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At Schiaparelli, a creative block became a couture collection cast in silicone

Couture press notes often promise transcendence, especially if they’re opening Paris haute couture week at the Petit Palais on Monday 6 July. The ones handed out at Schiaparelli’s autumn/winter 2026 show described a failure instead. Daniel Roseberry admitted that after last season’s breakthrough he tried to rerun the formula and flew to Barcelona to be inspired by Gaudí, only to come home with nothing. He described the months that followed as a “possibility-denying, misery-making cycle” and said...

Dior’s new couture collection is a love letter to sculptor Lynda Benglis (and a very elegant subject change)

There was one Dior dress everybody wanted to see at the house’s autumn/winter 2026 haute couture show in Paris on Monday (6 July), and it wasn’t on the runway. Three days after Taylor Swift married Travis Kelce in a still-unseen Anderson designed gown, the fashion press descended on the Musée Rodin gardens in a 30-degree heatwave. Guests were fanning themselves with the invitations, half-hoping for a bridal reveal. Jonathan Anderson, ever the tactician, gave them an art history lesson instead. N...

At Galerie Dior, Jonathan Anderson Has Finally Taken His Place in the Archive

The exhibition is organised around thirteen themed rooms. There are gardens, ballgowns, the little black dress, the art of the toile and the role of ornamentation, which Dior describes as a way to ennoble the silhouette. One of the rooms is dedicated to Diorling, the ready-to-wear line launched in London in 1968 by Jorn Landberg, Artistic Director of Christian Dior London, as a response to the Swinging Sixties and the spirit of a new society taking shape around it. The accessories running throug...

Casablanca’s Del Mar Sneaker Has a Kidney-Shaped Pool at Its Heart

Before skateparks existed, skateboarders were riding kidney-shaped swimming pools. The curved concrete walls gave them the same sensation as a wave, and the Del Mar Skate Ranch in California became the place where that culture took shape through the 1980s. It is this moment that Casablanca Brand Art Director Steve Grimes had in mind when he designed the Del Mar sneaker.“Growing up as a skateboarder it was important to tap into the world that has shaped my life and revisit it through a different...

Hermès Opens on New Bond Street With a Crochet Horse Grooming Parlour and 500 Artworks

There are stores, and then there is what Hermès has just opened at 166 New Bond Street. Nearly 2,000 square metres spread across six buildings and five floors, fifty-five rooms, four staircases, three elevators, roof terraces, a Foster + Partners glass roof raised by one floor, a limestone and glass staircase with a handmade calfskin handrail, walls lined in classic Manchester bricks cast in mirrored glass, and more than five hundred specially selected artworks. It is the house’s sixth Maison wo...

Louis Vuitton Is Spending Summer in Arles and the Itinerary Looks Incredible

If you have ever needed an excuse to spend July in the south of France, Louis Vuitton has just provided several. This summer, in celebration of ten years of the Louis Vuitton City Guides, the house is heading to Arles for Les Rencontres de la Photographie, one of the most important photography festivals in the world. From 7th July to 5th October, Louis Vuitton will transform Le Buste et l’Oreille, a venue in the centre of Arles, into a temporary bookstore and exhibition space, hosting a series o...

Dior’s New Bolt Bag Puts the Cannage Where It’s Never Been Before

The cannage pattern has been part of Dior’s vocabulary since the beginning as the quilted grid was lifted from the cane chairs in Christian Dior’s original salon on Avenue Montaigne. For Winter 2026-2027, Jonathan Anderson has taken it somewhere new.The Dior Bolt is a bag collection built around that detail. The lead piece is a crossbody with a structured silhouette and a single flap pocket, the cannage worked flat into the leather. Handles carry the metallic Dior signature. It also comes in twe...

The Westminster Graduates Making Clothes With a Point of View

Kane ChanKane Chan’s Vice City takes Hong Kong crime cinema from the 1980s to the 2010s, translating the chaos, the conflict and the aftermath directly into clothes. Fractured garments, dishevelled layers, water-drenched prints, and rifle laser beam motifs sit alongside deconstructed power silhouettes and louche gangster style. The clothes bear the wounds of the screen and wear them well. Rachael AdegokeRachael Adegoke Aso fuses Nigerian folk tradition with British Henley Regatta suiting. She b...

