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A Curiosity Room of One’s Own: Musings on a Year of JW Anderson’s Lifestyle Pivot, Parisian Pop-Ups, and Scissors From My Home City

JW Anderson had a pair of stork scissors crafted in my home city, and rightly so; the Canterbury Tales was the first to mention Sheffield’s role in the cutlery trade, and we used to be the principle steelmakers in all of the world. It’s where Sheffield is situated that made the conditions so ideal for the then-called “little mesters” to produce their work. America imported tracks for rail transport from us in the early 1870s, more than triple the amount the country made itself in actuality, and...
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The British Fashion Council Announce Provisional London Fashion Week Schedule

Following the news that Alexander McQueen will return to London Fashion Week for the first time in years, the British Fashion Council has unveiled its provisional Spring/Summer 2027 schedule - it promises a season that balances established British powerhouses with plenty of upcoming pioneers. Several labels will make their London Fashion Week debut this season, including menswear designer Geordie Campbell, Joyce Bao, whose work offers a contemporary reimagining of femininity, Indian label Lovebi...
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Go Striking with the New Dior Bolt Bag

The brand new Bolt bag from Christian Dior is as striking as its name - Jonathan Anderson has been toying with the cannage pattern since his debut, but the motif has taken on an almost athletic form for Winter 2026-2027.Unveiled as part of the season’s accessories offering, the Dior Bolt represents Anderson’s continued exploration of movement and utility within Dior. While the cannage motif remains instantly recognisable, it appears flatter and more graphic here, lending the collection a contemp...
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Azca Auctions Sells a Rare Alexander McQueen Gown by Sarah Burton for £2,500

A Kaleidoscope gown by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen has sold for £2,500 at Azca Auctions in London. The Hammersmith auction house saw international competitors bid for the piece on July 7th - it was finally secured by a private collector.Lot 100, the silk gown was a slice of Sarah Burton’s 2011 debut for the house for Spring / Summer; equal parts fantastically stagy and enchanting, the dress incorporated one of the Maison’s most enduring codes, the skull, and exemplified the collection’s p...
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The Bigger Picture for Kering’s Alexander McQueen Following the Appointment of a New CEO

It’s no great secret that Alexander McQueen has broken into 2026 in a state of protracted instability, the result of several coalescing pressures that have chipped away at both its financial performance and its cultural footing. The brand’s revenue decline - an approximate swan dive of 60% between 2022 and 2025 - purportedly reflects the departure of Creative Director Sarah Burton in 2023 and has since been compounded by clear strategic uncertainty radiating from  the top of the House. Burton’s...
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Chloé’s Spring 2027 Collection Pays a Sensual Homage to Tailoring

Stella McCartney’s debut for Chloé in 1997 was crafted in collaboration with star tailor Edward Sexton. Once his apprentice and tailor to McCartney’s father, Sexton brought a status of artistry often in short supply - he dressed a myriad of celebrity icons including The Beatles, who wore his and his business partner Tommy Nutter's suits on the cover of Abbey Road. Now, the tailor makes a posthumous return in the form of Chloé's latest collection for Spring 2027, a callback to their 1990s epoch w...
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Fashion Steps onto the Court with the New Dior Hooper Trainers

Jonathan Anderson continues to build his vision for a contemporary Dior with the introduction of the Dior Hooper, a new trainer unveiled as part of the House’s Winter 2026 collection. Drawing inspiration from the prominent basketball silhouettes of the 1980s, the style reflects Anderson’s ongoing fascination with recontextualising familiar cultural references for the luxury gaze.The Dior Hooper arrives with a streamlined profile that balances sportswear influences with the refined craftsmanship...
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Jonathan Anderson Honours Lynda Benglis In His Second Haute Couture Collection for Dior

Every artist gets their turn as Jonathan Anderson’s muse, and this time American sculptor Lynda Benglis has her turn. Today’s Haute Couture collection for Dior was an homage to her techniques, including pleating and knotting. From 1982 all the way along to the 1990s, Benglis created pleats using sprayed and polished wire mesh - Anderson gives it an Haute Couture makeover via hand-plissé. If you believed the invitations were just because of the weather, you get half a gold star. Anderson has so f...
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Dior After Hours: Jonathan Anderson Presents One of His Most Outstanding and Euphoric Collections Yet for Dior’s Summer 2027 Menswear Show

