Months of coastal daydreams give way to the real thing. Salty, wet, and sun-drenched, there is something in the air. Surfers kick up sand, and sunbathers line the shore halfway between Rome and Naples. Days simmer into nights. A single moment rolls into the next, until the air begins to chill. The words on everyone’s lips: A l’estate prossima.
In a time of endless temptations, holiday gratification can come as instantaneous as you'd like—as captured here entirely via iPhone 16.
Preserved in his London flat, Alexander Fury’s sprawling archive of rare, haute couture would elicit awe from any fashion connoisseur. Rightly so, the fashion critic is still obsessed with each and every piece.
In Paris, Daria Strokous searches for wonder, magic in spite of the changing seasons.
We dress to be everywhere all at once. Tokens of our day accumulate in our arms as we zig and zag from Marseille to Milan. The night’s accessories stacked over the morning’s sweater. Sunglasses, a notepad, a charger, spare change, a pen. They all spill out of bags and into arms, a juggling routine, a dance. To stop would throw off the rhythm, so we keep going at full speed.
The late French sculptor César inspired Tiffany’s new homeware collection, which features playful “broken plates,” gold-plated flatware, and melting candle holders.
Dior’s first ever North American storefront devoted to fragrance and beauty offers an opulent display of products, make-up and scent consultations, and gift sets.
We revel in shapes that cast shadows with our bodies, angular and strong. Metamorphically, these fabrics realize our fantasies and dreams into otherworldly sizes and forms. Materials billow up and build around us. Soon enough, we become monuments of our own.
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Prada and Axiom Space designed a sleek spacesuit to be worn by NASA astronauts on their mission to the moon, marking mankind’s first voyage in over 50 years.
She arrives at midnight in six-inch heels, floating on a cloud of oud. Aura metallic. Whispers hum around her like a force field: She says she comes from Saturn. Wet skin, lips. Icy eyes, slicked hair, stacked hoops. There is no other option but to believe her.
Haider Ackermann has earned the luxury of reflection. Now, the designer known for inspiring desire is surer than ever in the resonance of his own voice.
Clothes shrink and disappear under the unforgiving, white-hot summer sun. But for the whimsical and inspired, the bone-dry heat is no match for the fantasy of getting dolled up. Wools, gowns, hats, tinsel, and sequins are, after all, a glamorous barrier against sunburn—and when the Mediterranean breeze rolls into the eastern coast, they rustle, billow, and glisten to the rhythm of castanets in the distance.
The fashion creations of Torishéju Dumi reveal equal parts distortion and elegance, inspired at once by Nigerian mysticism and a myriad of familial anecdotes.
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Not too long ago, style was truly personal. Outfits offered a safe and temporal space to experiment with identity, says Stefano Tonchi. Clothes faded back into the closet after the day was finished, sans digital footprint.
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Captured by many but only really known by a few, Carolyn Murphy has conquered ubiquity while preserving the sanctity of mystery. But who is the fashion chameleon when she steps back from the glaring spotlight? As the legendary model confides to long-time collaborator Michael Kors: whoever she wants to be.
After a captivating runway show at the Guggenheim, the house announced an exclusive New York City capsule collection.
Prada’s Fall/Winter 2024 campaign has a hotline—call it and the artist, writer, actor, and filmmaker’s voice will answer.
Channeling its iconic house codes, Chanel’s new product—at once a necklace, watch, and pair of headphones—is the city dweller’s new Swiss Army knife.
Balenciaga's new collaboration with Apple allows users to imagine its clothes through spatial computing technology.
Cult grocer Erewhon dips its toe into footwear with a new collaboration with UGG.
Mass produced or hand crafted, decorative or practical, an object always has a subliminal use. Pens to write, clothes to wear, books to read. We see a shape and innately know what to do with it. But what if we didn’t? What if, for a moment, we willed ourselves to forget—and instead of utility, we saw limitless possibility?
Inspired by the opulence and glamor of New York’s freewheeling ‘70s, the Chloé’s Spring/Summer 2025 collection channels both the muse and the maker.
Paloma Elsesser is an everywoman in a monomyth. The supermodel has spent her hot ascent to fame atop a pedestal built, in many ways, to reduce its subject to material matter. Her resilience and humanity pervades. This fascination with the charged nature of physicality reverberates in the work of Ser Serpas, the artist who choreographs found objects into animated, poetic, and dystopian scenes.
