in nearly four years at Gyeongbokgung Palace. Their upcoming Arirang album has over 4 million pre-orders, and their 34-city tour starts next month. Leaving a rabid fanbase for the army might feel unprecedented in pop, but Elvis did it first.

Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15, closing the book on an $80 billion experiment in virtual living. The goal was an immersive second life that would make Zoom calls feel primitive, but in reality it was just a bunch of floating torsos. Not even legs could save them.

Vinyl LP sales topped $1 billion in 2025 for the first time since 1983, marking 19 straight years of growth. Right on cue, Aimé Leon Dore released a limited-edition Technics SL-1200 in Mulberry Green — proof that the format has fully crossed over from crate-digger hobby to lifestyle object.

The New Museum reopens this week with a new OMA-designed expansion — Rem Koolhaas’s first public building in New York, nearly five decades in the making. The inaugural show, “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” asks what it means to be human in the age of algorithms.

Everyone’s debating “dinergoth,” a new term attempting to describe the prevalence of alt aesthetics — hair dye, furry cat ears, septum piercings, anime merch — among Discord-native young folks in small towns. Some say these kids have always existed, while others think it’s time to pencil it into the goth charts.