Melis Ozek
Veronica Leoni at Calvin Klein: sexitude and the narcissistic kink
The first woman to lead Calvin Klein Collection in sixty years, Veronica Leoni is rebuilding the source code, relocating desire from the camera's gaze to the architecture of the dressed...
Between me and my Calvins: are we still so horny?
To say "it's so Calvin" is a way of saying you are looking at someone undressed and being made to want it — and that the wanting is the point
Pride and the market: when activism becomes a product line
From Stonewall to the seasonal capsule collection, corporate Pride branding has transformed queer politics into a purchasable identity — the fashion industry, from Loewe to Saint Laurent, is still negotiating...
The Nightclub Crisis: we dressed to get laid – now we swipe
Once the outfit was the search query and the door was the filter - now the algorithm sorts desire, and the club uniform survives only as a costume to photograph....
Smell reaches the brain before you think. Olfactory Signals builds on that
OS.03 opens at 10 Corso Como on June 4: thirty-plus makers, a rooftop by Sissel Tolaas and Octave Perrault, and a program that treats the olfactory pathway as a medium...
Ānti: perfume begins with sweat and salt – not flowers
While presenting the fragrance Paura dell’Acqua, the founders of Ānti took us through the chronology of the brand, from the Egyptian “sweat of the gods” to plague-era opulence – how...
Martin Margiela at the Kudan House: between the historic cedar and the void
Martin Margiela marks his first large-scale solo exhibition in Japan by treating a 1927 heritage residence as a site of memory and disappearance – a graft of Spanish Colonial Revival...
CAN Art Fair Madrid at ten: from urban art to a broader contemporary field
At Matadero, over 50 galleries and new sections such as CAN Design marked a shift from street-rooted practices toward a cross-disciplinary programme spanning art, design, and architecture
Temple & Chapon: Phantom Relics in Neo-Gothic Flesh
Dining at Temple & Chapon unfolds as a neo-Gothic reverie in the Marais, where mid-century Manhattan grit meets ecclesiastical hush, turning every meal into a wanderer's relic-strewn pause
Kiko Kostadinov FW26 at Paris Fashion Week: Japanese denim and the Bulgarian diaspora
Laura and Deanna Fanning present Kiko Kostadinov Fall Winter 2026 womenswear through architectural tailoring, urban plumage textures, and the observer–observed dynamic
How do I like your saliva? It’s all over my tongue
From kisses to couture, fashion reclaims intimacy as cultural value: touch and human connection drive campaigns and collections from Moncler to Prada, Dior, and Rick Owens
We Are All Intellectuals Now: The Condom as Artistic Fetish
From Olympic distribution and public health campaigns to museum collections and fashion collaborations, condoms are the epitome of a recurring provocation
90s revisited: nostalgia for dirt, desire, and irreverent fornication
Why 1990s and Early 2000s Nostalgia Still Shapes Fashion and Culture? The decade that promised endless growth, liberal optimism, and global stability has become the default reference point for the...
Feminine literacy, when the feminine is methodology
Feminine literacy looks at design from a different angle. It listens to voices and places that are ignored and asks how we can create things that care for people, nature...
Why do we keep dating men? Heterofatalism and straight desire
An exploration of the absurd paradox at the heart of straight dating: we know the system is broken, we expect disappointment, yet desire refuses to die – turning heterofatalism into...
Sam Sala introduces Diathomee: sound and video from microscopic algae
Drawing from diatom microscopy and field recordings, Sam Sala’s Diathomee translates the microscopic scale into a visceral audiovisual language
