Build a strong financial foundation to your brand, or the rest is pointless
Many designers believe budgeting constrains creativity. In reality, strong financial control is what makes sustained creativity possible.
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.
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.
Antwerp 2025: Craft, Concept, and Complexity
This year’s MA graduates explore fashion as autobiography, critique, and sculptural expression.
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.
Aalto 2025: Slow Worlds, Sharp Ideas
In a noisy industry, these graduates propose quieter, stranger, and more care-driven approaches to design.
La Cambre 2025: Small Cohort, Strong Voice
In a program known for its intimacy and rigour, four designers present work that pushes both form and meaning.
Westminster 2025: A philosophy of craft
An exuberance of texture, character and ideas.
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?
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.
