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A STUDY IN STILLNESS
In LOEWE’s FW25 precollection, character takes centre stage once again.
Captured by Gray Sorrenti, the campaign blurs lines between reality and roleplay — a cinematic ensemble featuring Yang Mi, Greta Lee, Josh O’Connor and Stéphane Bak inhabits modernist interiors where reflection, light and form distort expectation.
There’s a quiet tension: bodies lounge, observe, withdraw. Are they rehearsing, dreaming, remembering? Draped in twisted tailoring, fluid leathers and florals, each silhouette plays with scale and proportion — the kind of visual play that defines LOEWE.
Bags become totems in the scene: the Puzzle, the Madrid, the Roll-top. Softness meets structure. Mystery lingers. The wardrobe thinks before it speaks.
ROMANCE OF REBELLION
In the heart of Soho, McQueen finds poetry in the dissonance. Tailored silhouettes stalk the streets where writers once drank and rebels once dreamed — sharp collars, broad shoulders, and the sting of metallic thread catching light. Francis Bacon’s ghost lingers in the shadows of lace-lined satin, beside sailors in reworked gabardine. Theo Sion captures the clash: heritage cut against flight jacket edge, antique leather softened by city glow. Inside The Coach & Horses, the past leans into the present — with Soho George and Florence Joelle carrying the spirit forward. A tribute to London’s grit, romance, and refusal to be tamed.
AN ORDINARY DAY
SAINT LAURENT
An Ordinary Day
by Anthony Vaccarello
Photographed by Martin Parr
An Ordinary Day is anything but. Through Martin Parr’s saturated lens and Anthony Vaccarello’s precise eye, the banal becomes theatrical — plastic chairs, sunburnt skin, greasy spoons all elevated to high fashion’s quietly amused stage. It’s a study in contrasts: hyperreal color meets restrained styling, irony brushed against elegance. Every frame hums with voyeurism, wit, and something oddly tender. Parr doesn’t romanticize — he reveals. And Vaccarello, always flirting with subversion, finds beauty where others see clutter. The result? A collection that smirks at spectacle while becoming one.
PRADA FRAMES X SALONE DEL MOBILE 2025
In what has become a welcome custom of Salone del Mobile – the world’s largest design fair taking place in Milan this year from April 8th to April 13th – Prada Frames returned for its fourth edition! Following last year’s focus on the home space, this year’s iteration of the three-day symposium, hosted by the Italian fashion house in tandem with research and design practice Formafantasma, centred its lens around forms of mobility.
Aptly titled In Transit, the conference looked at how global distribution networks and digital revolutions shape our daily lives. Through examining the disruptive impact of online and logistical infrastructures and the juxtaposition between the ease of global transit of goods and the challenges related to human migrations, the symposium offered a critical take on modern hypermobility.
The subjects were discussed by speakers from the realms of academia, design, art and technology – from AI scholar Kate Crawford doing a talk on digital infrastructures and researcher Marta Foresti looking at tools designed to enforce migration to author Nicola Twilley tracking the way in which refrigeration technology has impacted the global consumption and distribution of food.
Each year, Formafantasma’s co-founders Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi conceptualise a captivating venue for the event that evocatively encapsulates its centre of attention. This time around, the duo invited the guests to Milan’s Central Train Station, hosting the talks in the historical waiting area Padiglione Reale (used back in the day by the Italian royal family and heads of state) and the Arlecchino train from the 1950s designed by Gio Ponti and Giulio Minoletti.
Words by Martin Onufrowicz
CLEMENTE X SAINT LAURENT
For the Summer 2025 campaign, Saint Laurent invited acclaimed artist Francesco Clemente to create a series of portraits capturing the essence of actors Zoë Kravitz and Isabella Ferrari, alongside models Penelope Ternes and Ajus Samuel. Through his poetic brushstrokes, Clemente transforms each subject into a symbolic figure, radiating quiet strength and a deeply personal expression of femininity.
Anthony Vaccarello was drawn to Clemente’s emotive approach, recognizing in his layered use of color a natural resonance with the spirit of the season’s collection.
