A young woman with her legs spread wide; buttoned-up dressed workers on a city street. Photographs like these of intimate, private scenes juxtaposed against snapshots of nameless passers-by were an early commentary on the heterogeneity of Japanese society. In 1973, Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki published
a series of image pairs showing life in Tokyo between 1969 and 1973 as a photo- graphic book. In their authenticity, these early works by Araki reveal a dysfunctional society, calling the social responsibility and moral sense of its members into question.

During the last days of Paris fashion week, Dutch design duo SCHUELLER DE WAAL present their vision on fashion in an autonomous presentation at Palais de Tokyo, Toguna. Right when the marathon of fashion weeks frenzy is coming to an end, SDW offers fashion victims or victims of fashion the opportunity of some well deserved Fashion Therapy. Model Iekeliene Stange acts as the fashion therapist, guiding the audience through ‘The Gateway To Fashion’.

Pringle of Scotland has long admired the work of illustrator Frida Wannerberger. Each season she illustrates the collection’s key looks, and we were delighted to have her back for Autumn/Winter ‘18 to illustrate our hero pieces in her own unique style.

In his exhibition Double Enclosure, Sepuya enters into a dialogue with himself as artist, his subjects and the spectator. He comments on the medium of photography as a construction of longing: the longing to record things, to look, to touch and to keep. Through a combination of draped fabric, careful framing and layered images of existing work, the viewer sees arms, thighs, torsos and hands, but rarely the whole body of the subject. In this way, the spectator is visually challenged to tease apart the construction of the image.

We buy objects – however mundane they might be – because they deliver happiness into our lives. Some collect sneakers. Some collect Pez. And some, like Jonathan Anderson, collect art. Also in the second column of Converse x JW Anderson the designer underlines his obsession with art and craft.

Struck by the timeless modernity of its design language, its effortless construction, and its balanced colour composition, it became immediately clear to Jennifer Brachmann that they wanted to create a playfully minimalist collection inspired by this architecture‘s gentle strengths, filigree contours + minimalist opulence. BRACHMANN‘s 019 summer collection takes the airy mood and organic elements of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture and transposes them into contemporary fashion.

Pop art for all. That is the ethos shared by the decade-old Swedish sock and underwear maker, Happy Socks and the late transcendent artist and cultural icon, Andy Warhol. Drawing inspiration from archival screen prints including 1964’s Flowers; Banana (1967); Dollar Sign (1961) and Cow (1966), The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts revered works can now be seen on a palette of loud, vibrant hues, in rich shades the likes of crimson red, pale pink and baby blue.

SARDIN is an environmentally innovative e-commerce platform, working with brands that are taking mindful steps towards a cleaner future. SARDIN exercises a pre-order only method of sale and production, which ensures all garments are manufactured responsibly, meeting the exact demands of the market.

There is nothing quite as powerful as the art of collaboration. Unless perhaps, it’s prescription drugs. Meet Roxy. Full name: Roxicodone. The little blue pill that you’ll never take home to mother. The opiate of choice for an adolescent prep school kid in Houston, who once moonlighted as a YouTube influencer and stylist for celebrity rappers. Preston Douglas has since gone on to become a menswear designer, outfitting the likes of Travis Scott and debuting a collection at New York Fashion Week.

No one does social convention quite like John Yuyi. The Taiwanese-born, New York-based artist is known for her custom temporary tattoos of social currency: a ‘like,’ a ‘retweet,’ a ‘match,’ a ‘follow,’ a ‘read’ receipt, the unnerving ellipses that appear just as fast as they disappear, etc. Instead of being confined to a screen, they are displayed on parts of the body for the world to see. 

Different faces and different glass shapes - an appraisal to diversity. By presenting different collections, le mile studios supports the fact that VIU eyewear can make every woman & man happy and offers unmistakably perfect shapes for every type and every face by producing single motion clips of the dimension, illusion and fusion of each collection. VIU eyewear x le mile studios will display the motion clips in their Berlin flagshipstore, during Berlin Art 018.

Concrete Objects, the ongoing project by Jobe Burns and Samuel Ross, the designer behind "A Cold Wall", and Suicoke have joined forces to launch a brutalist-inspired version of the slides KAW, one of the key silhouette of the Japanese brand, featuring mixed materials.

COS is pleased to present its Autumn Winter 2018 collection in a series by photographer Marcus Schaffer. The images exhibit a modular and innovative collection, featured on models Veronica Manavella, Bakay Diaby, Hannes Gobeyn + Michael Sharp.

Conversing with fashion illustrator and Instagram famed artist Phannapast blossoms into a larger dialogue about the relationship between fashion and art. A portfolio of multiple collaborations with Gucci, a creative studio and an DIY -approachable point of view establishes this mixed media artist as a progressive creative with a soft heart for romanticizing the details of human experience through illustration.