What exactly does a woman wear when nobody is watching? For Yuhan Wang, the answer might be three pairs of underwear at once. Or lace stockings with boxer shorts. Perhaps a striped polo thrown over lingerie, jewellery half-removed and caught in your clothes, or a tiny tea set strapped around your waist. For Spring/Summer 2027, Wang takes us somewhere fashion isn't usually invited: the bedroom with the door firmly closed. Titled Sweet Nightmare, the collection explores the different selves...

There is an expectation attached to what power should look like. In fashion, and particularly for women in positions of authority, it has often meant the suit: shoulders sharpened, body contained, sensuality exchanged for seriousness. Mowalola Ogunlesi has little interest in playing along. “I’m running my company, and I wouldn’t dress like a ‘CEO’,” she says in the notes accompanying The Hunger, her Spring/Summer 2027 collection. Instead, Mowalola proposes another possibility: what if...

At 23, Aida Maralian is building a luxury footwear label from something far older than herself. Rooted in Armenian memory, ancient craft and the stories passed between generations, Koshik asks what it means to carry the past without becoming trapped by it. Legend says that Armenia’s Areni Cave reveals its gifts only to those who enter with a pure heart. For Aida Maralian, that story has become part of a much larger one. The cave is home to the Areni-1 shoe, the world’s oldest known leather...