Since the 1970s, Clemente’s art has been shaped by his travels across cultures, each experience leaving a subtle imprint on his work. After settling in New York in the 1980s, his evocative paintings—often exploring the fluidity of identity between the spiritual and the material, the feminine and the masculine—helped reaffirm painting as a vital and relevant medium. His creative path includes collaborations with legendary figures such as Andy Warhol, poet Allen Ginsberg, and filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón for his 1993 adaptation of Great Expectations.
This collaboration between Clemente and Saint Laurent reflects Anthony Vaccarello’s ongoing commitment to engaging with visionary artists across disciplines. By bringing his singular perspective to the campaign, Clemente adds a new layer to the ongoing dialogue between fashion and art—one that continues to evolve with each season.
Art direction Anthony Vaccarello
Artist Francesco Clemente
In collaboration with Vito Schnabel Gallery
Talents Zoë Kravitz, Isabella Ferrari, Penelope Ternes, Ajus Samuel
#YSL #SaintLaurent #YvesSaintLaurent #YSL58 @anthonyvaccarello
LUDOVIC DE SAINT SERNIN BACKSTAGE FW25
Photography by Oriane Verstraeten
COURREGES BACKSTAGE FW25
Photography by Oriane Verstraeten
ECHOES OF ELSEWHERE
Shot by Jack Pierson, the Bally Spring/Summer 2025 campaign unfolds in the sun-drenched Coachella Valley, just outside of Palm Springs, California. The setting—an architectural masterpiece designed by Swiss modernist Albert Frey in 1964—serves as more than just a backdrop. Frey’s signature fusion of structure and landscape, where glass walls dissolve the boundary between indoors and outdoors, echoes the central theme of Bally’s latest collection: a delicate interplay between heritage and evolution, restraint and liberation.
Postcards featuring idyllic Swiss landscapes punctuate the campaign, an overt yet poetic nod to the maison’s origins. These images act as visual footnotes, reinforcing Bally’s Swiss roots while emphasizing the brand’s defiance of rigid borders—both geographic and conceptual. Founded in 1854, Bally’s heritage is undeniable but, rather than confining itself to the past, the brand embraces transformation.
This philosophy of freedom is woven into the very fabric of the Spring/Summer 2025 collection. Inspired by the Dada movement—which started in Switzerland with sound-poetry author Hugo Ball—creative director Simone Bellotti pondered on the dichotomy between tradition and modernity. References to Ball’s artistic revolution are made in cocooning silhouettes and ruffle peplums—the same now transported to a desert-like environment.
Bally thrives in contradiction. Like Dadaism, which sought to dismantle artistic norms, the collection questions the rigidity of heritage while honoring its essence. The campaign’s mise-en-scène reflects this duality, where the stark modernity of Frey’s architecture and the surrounding wilderness provide a fitting stage for Bally’s latest evolution.
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Words by Pedro Vasconcelos
AS TIME GOES BY
Under Anthony Vaccarello’s creative direction, Saint Laurent’s new project draws inspiration from Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time”, exploring memory and Monsieur Saint Laurent’s favorite book.
This collection of short films, directed by Nadia Lee Cohen, features Charlotte Gainsbourg, John Waters, Chloë Sevigny, Addison Rae, Joey King, Travis Bennett, Cooper Koch, and more.
“As time goes by” is capturing the essence of Proust’s narrative with an auteurist eye and unique sense of irony, plunging into Proust’s mind and transforming his themes into a visual experience.
In each film, recurring themes from Proust’s work — Love, Togetherness, Dreaming, Desire, Time, and Memory — are cinematic meditations on emotion, set against the evocative nature of the season.
First published in seven volumes, Proust’s masterpiece contemplates the way the past shapes our identities.
MODERN FREEDOM
For the CHANEL Cruise 2024/25 collection campaign, photographer Jamie Hawkesworth captured a series of portraits of model Loli-Bahia in and around Marseille, embodying the independence, ease, and modernity of the House and the collection. Loli-Bahia embodies the feeling of wind, sun, sea and sky as she surveys the coastline in classic black and white CHANEL lines, here reimagined into a scuba diving suit. Across the images, we see the codes of the House, reconfigured for the Mediterranean.
The sporty attitude is reflected in the season’s iconic tweed jackets, which appear throughout the campaign. The silhouette is reinterpreted with athletic details: with hoods made in sweatshirt, press studs and shell embroideries, their modernity mirrored by the angular geometries of the urban environment. An active feel runs through the rest of the collection, from cycling shorts rendered in fine leather to denim bermudas embellished with braid like a tracksuit. Flat shoes in black patent leather nod to both tuxedo shoes and scuba-wear.
