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The rough erotics of male body hair
Body hair exists, but fashion rarely lets it show. Despite the bohemian male aesthetic that creative directors have spent years constructing, the imagery they actually put on stage is overwhelmingly...
From streetwear to snobwear, the return of Fordian sex, according to Demna
From Los Angeles streetwear roots to a new snobwear elite: Demna reignites Ford-era sensuality while Paris collections respond with their own visions of post-Slimane luxury
Apology of a complication: I love you because you are complicated
Humans crave complexity, simplicity is boring and mystery is exciting – from love to machines, from cars to watches, we never look for what everybody can have Cover image: Tomás...
Rosie Ellis’ The Boyfriend Casting: photographing boyfriends, sex and obsession
From pillow talk to photographic archive: inside Rosie Ellis’ The Boyfriend Casting photobook, where sex, intimacy and the female gaze reshape how men’s bodies are seen and recorded in images
Ben Shattuck: The History of Sound from Edison’s miracle to Hotmail sadness
From the first recorded voice to the last forgotten inbox: Shattuck’s world is built on artifacts with charge. The digital leaves traces, not relics—and grief doesn’t live in a timeline
Robyn’s new album Sexistential: the purpose of my life is to stay horny
Robyn spent years searching outward. Sexistential is what happened when she crashed back into herself — desire, IVF, single motherhood, and a thesis about staying horny as a life philosophy
Beyond the macho and the ‘spicy Latina’: Latin American fashion today
From Andean textiles at Milan Fashion Week to reggaeton’s global aesthetics, Latin American fashion moves beyond folklore — blending indigenous craft, diaspora identity and pop culture
Human bodies: the illusion of inclusion
Naked, not free: what Elska Magazine reveals about racism, ageism, and exclusion in the gay community. Photographer Liam Campbell maps the world through gay men
Fashion and Power: How the Creative Director replaced the Designer
“Fashion is not dead. It is a creeping paralysis.” From bodies on the runway to billions in revenue, today’s creative director is a multitasking human brand selling views as much...
God Save the Ballet! Praise to McGregor, Maillot and Naharin at La Scala
Teatro alla Scala, maybe the primary theater in the world, stages three choreographies that make a case for contemporary dance's continued relevance
White socks, dirty thoughts. Do you smell, lick, or look?
From pulled-up socks in high fashion editorials to sweaty gym floors, the male white sock has evolved into a fetish-soft icon, marking subtle eroticism and personal desire
The Oscars and the Fashion industry: the most respected actors avoid being branded
Fashion ambassadorships, celebrity stylists and the red carpet economy: how Hollywood actors manage image, credibility and visibility within an industry built on alignment
Waiting for the Oscars: before Hamlet, there was a child named Hamnet
Chloé Zhao adapts Maggie O’Farrell’s novel into a meditation on grief and theatre, returning to the death of Shakespeare’s son — the private loss often linked to the birth of...
Louis Vuitton: can creativity exceed financial power?
Louis Vuitton embodies financial and branding power. Yet with Nicolas Ghesquière’s FW26 womenswear, the question returns: can creativity remain central inside a luxury empire of such scale?
Hermès: how the quietest house became the loudest name in luxury
Hermès and the re-definition of quiet luxury – the show proves why restraint remains the most powerful force in fashion
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
Balenciaga – is the couturier still alive?
Pierpaolo Piccioli arrives at Balenciaga without erasing Demna. Between Cristóbal’s legacy, Ozempic silhouettes and Euphoria references, Piccioli sits somewhere near the definition of couturier
Recycled fiberglass leads Trotter’s first Bottega chapter
Louise Trotter introduces recycled fiberglass as a material language at Bottega Veneta. Milan's Brutalist architecture provides the reference; Veneto craft anchors the construction
Female self-censorship: notes on female rage
The female body is freer than ever before, yet it’s never been as monitored as now. The runway offers options, the network decides what counts
About Antonin Tron at Balmain: can craft survive the celebrity crush?
Who is Antonin Tron at Balmain? From couture roots to social media empire, Balmain’s history, financial data and Rousteing’s legacy set the stage for a material-first vision
Jonathan Anderson and the Power at Dior: creativity, merchandising and celebrity crush
Between atelier discipline and graphic t-shirts, from cinephile obsession to the collective wardrobe: JW Anderson converts film into product; and celebrities into a distribution channel for couture
Fashion needs authorship above all! Gucci and those sexy brands that are movie producers
As fashion brands invest in cinema, the question is no longer communication vs. marketing, but where authorship is produced and allowed to outlast the runway cycle
Chiuri leaves Paris behind: Fendi between Rome and milanese order
From Dior to Fendi, Chiuri dismantles the theater of haute couture and shifts the axis from Paris to Italy, balancing Rome’s legacy with Milan’s discipline
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
Is it a fashion show or just some showbiz power?
