Representing the creative future

Graduate Shows  –  Jun 2025

IFM BA 2025: Clothes as Biography

These designers know what they’re doing – and more importantly, what they want to say.

Schools  –  Jun 2025

Polimoda 2025: Fashion as Transmission

A class that understands fashion as language – where silhouette becomes story and craft becomes clarity.

Miscellaneous  –  Jun 2025

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.

Graduate Shows  –  Jun 2025

Antwerp 2025: Craft, Concept, and Complexity

This year’s MA graduates explore fashion as autobiography, critique, and sculptural expression.

Miscellaneous  –  Jun 2025

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.

Graduate Shows  –  Jun 2025

Aalto 2025: Slow Worlds, Sharp Ideas

In a noisy industry, these graduates propose quieter, stranger, and more care-driven approaches to design.

Graduate Shows  –  Jun 2025

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.

Graduate Shows  –  Jun 2025

Westminster 2025: A philosophy of craft

An exuberance of texture, character and ideas.

Miscellaneous  –  Jun 2025

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?

Interviews  –  Jun 2025

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.

Miscellaneous  –  Jun 2025

What we learned at the CPHFW x V&A talk

The event focused on future of the industry, how to nurture talent, and diversifying the system.

Interviews  –  Jun 2025

Stefano Gallici on Leading Ann Demeulemeester Into a New Era

A conversation about creative stewardship, personal voice, and the power of subtlety.