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Browsing Imperfection

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Fashion

Prada excavates the past to shape menswear’s future

Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada’s autumn/winter 2026 menswear collection presented at Fondazione Prada in Milan, Italy, was an exercise in layered archaeology.

Department Of founder Gia Seo in her maximalist apartment in Brooklyn, New York. Photography by Max B Photo, US
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Marketing & Branding

Curated Clutter

Culture is experiencing a move from clean to cluttered, but this consumer shift is not just about aesthetics.

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Marketing & Branding

Intro-spectrum

A new wave of designers are exploring subdued narratives, embracing a spectrum of grey undertones, highly expressive graphics and layering surfaces to find a visual language that captures emotional complexity.

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Marketing & Branding

Preview: Anti-diet mentality

Global – Brands are ditching the word ‘diet’ and prioritising achievable personal improvement over perfection.

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Signals

A raw approach

Kuwait – Mexican creative agency Futura has created a bold brand style for sushi bar Raw, inspired by the classic Japanese aesthetics of minimalism and perfect imperfection.

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Marketing & Branding

Wabi Sabi

Notions of transience and imperfection, which dominate Japanese aesthetic tradition, are giving rise to a new design direction in packaging that challenges perceptions of beauty with highly tactile, rough and raw surfaces and expressive, unpolished mark-making.

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Fashion

Skin-sensual

Designers across a range of disciplines are drawing inspiration from the sensual and irregular qualities of the natural human form.

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Fashion

Strange beauty: Clothing label revels in flaws

Lithuania – Egle Ziemyte thinks that flaws are beautiful. That is the basis of her clothing label, D.Efect, which celebrates defects as signs of individuality.

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Beauty

Feral Grace

Beauty is going back to basics and embracing nature in its purest form. Think all things wild, feral and unkempt.