With over 300 brands across New York, London, Milan and Paris—and $1.2B in MIV generated by Paris alone—runways now compete for cultural impact, celebrity reach and digital dominance
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
Hot & Sporty, the uniform makers: Ralph Lauren and the Olympic Journey
After ten Olympic Games, Ralph Lauren combines design and Made-in-USA production to release a relaxed Team USA wardrobe that recalls countless sporty hotties
It’s just a t-shirt: from Westwood to rebellion, politics, sex, irony
The T-shirt has never been innocent. Westwood made it a weapon, later designers polished it into branding, and today it balances history, humor and activism
Do you still want gossip? We talk about stainless steel cigarette holders
A wall fitted with steel holders marks out a small sanctuary for gossip: Chisme Corner by Ananas Ananas shows how durable materials can contain forms of speech
Daniel Kolodziejczak: I design the way an engineer might
Nothing hidden, no decoration that conceals the system - Daniel Kolodziejczak: a designer translating structure into marble, wood, geometry
Pillion: BDSM & Kinky Sex – why do you want to dominate me?
Harry Lighton’s Pillion frames kink as emotional architecture, using BDSM rituals, negotiated power exchange, and consent culture to interrogate contemporary relationship models
Sweat and rivalry: what happen when male bodies get too close
Locker rooms, showers and other discreet architectures have shaped male desire through rivalry, discipline and enforced proximity, from American art and cinema to photography and fashion
What does the RCTA term mean on TikTok?
RCTA (Race Change To Another) is both a popular term and a trend that has gone viral on social media platforms, like TikTok. What does RCTA mean?
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...
Reframing desire through vintage erotic magazines: Jürgen Maelfeyt
An exploration of how 70s and 80s vintage erotic magazines shaped the visual language of intimacy, fragmentation, and sensual ambiguity in Maelfeyt’s trilogy
Is Valentino Couture about desire – or about voyeurism and denial?
One hole in the wall, many readings: Alessandro Michele’s Valentino couture show becomes a device of voyeurism, a controlled fashion spectacle where desire is visible, regulated, and denied
Matthieu Blazy and Couture as an exercise of power
Between strategic caution and craftsmanship as content, Matthieu Blazy’s first Haute Couture uses Couture as an instrument of control, rather than a space for creative assertion
Jonathan Anderson, Dior, and the British Cultural Scratch
Dissidence, irony, and controlled provocation. This is the British contribution to a house that more than any other embodies wealth, heritage, and symbolic power
Zegna, district, manufacturing: is this the only story we need?
It is not fashion. It is work. The “well made,” the cloth that stays in the wardrobe: the Zegna method and what Northern Italian enterprise still teaches
To Love Milan, We Still Need Armani
We need to insist on what Milan looks like. The city’s palette is gray, never flat, altered by rain. Armani, today under the direction of Leo Dell’Orco, remains the clearest...
It’s Prada, Prada again, always Prada. Why are we so obsessed? It’s that sense of balance
In fashion, obsession means Prada. How does Miuccia Prada, also in dialogue with Raf Simons’ cool detachment, continue to rediscover—and redefine—the identity of Milan?
SA SU PHI: Italian knitwear built on proportion and purity
Brainchild of Sara Ferrero and of art director Susanna Cucco, an introduction to SA SU PHI: three-dimensional volumes, a balance of full and void
Canapa N318 Eau de Parfum: a collaboration between Lampoon and LabSolue
Ambra Martone presents Canapa N318 Eau de Parfum, a fragrance that brings hemp back to the center of contemporary olfactory creation
Balkan Aesthetics: the last frontier of authenticity?
From contemporary art and social media to bunker bars and stucco columns, Balkan aesthetics offer an antidote to globalized smoothness: Alterazioni Video’s Olbania and Šejla Kamerić’s Bosnian Girl
Holy water in plastic bottles: Crossover, Anastasia Sosunova and the crisis of belonging
A mass-produced white sock becomes a relic after touching Orthodox martyrs: artist Anastasia Sosunova and curator Chiara Nuzzi discuss fake faith and belief systems in Crossover at Fondazione ICA Milano
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...
