In 1982, in the print edition of this magazine, Giorgio Armani spoke about his relationship with leather. Today, less than a year after his passing, the brand launches Armani/Archivio. Thirteen looks that…
Allbirds was founded in 2016 as a shoe manufacturer and it was explicitly based on a supergreen business plan. Ten years later, the brand states that it has reached an agreement to…
The green facade of a certain approach to fashion is crumbling down. Shein, the widely discussed colossus of the most aggressive kind of fast fashion, acquires Everlane, known as a symbol of…
There are some handbags designs that have become iconic that weren’t originally designed for the runway, but for very different and specific purposes. Their story has changed over time, simultaneously with the…
We attended the European Designer Fashion Summit (14–15 April) in Barcelona, where the European fashion industry discussed desire, sustainability and competition from fast fashion. Between AI, craftsmanship to be defended and the…
Caught between fast fashion and brain drain, ready-to-wear is going through its most precarious period. The collaboration between Galliano and Zara has cemented a shift in power that drains creativity, value and…
On the fringes of official Europe, a less glamorous and more structural fashion scene is emerging. Barcelona, Copenhagen and Berlin are attempting to transform their peripheral status into a vision and processes…
Matthieu Blazy makes his debut at Chanel with a series of “battered, crushed and beloved” bags. Fashion shifts the attention towards creative solutions that give actual value to concepts such as durability…
Como Football, an Indonesian sports club that has risen to the top of Italy’s Serie A soccer league, is currently redefining the norms of a style that goes beyond the football pitch,…
Many of the most iconic shoes in the history of footwear weren’t designed just for their beautiful look, but for being functional; for working, for the military, for being on a boat,…