The Westminster Graduates Making Clothes With a Point of View

Kane ChanKane Chan’s Vice City takes Hong Kong crime cinema from the 1980s to the 2010s, translating the chaos, the conflict and the aftermath directly into clothes. Fractured garments, dishevelled layers, water-drenched prints, and rifle laser beam motifs sit alongside deconstructed power silhouettes and louche gangster style. The clothes bear the wounds of the screen and wear them well. Rachael AdegokeRachael Adegoke Aso fuses Nigerian folk tradition with British Henley Regatta suiting. She b...

Emporio Armani’s New Bag Line Has a Japanese Folding Obsession

Emporio Armani has launched a new bag line named after the year the brand was founded. The 1981 collection takes its defining detail from the Japanese art of paper folding. Each bag features deliberate, structured folds worked into the leather itself, creating surfaces that have texture and dimension.The collection also revives a micro-print from the Emporio Armani archive, although we don’t have enough detail about what it looks like to describe it further, but it runs through the range as a co...

What Is Max Mara? The House Heads to Shanghai to Find Out

New Yorker staff writer Patricia Marx observed that New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn’t even sit down. It is hard to imagine a more fitting backdrop for a brand that has spent seventy-five years making the case that a woman in motion should never have to think about what she is wearing. Max Mara chose the Long Museum for its Resort 2027 show, and in those soaring vaulted spaces, surrounded by a city that has always understood the relationship between ambition and aes...

Dior has added to its My Dior collection, and it is as covetable as ever

The cannage motif has been part of Dior’s DNA since Christian Dior himself placed Napoleon III chairs at his first shows in 1947. The distinctive diamond weave has informed everything from the House’s quilted handbags to its fine jewellery, and the My Dior collection, overseen by Artistic Director of Dior Joaillerie Victoire de Castellane, is its most personal expression yet.This year’s new additions centre on a series of pendants that resemble elegant rings worn loosely on chain, available in y...

Umbro and Aitor Throup Are Back, and This Time They’re Rethinking the Football Kit Entirely

Umbro and Aitor Throup are returning to Paris Men’s Fashion Week with Project 3, their third collaboration and arguably their most ambitious. The collection will be available to preview by appointment at Galerie Mitterrand from June 25th to 29th.Project 3 uses anatomical engineering as its framework, taking the rigour of traditional tailoring and applying it to football and performance apparel. As a result, it sits somewhere between technical sportswear and high fashion, reframing what a footbal...

Ami Paris Just Claimed Its Corner of Place des Victoires

The new store splits into a main boutique and a modular accessories area, but don’t mistake “split” for “divided.” The whole thing flows, one room beckoning you into the next until you find yourself under a classic glass roof in what can only be described as a very stylish person’s living room. Concrete walls and an exposed mechanical ceiling sit against light-coloured hardwood floors, custom dark oak furniture, and large sofas, finished with ochre-yellow curtains, Mallet Stevens chairs, and an...

Ferrari Just Dropped a Summer Capsule and It’s Giving Riviera, Not Racing

Ferrari has built its entire identity on going fast and looking good doing it. Turns out it has no intention of slowing down, as The Summer Capsule suggests this philosophy now extends to the pool. The Summer Capsule is Ferrari’s pivot to the coast, with the collection covering everything from clothes, slides and beach accessories, to the first time, swimwear.It’s built around three colours of crisp azure, deep navy, and Ferrari’s red, and it feels like a love letter to the kind of holiday where...

Fendi’s First Couture Show Under Maria Grazia Chiuri Is Coming to Rome

On the evening of July 9th, Maria Grazia Chiuri will present her first Fendi Couture collection at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome. It’s a significant choice of venue for a significant moment and Chiuri’s debut on the Fendi couture stage, in the house’s home city rather than the usual Paris.The show comes with an exhibition attached, where guests will be invited to a private view of After: Steps Through Work – Fendi / Karl Lagerfeld 1985, a retrospective that opens...

