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Art Corner: Michael O’Guinn | COALESCE
COALESCE brings together Michael O’Guinn’s punk-inflected abstraction through visceral mark-making, emotional tension, and charged, tactile surfaces.
All Gucci?
Tom Ford’s mid-nineties creative direction transformed Gucci from near insolvency to a three-billion-dollar juggernaut by fusing unapologetic sensuality with razor-sharp business instincts.
The Perennial Gothic
Gothic romanticism becomes Gen-Z’s aesthetic dialect — all corsetry, melancholia, and sharpened silhouettes drawn from ancestral memory and cultural resistance.
Fashion's New Religion
Religious iconography undergoes a cultural reawakening as ritual and symbolism become aesthetic language in fashion and film.
Worshipping The Idol
The Idol’s costume design captures pop stardom through body-conscious silhouettes and fetish-leaning styling, casting appearance as both armor and spectacle under industry gaze.
The Wake Up Call
As loungewear enters public space, fashion reconsiders the boundaries of propriety, ease, and embodied expression.
Stolen Valour?
Considering the recent SKIMS’ fake nipple piercing bra, bespoke temporary tattoos and the Indie Sleaze revival amid a generation where drinking is at an all-time low, where does rebellion sit now?
Dark Coquette Summer Collection
Markarian’s 2026 resort collection plays a dark romantic twist on a summer vacation, framing hyper-femininity through a lens of melancholy, restraint, and aesthetic tension.
Dating Yourself
In the quiet aftermath of heartbreak, a week of self-dates becomes a tender ritual of reinvention—marked by outfit shifts, solo rituals, and small indulgences that signal a slow return to self.
Beauteous Deca(y)dence
Koen Hauser’s Amethyst reflects on how the nature of things shifts before our eyes—when youth wrinkles into age, freshness into cynicism, and beauty into decay.
Pretty When You Cry
Petra Collins constructs a visual dialect of femininity and surveillance, styling vulnerability through hyperfeminine codes that both seduce and unsettle.
WIEIAD: This Is Me
What I Eat In a Day, once framed by diet culture, has evolved into a digital ritual where eating becomes a lens for self-staging and identity display.
Make Music Horny Again
Horny is less a feeling than a cultural fault line, as male-directed desire is framed as cinematic while female sexual agency remains either mocked, moralised, or made palatable through irony.
Old Navy Gets Active
With the recent release of Old Navy’s activewear campaign entitled “Old Navy, New Moves,” the brand makes headway in melding past media references with modern talent, thus causing a breakthrough in their Q1 earnings.
Oasis x Adidas
Oasis x Adidas distills the raw energy of 90s rebellion into a sharp homage—fusing music and fashion into a cultural echo that still resonates.
SuperAurora Festival 2025
This year’s SuperAurora Festival cemented its place as one of Italy’s biggest music events, with a stacked, tightly curated lineup ranging from Carl Cox and Meduza to Noyz Narcos, Mace, and Murubutu.
Shifting Focuses
Gaeta Jazz Festival reclaims live music as presence over spectacle, offering a sensory, collective experience where jazz becomes a language for connection and cultural renewal.
Dreams, Raes and Beams
From TikTok to Wembley, Addison Rae trades swipe-ups for spotlights—joining Lana Del Rey on stage and in spirit, in a rebrand that’s equal parts pop, polish, and pure ambition.
Gym at 5, Date at 7
Athleisure meets high fashion as utility silhouettes, tonal layering, and off-duty polish recast the rhythm of all-day dressing.
The Office Is Calling
Gen Z enters the workforce in soft tailoring, tonal palettes, and officewear codes recast with subtle rebellion.