“I think fashion is in a funny state,” said Blazy. “It grew very, very fast over the last years, post pandemic, and it kind of hit a ceiling. I think now what fashion needs to do is to rethink its own model, but not just when it comes to design. We’ve seen some houses exploding, we’ve seen some houses collapsing. What needs to be done is a deep... See more

An invigorating mass of small and independent brands, which aren’t constrained by public ownership, are rejecting corporate operations in favour of slower, localised, and intentional fashion production. They’re reconfiguring what is meant by the word “success” as they go. There’s so much creative potential when the pressure to exponentially expand... See more

Two years into an industry-wide slowdown from which the path forward for fashion remains unclear, “the past becomes a refuge, full of mirages we can turn to paper over the present,” observes Didier Barroso, Parisian gallery owner and director of the vintage boutique Plaisir Palace.