Less Thinking, More Doing: Anna Kuen on Ambition, Autonomy, & Building Rooms for Imagination
In this intimate interview, Anna Kuen reflects on ambition, autonomy, motherhood, and the discipline behind building immersive worlds across art, music, and fashion. A portrait of a contemporary artist choosing depth over spectacle and action over overthinking.
For our February Cover story, we explore beauty that doesn’t perform, filter, or fight for attention. This editorial reframes elegance as presence: soft, unguarded, and entirely undeniable.
Valentine’s Day spending is set to hit $29.1 billion, even as modern relationships feel more uncertain than ever. From Wuthering Heights–style passion to dating apps and late-stage capitalism, love today is as political and commercial as it is romantic.
At Berlin Fashion Week, designer Laura Gerte unpacks the power of the female villain through her AW26 collection Deviant Defiant, where autonomy, desire, and defiance take center stage. In this interview, Gerte reflects on mythology, ageing, unapologetic femininity, and why women who refuse control are still framed as dangerous.
From a small town in Northern Ireland to Berlin Fashion Week, Luke Rainey turned skate culture, queerness, and resilience into DAGGER’s AW26 Play Hard collection. Rooted in “all the best,” the show proves survival can be a style statement.
RETURN TO SENDER 12 marks BUZIGAHILL's return to Berlin and reclaims control over the flow of second-hand clothing. Through upcycling, BUZIGAHILL asserts Uganda’s role as an active producer in global fashion.
Ultimately, it reinforces the sense that Marty Supreme is less concerned with coherence or period accuracy than with high-intensity entertainment — a good old-fashioned movie above all else.
For our January Digital Cover, we escape to the quiet fields of the Italian countryside, where winter lingers softly, and fashion meets stillness. In a season defined by waiting, this editorial captures the beauty of pause: romantic, melancholic, and poised on the edge of what comes next.
The dark atmospheres of Gothic literature and the Gothic Revival have profoundly influenced the arts, from fantasy literature to horror films. These fashion collections have beautifully reimagined these elements, mixing ethereal fabrics, dark touches, and bold visual contrasts.
Food is not just sustenance. It reflects our traditions, health and socio-economic conditions. Throughout history, art has captured this intricate relationship, which is now reflected by how we portray food on social media.