There is a feeling, too, of escape: in the iconic 11.12 bag, which is rendered in luminous pastel tones, in a cotton poplin and lace top and skirt, and in the straw boater hats - a style favoured by Gabrielle Chanel - worn by Loli-Bahia with an insouciance and youthful allure.
These images capture a sense of spontaneity and effervescence. This is the spirit and attitude of the CHANEL woman today: active, energetic, and free.
The Cruise 2024/25 collection will be available in CHANEL boutiques in November.
HOT AS ICE
In a place like Dubai, standing out from a glamorous crowd is no easy feat. Well, that is unless you’re Bella Hadid. The Palestinian-Dutch supermodel and Chopard ambassador visited the metropolis this week to celebrate the re-opening of the brand’s flagship boutique at the Dubai Mall and release of the new pieces from the Ice Cube Haute Joaillerie capsule collection.
Following the daytime activities at the mall, such as cutting the ribbon to the store’s entrance (wearing ultra-sharp Thierry Mugler ensemble from the 1980s), Hadid joined the nighttime festivities at Al Serkal Avenue – Dubai’s buzzy creative district filled with art galleries, cafés and cultural centres. The Swiss luxury jewellery brand took over the space of Jaipur Rugs and transformed it into Club Chopard for one night only, with a party DJ-ed by the energetic duo Mestiza. The venue was filled with references to the glistening collection - from mirrored walls that resembled the design of the stunning pieces to lollipops that looked like ice cubes.
Entering the room in a vintage couture embellished gown by Lebanese fashion designer Elie Saab and a choker and bracelet from the collection, Hadid strutted down the steps with her singular energy that she became known for on the runways and red carpets around the world. Full of radiance and kindness, the supermodel made the shimmering city shine even brighter than usual.
Words by Martin Onufrowicz
IRRIVERENT WONDER
The Miu Miu Holiday Campaign, photographed by Lengua and featuring actor Emma Corrin, evokes the charm of vintage holiday postcards with a minimalist, silk-wrapped setting and soft, tinted imagery. The scene captures a sense of time passing, with characters shifting through various poses and outfits that transition from relaxed daywear to festive evening attire. Accessories like moccasins, knee boots, and statement bags add seasonal flair. The campaign also debuts Miu Miu’s 2024 Upcycled collection, emphasizing unique pieces made from deadstock materials, reflecting a commitment to sustainable, circular design with a vintage-inspired aesthetic.
THE DINNER GUESTS
A table laden with plenty, an ambience of festivity. The Prada Holiday campaign takes place at a dinner-party, over a well-appointed tabletop set with a seasonal repast, precious china and crystal - a symbol of the holidays.
Each of these tablescapes showcases a universe of Prada - the fine porcelain homewares and crystal feature distinctive house colors, emblematic Prada patterns transposed. Even the food itself conveys a Prada identity - confectionaries from Marchesi 1824, the historic Milanese Pasticceria, include tiered cakes crowned with bears and highly-decorated Panettone, the archetypical Milanese seasonal cake. All add to an aesthetic entirety, reflected in clothes and accessories from the Prada Holiday collection, handbags interrupting the table like waylaid gifts.
Around the table, a global cross-section of talent is brought together for the first time: American actor Kelvin Harrison Jr.; American singer-songwriter and actor Maya Hawke; South Korean singer and the leader of K-pop group aespa KARINA; and British actor Louis Partridge. Prada’s trademark ‘Trick’ robots here become life-sized protagonists, playful fellow diners and unexpected guests.
These images, photographed by Willy Vanderperre, see individuals converging in fantastical spaces devised for celebration and enjoyment. These tables are not mere set-dressing – they represent timeless values of comfort, prosperity and pleasure.
