Author: Kylie Dang
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Inside Robert Wun’s Spring 2026 Couture Collection at the Lido
The Spring/Summer 2026 haute couture season has been a study in extremes—from the featherlight chiffon tailoring of Chanel to a monumental, hand-embroidered bridal look by Robert Wun weighing nearly 92 pounds and encrusted with approximately three million glass beads. If some designers pursued airiness and restraint, Wun chose gravity—both literal and metaphorical. Staged at the Read more
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Soft Silhouettes, Lasting Stories: Sézane x Sea NY
When Sea New York launched in 2006, fashion was standing on the brink of seismic digital change. Social media was in its infancy, e-commerce was just finding its footing, and the idea of building a brand through community rather than speed was still nascent. Seven years later and an ocean away, Sézane was founded in Read more
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Uma Wang Fall/Winter 2026 Menswear: Shanghai, Between Memory and Modernity
For Fall/Winter 2026, Uma Wang turns to 1930s Shanghai—a moment when the city stood at the crossroads of East and West—as both historical reference and emotional landscape. It was an era shaped by cultural elites who embraced Western dress codes while remaining deeply rooted in Chinese tradition, and Wang channels that hybrid identity into a Read more
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Venice After Dusk: Inside Blumarine Pre-Fall 2026
For Pre-Fall 2026, David Koma turned to Venice—not the sunlit city of postcards, but the hushed, seductive Venice that emerges after dark. Unveiled through a cinematic lookbook, Venetian Nights channels the city’s nocturnal stillness and veiled sensuality, weaving them into Blumarine’s evolving language of dark romanticism. The result is a collection that feels both atmospheric Read more
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Adrien Brody Appointed Lacoste Global Eyewear Brand Ambassador
Adrien Brody has officially been named global eyewear ambassador for Lacoste, marking a significant return to the French fashion house fourteen years after their first collaboration. The two-time Academy Award winner previously fronted Lacoste’s Unconventional Chic campaign in 2012, a partnership that laid the foundation for a long-standing relationship between the actor and the brand. Read more
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Golden Globes 2026 After-Party Looks: Where Stars Truly Let Loose
If the Golden Globes red carpet is about legacy and spectacle, the after-parties are where personal style takes over. Free from the weight of televised formality, celebrities leaned into sexier silhouettes, playful reinterpretations, and fashion that felt more intimate—and more revealing of their true aesthetic. From sheer subversion to high-octane glamour, these were the after-party Read more
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Chanel Takes the Underground: Matthieu Blazy’s New York Vision Signals a New Era
For his first Métiers d’art collection at Chanel, Matthieu Blazy didn’t choose a palace, a museum, or a postcard-perfect landmark. Instead, he took the house underground — to a disused New York subway platform — and transformed one of the city’s most ordinary spaces into a stage for extraordinary craft. The result was not just Read more
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Beyond Plumage: Stella McCartney’s Plant-Based Answer to Fashion’s Feather Problem
Feathers have long been shorthand for extravagance in fashion — light, dramatic and irresistibly eye-catching. Yet the fantasy they sell often masks a troubling reality. At Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2026, Stella McCartney challenged that contradiction head-on, unveiling a new plant-based material designed to replicate the allure of feathers without relying on birds at all. Read more
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Etro Pre-Fall 2026: When Heritage Becomes a Place You Can Live In
Etro’s Pre-Fall 2026 collection at Milan Fashion Week reaffirms what the house has always understood better than most: that textiles are not simply materials, but vessels of culture, memory, and movement. Under Marco De Vincenzo, Etro’s storied codes are neither frozen nor fetishized. Instead, they are treated as living matter—flexible enough to absorb new geographies, Read more
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Erdem Pre-Fall 2026: Romance, Rebellion, and One of 2026’s Strongest Ready-to-Wear Statements
For Pre-Fall 2026, Erdem Moralioglu turns to a muse who quietly but radically unsettles the refined femininity his house is best known for. Enter Maud Wagner — America’s first documented female tattoo artist, a Belle Époque circus aerialist who rejected domesticity, corsetry, and silence in favor of self-authorship. Her body, inked from neck to ankle, Read more