Previously for Dior’s menswear, Jonathan Anderson evoked a feeling of buoyancy with a punk-ish edge. Now the party is over at the Musée Nissim de Camondo, currently undergoing an extensive restoration. Home to major holdings of 18th-century decorative arts, the Belle Epoque show space also features specially commissioned oil paintings by the contemporary artist Giangiacomo Rossetti depicting models wearing looks from the collection. I always say Anderson's shows have a duality to them, and I thi...
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Jonathan Anderson Takes His Place Beside Dior’s Past Creative Directors in New La Galerie Dior Exhibition

Jonathan Anderson has taken his rightful place beside Dior’s past Creative Directors at the brand new reflective exhibition curated at La Galerie Dior, and it’s the first to retell the story of a House in its birthplace. The transient displays are designed to trace the origins of the brand, straight to the heart of Haute Couture.From Christian Dior himself right up to Anderson in the present day, the presentation of almost 150 designs and their original sketches are shown alongside photographs a...
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McQueen Returns Home to London Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2027

McQueen is set to return to the official London Fashion Week schedule for Spring/Summer 2027, marking a significant homecoming for one of Britain's most influential luxury fashion houses. The brand announced that it will stage its runway show on Sunday, 20 September, bringing both womenswear and menswear back to the city where founder Lee Alexander McQueen established the label in 1992 and learned the art of the trade.The presentation will be particularly notable - it marks Creative Director Seá...
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Step Inside JW Anderson Spring Summer 2027

JW Anderson has forever been rooted in the playful and the handmade. Their most recent release is no anomaly in the brand’s highbrow yet dry dossier and, as usual, at the very heart of the latest collection is Jonathan Anderson's abiding fascination with curation as a creative act. Shaped by an appreciation for the beauty of craftsmanship and community, it’s a pure counterpart to the designer's belief that creativity flourishes through collaboration and inventive exchange. The accompanying lookb...
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Ten for Ten: Resort Shows

Due to our upcoming print issue we had to push our monthly top ten back by a week. However we decided to peruse all of Australia resort week collections in the meantime to really deliver something that would introduce everyone who reads to some fantastic designers down under. We are really glad we managed to get this to the finish line as fast as we could and are super eager to get started on next month’s. As a reminder, Ujjesha uses the timeless red whereas Lucy’s colour of choice is the classi...
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Introducing the New Dior Toujours Hobo Silhouette, Coming in July

Jonathan Anderson has recrafted the Dior Toujours into a brand new relaxed silhoutte, part of his Winter 2027 Collection. The Dior Toujours Hobo is pliable and rounded, creating a contemporary structure elevated by the House's signature cannage quilted emblem. With a removeable shoulder strap and the ability to style and carry however you see fit, the bag is versatile and incredibly roomy. The piece is complete with a CD clasp to lock everything in place, a discreet nod to the Christian Dior her...
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Osaka Hosts the Newest House of Dior in Shinsaibasi

Dior opened the doors to its newest flagship, located in the Shinsaibasi district of Osaka, this month. Its not the first time the brand has had strong interrelations with Japan; Christian Dior himself was the first ever Western couturier to show his collections there in the early 1950s, while John Galliano indelibly drew upon the Giacomo Puccini opera Madame Butterfly for his Spring 2007 show. Now, the ties are stronger than ever.Japanese architect Sou Fojimoto, responsible for projects such as...
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Artist Alex Chinneck Turns Dior Window Displays into Stunningly Abstract Dreamscapes

Since appointing Jonathan Anderson, Dior has sidled much more decisively into the fantastical. Anderson’s initial self-restraint has, over the course of the last few runways, loosened into something far more characterful. Cadillacs restructured as Saddlebags are amongst other accessories with a distinctly Hollywood sheen shown at his Cruise debut last week. Anderson’s own personality is now fully in play, and with that comes a precise reworking of the brand’s voice; for a house leaning into wit...
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Dior Celebrates Their 80th Anniversary With A Brand New Exhibition

