I asked Oliver Zahm

"One artist said something like: ‘Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us.’ And Godard: ‘Culture is the rule; art is the exception, and the rule wants the death of the exception.’My choice is to try to preserve the exception as a pulsating possibility of change."

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Matières Fécales | Fall 2026 Ready-to-Wear

Held at the Palais Brongniart, Napoleon’s former stock exchange, the Matières Fécales show struck me as being very directly linked to the idea of financial power, as if everything you... Read more...

Alexandra Sipa’s “It Is What It Is” for A/W 26

The show features 15 looks, each an ecosystem of feelings and moods conceptually translated through the seasons, so how could it have opened with anything other than autumn? Read more...

Bravo, Marrakech: The City That Gave Yves Saint Laurent Color 

Elsewhere, style is a contest, a parade of price tags and peacocks. In Marrakech, style is the air. It is impossible to spend time here without understanding why Yves Saint... Read more...

‘Intimate Hours’ - Masha Popova Autumn / Winter ‘26

Intimate Hours lingers in the slow light before morning, when identity feels fluid, form is still undecided, and the outside world has yet to intervene. Read more...

ERDEM: Autumn Winter 2026

Erdem’s twentieth anniversary collection, “The Imaginary Conversation,” forgoes spectacle for introspection. The show revisits signature silhouettes and house muses, updating familiar designs for today. Read more...

On starting somewhere

Here's what no one tells you about being born at the wrong time: you spend your life mourning things you never had. Read more...

A Dream Girl's Le Baiser

"In the beginning, I used to think that if you just had incredible talent and a beautiful product, everything else would magically fall into place. I believed that the work would simply speak for itself and the right people would notice.I don’t believe that anymore"