An in-depth conversation with Marina Yee, the Antwerp Six enigma
Almost 40 years since the group officially became known by their group monicker, the designer reminisces about this vital era and her ensuing career.
IP laws explained for designers
It’s important to know how to protect your intellectual property, but also how to avoid infringing on others, too.
How to meaningfully build a brand’s visual identity
In an era of image saturation, good branding creates a visual world that people want to enter, inhabit and return to.
Designers – get ready for mandatory DPPs
Digital Product Passports are a hot topic right now. But how do they work? And how can brands prepare?
Stefano Gallici on Leading Ann Demeulemeester Into a New Era
A conversation about creative stewardship, personal voice, and the power of subtlety.
IFM BA 2025: Clothes as Biography
These designers know what they’re doing – and more importantly, what they want to say.
Polimoda 2025: Fashion as Transmission
A class that understands fashion as language – where silhouette becomes story and craft becomes clarity.
Antwerp 2025: Craft, Concept, and Complexity
This year’s MA graduates explore fashion as autobiography, critique, and sculptural expression.
Aalto 2025: Slow Worlds, Sharp Ideas
In a noisy industry, these graduates propose quieter, stranger, and more care-driven approaches to design.
Modeklasse 2025: Reflection and Reinvention
A look inside Vienna’s graduate fashion show under the artistic direction of Craig Green.
CSM BA 2025: Cautious optimism
While some graduates sought solace in the past, others projected themselves into imagined futures.
Swedish School of Textiles 2025: Rework and Rewire
Fashion as form, system, surface and suggestion – SST’s 2025 cohort doesn’t just design garments, they rethink what clothing is for.
Westminster 2025: A philosophy of craft
An exuberance of texture, character and ideas.
The Belgian designer who mastered the art of influence without fame
Patrick Van Ommeslaeghe has quietly shaped some of the most important collections of the 21st century.
The Art of Getting It Wrong
As Modern Matter collaborate with Jun Takahashi on a project centred on a decade of its discarded pages, we chat with founder Olu Odukoya about his passion for mistakes.
Ruben Arnaldo Gollin is defending opulence
Does fashion need to appeal to the masses?
Lovro Lukić crafts Yugoslavian blankets into couture pieces
“I don’t care about your expensive, gorgeous embroidery”
Lottie Robinson is stitching worlds together
Fusing workwear and tailoring to paint a portrait of men
Wooni Jeong’s designs speak of introspection and team spirit
Can fashion put an end to its competitiveness?
Don’t forget about fashion’s dads
Dads proliferate fashion’s runways and moodboards. But how does the industry treat its working fathers?
What do Central Saint Martins BA Fashion tutors really think?
We grilled six of them about the current landscape for Fashion Design students and grads.
High Fashion Twitter: Decoding the Future of Fashion in 280 Characters
Is High Fashion Twitter the New Fashion Industry Vanguard?
Want Magnum mentorship? Tell the stories fashion ignores
Textile Exchange x Magnum Photos returns, spotlighting the people, practices, and places often left out of fashion’s frame.
The second coming of Anne Sofie Madsen
You can take 14 seasons off and come back stronger than ever. Here's what the Danish designer learnt from her time away from the fashion schedule.
Fashion may be visual, but What’s Contemporary now? asks us to listen, too
The podcast from former model agent Christopher Michael brings cultural dialogue into focus through an eclectic mix of industry voices.
Why production breaks so many independent brands
Know what you want. Articulate it clearly. Be honest when you've made mistakes... or you'll never make it past a couple seasons.
Why are we burning out?
Students are increasingly stressed, anxious, and afraid to fail. What does that mean for our creative future?
How do you deal with post-college panic and what makes a good portfolio?
"What Now?": A graduate's survival guide by the Sarabande Foundation
Daniela Riccardi: The CEO of Moleskine on female leadership and creative lateral thinking
“Big ideas start on paper”
