‘We have to take this moment’: Meet Fashion East’s new class of 2025

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This season marks 25 years of Fashion East, the London talent incubator that helped launch the careers of fashion designers we all know and love. The programme has fostered a new generation of talents that continue…

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Oscar Ouyang: ‘I didn’t get warned how tough the fashion industry is’

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Earlier this summer, when London designers first found out what slot they’d been given on the SS26 schedule, knitwear designer Oscar Ouyang was nervous to discover he’d be making his London Fashion Week debut with a…

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What went down at Sprayground’s London Fashion Week debut

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. London Fashion Week’s SS26 season opened with a bang yesterday evening (September 18) – complete with giant gold confetti canons – as cult New York streetwear label Sprayground celebrated its 15th anniversary in the UK capital. …

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‘I want there to be a classicism to it’: A first look at Aaron Esh SS26

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. When I arrive at Aaron Esh’s East London studio, the scene is just what you’d expect three days out from a fashion show. It’s all unfolding upstairs at the Sarabande Foundation in Haggerston, the creative organisation…

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What’s going on with d4vd? Everything we know so far

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. On September 8, the body of a teenage girl was discovered in an impounded Tesla registered to artist d4vd (birth name David Anthony Burke). The Los Angeles county medical examiner’s office confirmed on September 16 that…

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