fashion

Red Kingdoms and Returning Worlds: Christian Louboutin Men’s Spring/Summer 2027

In a landscape of scarlet tonality and sculpted spectacle, the Christian Louboutin Men’s Spring/Summer 2027 presentation—part of the Paris Fashion…

OBJECTS THAT THINK BACK

Alama Studio and the Cultural Reprogramming of Fitness There is a quiet shift happening in how we stage physical effort.…

Three Days in Copenhagen: Notes on Design, City, and the Quiet Performance of Things

There is a particular kind of attention that design asks of us. Not the sharp, acquisitive attention of shopping, nor…

Beyond the Object: What Completedworks Understands About Community

Luxury has become remarkably good at borrowing the language of belonging. Brands speak of communities, conversations and shared values, yet…

Luxury, Without the Tantrum

Roberto Forte dei Marmi and Giorgio Armani Mare prove that the most desirable places are often the least interested in…

Chanel’s Coco Game: When Luxury Decides to Play

By any conventional measure, Chanel’s latest haute horlogerie collection should not work. Luxury is supposed to be serious. Swiss watchmaking,…

THE SHOE AS AN ACT OF FICTION

Herbert Levine and the invention of wearable illusion There are brands that make shoes, and there are brands that remake…

Beauty and the Bag: Obsession, Elevated

In its latest campaign, Gucci abandons the language of traditional luxury advertising in favor of something far more visceral: desire,…

Yohji Yamamoto SS26: A Bittersweet Symphony of Style and Conscience

Yohji Yamamoto has always inhabited a space between the avant-garde and the profoundly human, and his Spring/Summer 2026 collection is…

Marc Jacobs in the Cinematic Contours of Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola’s Marc by Sofia, released by A24, isn’t your typical fashion documentary. It doesn’t trace a designer’s life in…