Representing the creative future

Designers  –  Sep 2025

When fashion students take on opera

For Òh!pera in Barcelona, IED students created costumes that shifted between apocalypse and pastoral dreamscape, testing the limits of design and teamwork.

Graduate Shows  –  Sep 2025

FIT MFA 2025: Living Archives

From sarees to scars to bedtime stories, the New York graduates turn memory into garments that speak to the present.

Graduate Shows  –  Sep 2025

KADK 2025: Between Heritage and Future

From Catalonia to Transylvania to Russia, the Royal Danish Academy’s graduates transform cultural roots into contemporary expression

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.

Graduate Shows  –  Jun 2025

Antwerp 2025: Craft, Concept, and Complexity

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

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.

Graduate Shows  –  Jun 2025

Modeklasse 2025: Reflection and Reinvention

A look inside Vienna’s graduate fashion show under the artistic direction of Craig Green.

Graduate Shows  –  Jun 2025

CSM BA 2025: Cautious optimism

While some graduates sought solace in the past, others projected themselves into imagined futures.

Graduate Shows  –  Jun 2025

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.