Five sneakers that prove 2026 is a very good year for feet

Miu Miu x New BalanceMiu Miu and New Balance have been dropping new colourways of the 530 SL all year with sage green, butter yellow, periwinkle, and most recently forest green and cerise, and every single time they sell out before most people notice they’ve even dropped. With razor-thin soles, suede and mesh uppers and mismatched double laces, it also has a £1,270 price tag that should be obscene – but when a shoe looks this effortless, it turns out we’ll pay almost anything.  Onitsuka Tiger Me...

Armani/Silos is celebrating 20 years of Giorgio Armani Privé with 150 haute couture dresses

Giorgio Armani Privé is not the Armani most people know. Launched in Paris in 2005, the haute couture line is where Armani allowed himself to experiment freely with precious materials, jewel-like embroidery, and a vision of elegance entirely unconstrained by commercial consideration. “Only here am I free to do so without limits,” he said of the collection. Twenty years on, Armani/Silos in Milan is marking the anniversary with an exhibition of 150 dresses spanning the full arc of that journey. Sp...

The Ordinary Avant-Garde of Hair Stylist Pablo Kümin

Long before he was building gravity-defying structures that even Elphaba would envy for avant-garde runways, Kümin was cutting wigs for cancer and alopecia patients. “I think that was my groundwork,” he says. “It set me apart from most people working with wigs and gave my career the nudge it needed.” It is hard to spend that much time understanding what hair means to someone who has lost it and come away thinking of it as just a styling medium.This grounding hasn’t stopped him moving into strang...

Graff’s new Foufou collection is proof that diamonds can have a sense of humour

Graff is not a house typically associated with playfulness. Founded in 1960 by Laurence Graff OBE, the London house has spent six decades operating at the very top of high jewellery, responsible for cutting some of the most significant diamonds ever certified. Among them is the 302.37 carat Graff Lesedi La Rona, the largest highest colour, highest clarity diamond the GIA has ever seen, which makes Foufou, its new stacking ring collection, something of a departure French for “just a little bit ec...

David Hockney (1937–2026): The Man Who Painted Like the World Was Worth Looking At

In 1967, David Hockney painted a man diving into a swimming pool. The splash hangs frozen mid air, white against the Californian blue, and the figure is already gone under the water?. Nobody is watching at all. It is one of the loneliest paintings of the twentieth century, and also one of the most joyful. The tension between pleasure and something darker underneath ran through everything he made. Hockney died peacefully at his home in London on Thursday 11 June 2026, one month short of his 89th...

Walton Goggins returns as the face of Paul Smith’s AW26 campaign, trousers not included

If the Autumn/Winter 2025 Paul Smith campaign left you wanting more, in which Walton Goggins was firmly told to cover his shins, you’re in luck. The actor is back for a second outing with the British design house, this time working his way through the unwritten rules of menswear with the same wide-eyed enthusiasm he brings to everything else. Directed by Cameron Turnbull across four short films and a series of still images, the campaign sees Goggins apprenticed, loosely, to Sir Paul himself. The...

Everything you need to know about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

Six weeks out from its release, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is already carrying the weight of the world, or at least the weight of Hollywood’s expectations for the rest of the year. Following his Oscar-sweep with Oppenheimer, Nolan has set his sights on something rather older – Homer’s foundational epic poem, first composed around the 8th century BCE, and somehow never made it to IMAX before now. That all changes on July 17, 2026.The premise is the oldest story in the Western canon. Odysseus...

Erdem and Gay’s The Word have released a Pride t-shirt featuring artwork by Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman spent the final years of his life going blind. Diagnosed with HIV in 1986, the filmmaker, painter and activist documented his deteriorating vision in Blue, his last film, released in 1993. There was a single, unwavering shade of International Klein Blue projected onto the screen for 79 minutes, accompanied by his own voice reading from his journals. It remains one of the most radical works in British cinema. The image on Erdem’s new Pride t-shirt is taken from the zine that became B...