Whilst research institutes and the teams organising trade fairs are already promoting the new trends for spring/summer 2028, the calendar has become an increasingly fluid concept – if it can be called that – to the extent that one might wonder whether the seasonal division of the fashion industry still makes sense

Right up until the 1990s, a particular fabric was the key element of a collection. The choice of one fabric over another represented an aesthetic manifesto or, as we say now – unfortunately, sometimes to describe nothing at all – a ‘statement’. Today, however, it is fragmentation that dominates fashion, in both forms and materials

The film "Wicker" transforms a "basket of a husband" into an object of desire and a source of style inspiration, somewhere between Gianfranco Ferré and the (dangerous) temptation to turn every summery suggestion into a mood board

Collections increasingly crammed with citations and references are fuelling the hunt for plagiarism on social media. But the real risk is confusing a detail with an entire vision