In 2022, fakeness seems to be fashion’s new reality. Take, for instance, Loewe’s spring 2023 collection, for which creative director Jonathan Anderson looked to artificiality as a source of inspiration. Surreal, sci-fi elements were tacked onto dresses, shoes, and bags. The designer put features of nature and everyday ephemera on full display—like fiberglass anthurium flowers magnified and stuck onto frocks; or blown up, pixelated t-shirts. Models at Puppets and Puppets carried bags affixed with bananas, cookies, and other fake foods that looked hyperreal—and straight off a dinner plate. After what feels like a lifetime of Hermès hauls, luxury “It” bag obsessions, and Old Money content on TikTok, trends have recently skewed in the opposite direction: editors, stylists, and influencers have taken to...

Renowned Japanese artist, Yoshitomo Nara, has joined forces with British luxury house Stella McCartney for the brand’s Spring/Summer 2023 collection. The two creative powerhouses marry their brand ethos’ and individual identities to debut a lively gender-neutral capsule collection that serves as the second chapter to their first collaborative endeavor in 2021. “In our first collaboration, Stella chose which of my artworks she wanted to use and played around with them freely when integrating them into her designs,” shares Nara. “This time, I selected the artworks I wanted her to use and she once again had the freedom to place them as she wished in her pieces.” Using Nara’s work as the collaboration's point of inception, the collection bridges art, fashion, and street...

MadeMe by Erin Magee is widely known as the saucy downtown streetwear brand, capturing the hearts of girls like Lourdes Leon, Paloma Elsesser, and Princess Nokia. Now she’s launched handbags and partnered with an equally radical magazine on the campaign—an international meeting of the minds. The Trinity, a rounded shoulder bag that recalls ’90s Christian Dior shapes, makes its debut in photos in collaboration with Fruits, a street style magazine created in 1997 by photographer Shoichi Aoki that chronicled the wild and experimental looks of Japanese youth in Tokyo’s Harajuku district. Photo: Courtesy of Shoichi Aoki Photo: Courtesy of Shoichi Aoki While the magazine shuttered in 2017, this campaign makes it feel as if Fruits were back in full swing. The images, made by Aoki and Magee, are truly...

New York-based genderless brand TELFAR has unveiled its second collaboration with Canadian luxury outerwear brand Moose Knuckles. The 24-piece ready-to-wear and accessories collection is a continuation of TELFAR’s first foray into performance-driven outerwear last year. This new collection focuses on creating new weather-resistant silhouettes that embody anonymity: a distinctly New York penchant for getting noticed while minding your own business. Moose Knuckles’ iconic pieces got interpreted through an eye-catching futuristic appeal for all who want to make a statement, stay stealth, and keep warm this season. Creating coats and apparel that allow its wearer to be perceived how they want to was important to the collaboration because “In New York City, coats are basically your car, so if you work for yourself your...

What Andy Warhol understood better than anyone is that fame that lasts 15 minutes or longer is both a top-down and a bottom-up construct. The foundation for his notoriety wasn’t his racy films, the shock came from his elevation of everyday, commonplace, even banal, consumer goods in the form of Brillo boxes and paintings of Campbell Soup cans. Without being readymades, these remained graphically close to the originals, and were provocative because they chipped at the barriers between high and low, fine and commercial art, in a world in which mingling of classes and nationalities was not so common. brillo  Photo: Mike Lawn / Getty Images Although luxury fashion was slow to embrace a similar dissolution of boundaries—we’ve come a long way from...

Like The Jetsons or Oscar Niemeyer’s mid-century skyscrapers before it, Y2K style now represents a retro vision of the future. Two decades on from the year 2000, today’s designers have the space to reexamine the turn of the century style’s hallmarks: colorful, shiny plastic accessories; feathery and fuzzy textures that won’t be found in nature; icy cold space-age tones like silver, white, pink, and blue. What was Y2K? If you’d forgotten, it was the alarm and awe inspired by technology (and society) possibly crumbling because of a computer formatting issue. The accompanying Y2K aesthetic attempted to depict a new, unknown future, and as such the opportunity to reimagine the fashion rules was impossible to pass up, with styles ranging from letting it...