Before the famed Avenue Montaigne and the ascendance of  the New Look, there existed a seaside villa  in powder pink and what we’d now gleefully refer to as Dior grey. The Musée Christian Dior is hosted within this very house, a place that primed a very young Christian Dior’s imagination. Perched above the Normandy coastline in Granville, the Villa Les Rhumbs returns this spring with a new exhibition tracing the designer’s earliest obsessions that would later bloom into the codes of one of the m...
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Quiet on Set for Dior Cruise 2027

Dior has taken LA’s County Museum of Art and Jonathan Anderson is officially a kid in America. After handing out sets of car keys as invites, with Dior trinkets and all, the show commenced in a low-lit setting obscured by the smog of Old Hollywood glamour. I’ve spoken before about how Anderson uses the dissimilarity between real and fake to whip up a storyline steeped in escapism, and Dior Cruise 2027 was no different; a small portion of LA was pulled aside to create the smoky backdrop, complete...
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Introducing The Voyou Bucket Bag by Givenchy

The newest family member to join Givenchy’s handbag universe comes in the form of the Voyou Bucket bag, named for the French term Voyou meaning trouble-maker. They’re high-spirited indeed with a fresh take on Parisian style. Insolent with a real attitude, they’re drenched in Givenchy house codes. Sarah Burton’s vision for the house has been calling upon the brand’s DNA thus far, and the Voyou is a direct extension; with a cinching drawstring closure, the silhouette is soft and inspired by the bi...
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Soaking up Jonathan Anderson’s delightful Dioriviera collection

It’s another sunrise over Jonathan Anderson’s tenure at Dior, and the Dioriviera collection is in full swing. Reimagined through his lens, it’s a colourful escape filled with whimsy and that customary carefree spirit. The ready‐to‐wear line bursts with botanical‐inspired prints that animate a breezy summer wardrobe. Sailor knits, swim pieces, and the signature Dior Medallion belt sit alongside relaxed bucket hats and fluid silk scarves, creating a mood that blends Mediterranean ease with perky s...
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Ten for Ten: Met Gala looks

There is a lot to be said about this gorgeous creation by Thom Browne based on the evening dress in her artwork Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance) from 2013. Late Renaissance art has some of the most well known self references so it seems fitting that one of America’s leading painters decided to use that tool to bring to life an evening dress from an artwork that ended up making her the first woman as well as the first African American to win the Outwin Boochever prize. She did the theme...
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Matthieu Blazy Takes Sunny Chanel Back To Its Roots With His Debut Cruise Collection

The only way to behave in Biarritz is armed with the breezy, salt‑stung confidence of someone who understands that the most gloriously radical thing Gabrielle Chanel ever did was give women the opportunity to step outside - in more ways than one. Chanel under Matthieu Blazy has already been set to be liberating and leisurely, and he has continued to encapsulate that ideology and more - especially since the experience is being shared through time by the brand’s founder, who showed her own first c...
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Dior’s Latest Reinterpretation of The Medallion Motif Arrives in Bag Form

In the palm of Dior’s Fall 2026 offering comes Jonathan Anderson’s continued but tender unpicking and reassembling of the House’s visual language, returning this season to one of its most enduring signatures: the Medallion. First introduced in 1947 as part of Dior’s founding codes, and in furniture form, the motif - here softened with theaddition of afeminine, almost understated bow - has been shrewdly recontextualised for the modern wardrobe. It’s no mere decoration this time either, and Anders...
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Check In To The Louis Vuitton Hotel Pop-Up Experience, Set To Open Later This Month

One of the most interesting things about fashion houses is the way they demonstrate their craft, usually long-treated as extracurricular demonstrations. Habituating the world of cosmetics has become kismet for brands, and most have had a crack at the hospitality business: Versace broke into the industry at the start of the millennium, while Gucci celebrated their centenary on a much smaller scale viaasuite in the Savoy. While Guccio Gucci may have worked at the hotel in his youth, one sincerely...
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