SCENT OF HERITAGE
Bottega Veneta introduces its first fragrance collection under Creative Director Matthieu Blazy, inspired by the brand’s Venetian heritage and its signature leather weave, the Intrecciato. The collection’s five fragrances merge natural ingredients from around the world, reflecting Venice’s history as a cultural crossroads. Scents like Colpo di Sole and Come with Me blend Mediterranean warmth and elegance, while Déjà Minuit and Alchemie offer more seductive, spicy notes. The handcrafted bottles evoke Venetian craftsmanship, featuring mouth-blown glass aesthetics with unique air bubbles, paying homage to Murano glassmaking. Sustainable and refillable, the bottles combine tactile pleasure with luxurious design, echoing Bottega Veneta’s artisanal legacy.
VOYOU
This season, Givenchy reimagines its beloved Voyou handbags, introducing new styles that exude both edge and elegance. The collection now includes the P’tit Voyou, a soft flap shoulder bag that brings a fresh, feminine twist, and the charming Nano Voyou, a miniature version perfect for on-the-go chic. The medium-sized Voyou, revamped in a bold vermilion with multi-buckle details, also makes a statement. These pieces come to life in a striking campaign featuring model Julie Hoomans, photographed in Paris by Tess Petronio, capturing the essence of modern femininity and effortless Parisian style. Each bag in the collection marries Givenchy’s signature luxury with a rebellious spirit, making them not just accessories, but expressions of individuality and confidence.
TALES & TELLERS
MIU MIU’s ‘Tales & Tellers’ at Art Basel Paris is a captivating exploration of narrative and creativity, curated by Goshka Macuga and Elvira Dyangani Ose.
Set in the iconic Palais D’Iéna, the project blends Miu Miu Women’s Tales short films with artistic videos from recent runway shows, creating a multidimensional experience.
The exhibition is more than just a visual feast; it’s a platform for dialogue, featuring panel discussions and guided tours that dive into the stories behind the art. This event is a must-see for anyone interested in the intersection of fashion, film, and contemporary art, offering free admission and a chance to engage deeply with the creative process. Register for the event starting October 3rd on miumiu.com.
ZV X SUNNY
Zadig&Voltaire introduces three new variations of the iconic Sunny bag: the Sunny Hobo, Sunny Mood, and Sunny Moody.
The Sunny Hobo is an extra-large bag for busy lifestyles, while the Sunny Mood is a mini bag with Y2K accents and a versatile size for day and night.
The Sunny Moody, based on the Sunny Mood, offers extra volume and comes in black, off-white, and red. Each bag features the brand's signature double zips, adding a rock spirit and additional volume.
ANTIGONA CUBE
For Fall 2024, Givenchy presents the Antigona Cube, the latest in its Antigona handbag line. This bag features a modular, origami-like design with small grained calf leather, refined hardware, and articulated handles, offering a nonchalant yet elegant allure. Available in both Mini and Nano versions, it is meticulously crafted in glossy or laminated leather. The Antigona Cube is versatile, with short handles for hand carry and a removable strap for crossbody wear. Despite its small size, it has a spacious compartment with practical inner pockets. The bag’s subtle bombé contours and distinctive Givenchy triangle patch enhance its sophisticated yet contemporary spirit. Suitable for day-to-night use, it comes in classic colors like black and ivory, as well as seasonal hues like soft tan and raspberry.
MIU MIU UPCYCLED 24
Miu Miu is pleased to announce the launch of its fifth Miu Miu Upcycled collection, built once again, around denim, a material famous for its durability and cherished for the unique patina it develops with age. Both symbolically and physically, denim tells its own story.
Introduced in 2020 the Miu Miu Upcycled initiative celebrates the precious nature of vintage fashion and encourages circular design practice. The value of history, of the timelessly beautiful, is passed down to enrich the present and future.
For this collection the original garments were meticulously sourced from experts in the field the world over, then disassembled at the seams and natural suede borders were added using visible white stitching. Re-fashioned, jeans are loose-fitting and worn low on the hips, scarf tops and micro-shorts are abbreviated, cropped in line with the iconic Miu Miu ready-to-wear silhouette. Snappers - carefully removed, then reinstated – are engraved with Miu Miu branding. In the case of blouson jackets, the form is also modified: shortened. Central buttons are replaced by suede borders and a front fastening zip.
The accompanying Miu Miu Upcycled campaign is photographed by Tarek Cassim on models Ana Elisa Brito, Wenqing Liu and Alice McGrath. A series of discreetly cut-out and collaged portraits, the imagery echoes the Upcycled by Miu Miu design process, allowing the product and the characters wearing it to shine.
