“Lovina: depicted” is a collaboration between fashion designer Merilin Kolk and photographer Cecilia Riis that explores the ambivalence in Kolk’s BA Graduation Collection. Her BA Graduation Collection challenges the sexualization of the female body by covering it. The collection attempts to explore the identity of covered women in our time.

An explosion of creative energy; this is the lifeblood running through the Moncler Genius project, a new multi-faceted chapter for the brand combining a variety of contributions which coexist alongside one another, creating a mosaic of differences and extraordinary individuality. These varied voices and approaches, some of which differ vastly from each other, are combined with highly distinctive languages, all brought together in a single design process conceived by Moncler.

The 61st edition of DOK Leipzig is set to kick off on 29 October. This year’s festival features films that depict transformational processes or aim to spark change, honours Austrian documentary filmmaker Ruth Beckermann and living legend Werner Herzog, provides exciting insight into Lithuania’s film scene in the Country Focus and showcases the cinematic work of Leipzig artist Lutz Dammbeck.

For Fall 2018, the Anna October lady is at ease with herself. Her natural manners, along with the grace of her body and mind lustre her clothes. She wears them proudly. Whatever landscape shefinds herself in, it’s her inner landscape that matters. She looks rich as a Capote’s swan, confident asan American feminist artist, feminine as a Parisian demimonde, at the days when women spent hours in the dressing room.

Aman announces the launch of a skincare collection, made bespoke for the brand, which not only embodies and celebrates, but is also inspired by its constellation of hotels and resorts. Introducing a collection of 30 products on the occasion of the brands 30th anniversary, Aman Skincare has been formulated using an exotic roll-call of natural, rare and precious ingredients, many of which have been wild-harvested in various Aman destinations. 

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’.

Burberry today revealed that it will be launching monthly product releases on the 17th day of every month, as part of its plans to excite customers with new deliveries and frequent communication.

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.

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.