All in backstage
Going backstage at Mimi Wade’s first runway show, Bee Beardsworth captures the hysterical glamour infecting East London, and interviews the bewitching designer about her enthralling Harley Quinn inspired collection, her love of cinema, and being her own muse.
Shining through New York fashion week, designer Amanda Mehl displayed her AMEHL FW20 collection on February 9th in the diamond district. Presenting upcycled avant-garde vintage pieces the show radiated retro-ness and royalty.
Steamy skin, wet hair, smooth surfaces covered in mist: the act of cleaning oneself in water as an ancestral self-care ritual. Henrik Vibskov reinterprets bathing and the privacy of the bathroom for his AW20 collection.
Andrea Crews speaks of eco-philosophy, plasticity and emotional connections. Presented as a multiform medium, clothing becomes a method to explore the complexity of engaging with the world and the self among the mutable truths that connote our reality.
Inspired by dream-induced Fellinian delirium, Magliano’s AW20 dreamscape features the Mediterranean Gothic. Magliano, the quintessential Italian brand established by designer Luca Magliano fragments time and conjures visions and night experiences in his latest AW20 show.
Danish fashion house Han Kjøbenhavn showcased its first ever AW20 collection in Milano entering a bravado of darkness and endless spectacle set by dreary Danish winter landscapes. Lifting inspiration from the art of storytelling, the audience is met with Han Kjøbenhavn’s raw, gritty worldscape.
The future too often infers recollecting the past and time spent since, and Founder and Designer of 8ON8, Li Gong, transports Chinese contemporary youth and reimagines the young body’s collision with time.
Debuting his first collection in 2010 at the Mercedes-Benz Kiev Fashion Week, Ukrainian designer Anton Belinskiy’s style is focused around avant-garde, yet wearable clothing, highlighting women and their graceful allure.
Recently graduating from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and dressing mainstream celebrities such as Ariana Grande and Riko Nasty, “Sip My Ocean” wishes to conceptualize an idea known to many but understood by few.
“Even though they were just illusions, my fear was real back then.”
“Evolve now or die later” — English fashion designer Phoebe English leads the way with sustainable fashion in her meticulously-sourced, gender-inclusive SS20 collection. Down to the buttons, English’s innovative designs pave the way for the future of fashion, and the world.
Holding the body with a liquid poise, its ruches and ripples lapping gently at its shores.
Our Garden of Eden has been sabotaged by foolishness and gluttony. It’s sacred wells now set to rise at least 65 centimetres by 2100, Salvatore Vignola’s SS20 collection “1994” is a homage to the sea and a proclamation to protect it.
Still waters were made rapid on the set of Act n°1’s presentation as heel-studded models splashed their way through the wet catwalk.
A myriad of bells, horns, and rock’n’roll filled Milan’s Fabbrica as MM6 kicked off day 1 of Milan Fashion Week with a ceremony of love! Complete with wedding cake and prosecco, the evening was the perfect celebration of fashion and design.
Happy 6th-year anniversary to self-titled London-based brand Liam Hodges - whose new SS20 collection Fifth Generation explores futurism and pressure of social media, inspired by online personalities, cyberpunk ideas and stock computer game characters.
Unisex Korean brand YOUSER debued their first collection to be presented in Europe, bringing us Western-Futurism fusion.
Magliano SS20 welcomed us yet again with a stunning cast of intriguingly diverse models, swanning down the runway.
Following their latest presentation, Amsterdam-based denim brand focused on love—something they believe the world needs. Draped dresses, tie-dye suits with red trim fur, and distinctive knits joined their usual roster of upcycled denim designs at their speed-dating event at the Ace Hotel in L.A.
Instinctive spirituality, psychological and technological limbos and meditative raving, the LEO trio rejects fictional muses and designs for the real woman of our generation.
