The editorial selection
Stories to return to. References to keep.
Selected feature
Paris Fashion Week’s current calendar makes a quiet fact plain: a collection is already a different cultural object in a room, a livestream, a digital presentation or a film released later.
Reference / from the desks
Art Basel Paris will leave the Grand Palais for five days. The useful question is not whether the programme is in the city, but whether it changes who can enter, how they meet the work and what a site is allowed to mean.
art fairs / public programme / cultural access
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Counterpoint
A Paris exhibition opens with 40 looks. A Black-founded archive in Harlem reminds us that fashion becomes history through the people who decide to keep the record.
The wider index
A working archive for the curious.
Counterpoint
Lagos Fashion Week’s Green Access 2026 names a route from material and technique to production, critique and return. The relevant question is not whether craft looks contemporary. It is whether the work leaves a trace.
Reference / from the desks
A fashion week is not only what reaches the front row. It is the room, resource, route and return that allow a practice to be seen again.
London Fashion Week / BFC NEWGEN / Fashion infrastructure
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A field guide to the afterlife of things: what to ask before a material becomes a surface, a product or a promise.
Reference / from the desks
For LDF 2026, follow the material and cultural lineages arriving in London—without mistaking the city for the author of every conversation it hosts.
London Design Festival / LDF2026 / Design Degree
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Counterpoint
Cochineal is not a colour story. It is a test of what luxury chooses to remember.
Reference / from the desks
A look at Grace Jones's distinctive style, from structured Mugler suits and bodysuits to leather and silk, and the influence of her wardrobe on her work.
style / fashion / icons
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The relationship between fashion and art has always been symbiotic, but 2025 marks a decisive shift from casual collaboration to institutional integration. From Burberry's V&A partnership to Art Basel Paris's luxury brand activations, discover how the new generation of omni-collectors is reshaping cultural patronage.
Reference / from the desks
Paris may be one of the world's most visited cities, but 2025 has brought an unexpected new flavor—a post-Olympic transformation reshaping the contemporary art scene.
paris / cultural-renaissance / contemporary-art
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Counterpoint
Nigerian designers are reshaping global fashion with bold aesthetics honoring traditional craft while pushing contemporary boundaries. From Lagos Fashion Week to international runways.
