The Fashion Cult

The Ukrainian-born designer on listening to the material, fringing 150 zippers by hand, and why texture is a form of freedom.

Anna Sui's Spring/Summer 2027 showing took place at The National Arts Club in Gramercy Park. The collection, titled "Wonderment," was inspired by the fantasy paintings of Howard Gardiner Cushing, which Sui discovered by chance in the background of a 1970s Vogue photograph by Richard Avedon. Textile usage included eyelet, hand crochet, lace, sheer...

Plaid, stripes, collared polos, dalmatian and bambi print, teal, victorian shirts, fringe, and eccentric jewelry. Here is what's trending this fall season on everyone's feed, where each trend came from, and how to wear them.

There is no separating Nia Thomas the woman from Nia Thomas the label. That is not a branding decision. It is the whole point. She launched her label in 2018, barely a year out of the Fashion Institute of Technology, and in the seasons since it has become shorthand for a particular kind of luxury: sensual hand-crochet, natural fibers, garments...

The idea that we wear clothing on our bodies every single day and assume it has no effect on us feels almost absurd. Like a fruit with a decaying shell pretending the exterior does not matter. Fashion has always been treated as visual, but what if fabric itself carries a frequency beyond aesthetics? What if the materials touching our skin...

The Amsterdam-born designer on collage as a design method, keeping craft alive, and the bride who literally ran away.

In May two things are certain Met Gala Monday and Mothers day. Recognized as THE fashion event of the year, the notorious event started off as nothing more than a 50$ dinner hosted in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel founded in 1948 by fashion publicist, Eleanor Lambert, the same woman who pioneered New York Fashion Week. With the simple purpose...

Kiminte Kimhēkim marks a decade of KIMHĒKIM not with nostalgia, but with movement. Enter the Spectrum unfolds like a gallery load-in day, where art crates travel from Seoul to Paris and garments emerge as if they are being revealed for the first time. The collection exists in transition, moving through color, texture, and emotion like a spectrum of...