Category: Fashion
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Who Gets to Look? Alice Diop, Miu Miu and the Art of Consolation
At Art Basel Paris 2026, French filmmaker Alice Diop brought together photography, cinema, sculpture, literature and performance in an extraordinary examination of Black female creativity. Presented by Miu Miu, Geste de Consolation proposed that confronting the violence of art history might also create the possibility of repair. Between 21 and 25 October 2026, the great…
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The Customer Who Stopped Saving Up
Luxury has always depended on people who wanted what they could not afford. But what happens when the wealthy cease to be admired, the performance of perfect lives becomes tiresome, and the people who once aspired to luxury begin to question the value of the aspiration itself? The black lambskin Chanel Classic 11.12 currently costs…
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FAIRYLAND: TIM WALKER AND THE POLITICS OF BEING SEEN
At London’s National Portrait Gallery, the photographer who transformed fashion into elaborate theatre turns his imagination towards queer history. With some 250 portraits spanning activists, artists, performers and cultural pioneers, Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends is at once a celebration of difference, an examination of historical visibility and a deeply personal reconsideration of the…
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Room to Move: Issey Miyake’s Spring/Summer 2027 Collection
With Figure of Ma, Satoshi Kondo gives the space between body and cloth an eloquent, exuberant form. A fashion collection becomes especially compelling when its ideas can be understood through the clothes themselves. Satoshi Kondo’s Spring/Summer 2027 collection for Issey Miyake, presented at the Dojo de Paris on 2 October 2026, has precisely that quality.…
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The 90s at Tate Britain: Art, Fashion and the Politics of Belonging
The 1990s have become unusually easy to recognise and increasingly difficult to remember in their complexity. Kate Moss, a slip dress, a warehouse party, a shark suspended in formaldehyde: the decade survives through images whose familiarity can conceal the circumstances that produced them. Tate Britain’s new exhibition, The 90s: Art and Fashion, brings this visual…
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Jonathan Anderson: The Intelligent Disruptor
How a boy from Northern Ireland transformed Loewe, dismantled the boundaries between fashion and culture, and arrived at Dior with more creative power than any designer since Christian Dior himself By Bergotte Fashion periodically decides that one designer matters more than everybody else. The reasons are never entirely aesthetic. A designer becomes important because he…
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Why Gen Z Looks So Badly Dressed to Gen X
Taste, Technology and What Happened to the Individual Eye I think About This A Lot… by Birgitte Hahn-Etc There comes a point in middle age when one catches oneself looking at a group of twenty-somethings and thinking something one had promised never to think: Why are they all dressed like that? This is treacherous territory.…
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In Memoriam – Bob Mackie
The Sultan of Sequins Bob Mackie, who died on 14 September 2026 at the age of eighty-seven, dressed the century’s most luminous performers in the most theatrical clothes ever made for a body. He understood, better than almost anyone in the history of costume, that a great dress was not decoration but transformation — that…
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John Galliano: The Theatre And The Ruin
The cancelled Metropolitan Museum retrospective has reopened one of fashion’s most difficult questions: what should history do with an artist whose creative achievement is inseparable from an act of profound disgrace? By Bergotte The Metropolitan Museum of Art did not merely cancel an exhibition when it abandoned John Galliano: Horizons, the major retrospective that had…
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See Something – Irving Penn 2026
The Passenger is a weekly dispatch on travel — places, hotels, restaurants, the strange logistics of being elsewhere. See Something Irving Penn is everywhere in 2026. Three cities, three exhibitions, and the case for making a trip specifically to see him Irving Penn directed his models with two words. Not an expression — he was…
