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Til Death Do Us Party
Charli XCX, last year’s “brat summer” icon, proved with her intimate wedding that even at the altar, you can still be a party girl—and make traditions your own.
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.
Pop-Punk is Forever
Avril Lavigne’s grunge, rocker-chick aesthetic redefined what a pop star could look like, and her influence still runs through the style of today’s industry darlings.
The Perennial Gothic
Gothic romanticism becomes Gen-Z’s aesthetic dialect — all corsetry, melancholia, and sharpened silhouettes drawn from ancestral memory and cultural resistance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sara Barbanti & Carla Maiolo at Porte Rosse
From June 7–10, Porte Rosse turned a corner of San Lorenzo into a quiet ritual of form, matter, and creative exchange between Sara Barbanti and Carla Maiolo.
Femme, Not Fatal.
A look at how Gen Z’s hottest teen drama portrays the victimhood beyond the bitchiness, exposing the emotional weight of looking powerful while feeling powerless.
The Grotesque Feminine
A visceral reading of The Substance—feminist body horror that exposes how beauty, aging, and perfection feed a system built to consume women and discard them.
Prioritization Of Propaganda
Gen Z repackages propaganda as aesthetic language, blending irony, intimacy, and algorithmic culture into a new form of soft political theatre.
Hype Seats Only
Influencers now occupy a central role in the fashion week landscape, signaling a shift in cultural capital as digital proximity and audience intimacy rival traditional forms of fame and legacy.
Post-Karl, Pre-Future
Karl Lagerfeld defined much of Chanel’s modern image and aesthetic, and in his absence, the house has been forced to reframe its identity through a new creative lens.
Something Beautiful
Miley Cyrus’s Something Beautiful signals a new era of artistic freedom, blending archival fashion, emotional contrast, and genre-defiant sound into a fully realized visual statement.
Sounds like Primavera
Primavera Sound emerges as a festival where music, cultural expression, and political consciousness intersect to shape a distinct contemporary ethos.