The Power of Female Friendship: “Derry Girls” and the Rise of Girlhood
McGee’s shows capture a reality that those seeking meaningful connections know well. Real friendship and community building demand time, empathy, and constant engagement. As we navigate life’s challenges, these stories offer both humor and a blueprint for resilience through platonic bonds.
The documentary’s most revealing moment lands at the end, when Banks announces the return of America’s Next Top Model for its 25th cycle after a five-year hiatus with her back as host. Suddenly, Reality Check feels less like reflection and more like a slick three-hour promo for the comeback of both the show and Tyra herself.
What makes the Watch Party so magnetic (contradictions and all) is the atmosphere. The closest analogy? A football stadium: a collective, visceral, shared experience where fans cheer, groan, and hold their breath together. Fashion becomes participatory again.
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.
