Slouchy boots! Rubber bags! A Timberland x Telfar collab is here

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. How do you know that fall has truly arrived in New York? It’s when you start to see Timbs on everyone’s feet. Timberland, the brand best known for its chunky platform boots, is a label synonymous…

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Twinks, shrooms and Studio54: Maxwell Vice’s fashion week photo diary

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Welcome to the Fashion Week Photo Diary, a series where local photographers document the faces, places and parties surrounding their city’s catwalk shows. “I took shrooms at a very terrible runway show that I will not…

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Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Balenciaga debut was a total eclipse of the heart

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Pierpaolo Piccioli is collecting fashion houses like infinity stones. The Italian designer saw most of the 90s out at the Roman casa Fendi, before defecting to Valentino in 1999 to oversee the accessories department with Maria…

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Addison! Rihanna! Clairo! Miss Claire Sullivan is for main characters only

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Claire Sullivan used to be self-conscious about how loud and expressive she could be, but through her work on eponymous label Miss Claire Sullivan, she’s gotten over it. The former Vaquera designer, who bowed out of…

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Rick Owens wants you to wear your birth chart like a badge of honour

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. If you’ve ever wondered if Rick Owens is an astrology man, then look no further than his most recent runway show. The American designer just debuted his SS26 women’s collection at Paris Fashion Week, and the…

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Taylor Swift has lost her grip with The Life of a Showgirl

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. When Taylor Swift appeared on her fiancĂ© Travis Kelce’s podcast to announce her 12th studio album, The Life of the Showgirl, the 35-year-old said that the record came from “the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place…

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Loewe SS26: What went down at Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez’s debut

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. After several sunny days in the French capital, the fashion crowd woke up to dreary grey skies this morning (October 3). Luckily, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez were on hand to inject some much needed colour….

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