op-ed: fashion in 2025 is what happens when there is nothing left to copy

In his 2010 book Retromania, the music critic Simon Reynolds deftly sketched out how recent pop music had descended into pastiche by endless recombination of past styles. Whereas virtually every decade of the 20th Century until the 2000s had its musical movements, even...

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marina yee: in memoriam

“I consider myself more as an artist who does fashion and not the other way around” – Marina Yee Marina Yee, the member of the legendary Antwerp Six, passed away today after a prolonged battle with cancer. Although Yee stepped away from fashion spotlight early...

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fashion in the age of post-provenance

In today’s luxury landscape, the signs of quality—hand-finished details, artisanal production, and traceable...

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add to cart: why the hunt feels better than the grail

A few weeks ago a friend mused on the thrill of desiring an object and the inevitable disappointment of actually...

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op-ed: a guide to fashion’s pseudo events

Earlier this month the streetwear brand Aimé Leon Dore released a collaboration with the storied Italian coffee...

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what karl marx can teach us about the current state of fashion

There’s something rotten in the state of fashion. The kingdom of dreams seems to no longer be capable of producing...

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