History often presents itself as grand, sweeping narratives—wars, revolutions, prominent figures that reshaped the world. But the tiny, easily missed fragments of peoples everyday life holds a different truth than what we’re used to seeing. In some ways, the search for these details feels like reaching back in time and keeping those voices from

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#1: ON SURREALISM

Why does lunacy and irreverence feel so resonant right now? One of the principles of surrealism is an expression of the absurd in order to question power and I’ve similarly noticed Gen Z quietly raging against the madness of the world with content that is surreal, weird and oft-uncomfortable.

At a time when history itself feels endangered — erased or rewritten by politics and AI, which obscures sources and floods the record with deepfakes — the question grows only more complex. Is an artistic director there to design clothes, or to curate a house’s legacy? Is their role to rewrite history — artificially reviving memories and parodying... See more