Strategies for Future Ready Brands (A Design Perspective)
CONVERSATION
Hideaki Shikama: World of Discordance
“It is the designer’s role to create new
bridges between global cultures.”
CONVERSATION, ART
Interview with Nana Mandl & Herbert De Colle
Nana Mandl (b. 1991) and Herbert De Colle (b. 1978) are artists based in Vienna. Nana Mandl combines digital and analog worlds through collages, embroidery and textile manipulation, offering a tactile contrast to fast-paced digital imagery. Herbert De Colle references countercultural movements flattened by pop culture into labor-intensive public installations with renewed vigor. We visited their respective studios during Vienna Art Week and continued the conversation over email.
CONVERSATION, ART
Interview with Nana Mandl & Herbert De Colle
Nana Mandl (b. 1991) and Herbert De Colle (b. 1978) are artists based in Vienna. Nana Mandl combines digital and analog worlds through collages, embroidery and textile manipulation, offering a tactile contrast to fast-paced digital imagery. Herbert De Colle references countercultural movements flattened by pop culture into labor-intensive public installations with renewed vigor. We visited their respective studios during Vienna Art Week and continued the conversation over email.
RUNWAY
Let Authenticity Set the Narrative
02.26.26
RUNWAY
The Neoliberaization of Walter Van Beirendonck
02.08.2026
CONVERSATION
Everybody Meet Simon
The Renegade Textile Master Proves Success Still Comes Through Integrity
10.22.2025
RUNWAY
If Keisuke Were French...
10.06.2025
C.P. Company:
The Metropolis Series AW25 Collection Has Arrived
Shop The Metropolis Collection
CONVERSATION
Three Questions with Akiko Aoki
SHOP
Hands On and Locked In: Kiko Kostadinov’s ASICS Novalis SEASON 3 Has Arrived
Jason Evans captures the calm and joy of tactility.
10.02.2025
PERSPECTIVE
The Rhodium Standard: Fashion’s New Best Friend
STIM Precious Metals (SPM) and Hengdi Wang bridge East and West in a spectacular collaboration.
“We’re here to define a new material culture.”
09.04.2025
PIET “Farmers League II”: a tribute to the fans
RUNWAY
Juana Martín: Viva La Virgen
08.06.2025
Urban Dictionary, May 2025
RUNWAY
A Collection That Centers Materials
07.21.2025
RUNWAY
It’s A Walter World After All
Creating a language for the future will always be more vital than clinging to a past that no longer resonates.
07.13.2025
RUNWAY
In Discordance We Trust
06.20.2025
CONVERSATION
KIKYO’s Infinite Charm
Sandra, accessory designer of the coquettishly whimsical Singaporean brand KIKYO, chats with Le Fool about comfort jewellry, SHUSHU/TONG, old magazines, coloured tights, the iconic Blair Waldorf, and seeing friends and family as the ultimate influencers. “Their lifestyle could be anything: indoor, outdoor, small or large group of friends, party or no party, makeup no makeup, introvert or extrovert. I’d love them to be content with their lives. :)”
By Miu Xia
01.17.2025
RUNWAY
Making Masculinity Cool Again
Koji Kamiya confidently builds his streetwear brand one transportation vehicle at a time
03.27.2025
RUNWAY
HENGDI WANG’s Shanghai Fashion Week Debut Imagines the Future Post-AI
Wang doesn’t hold all the answers, but the growing space the tech industry consumes, including the rapidly unsustainable takeover of artificial intelligence into our lives, is without question.
By Miu Xia
02.12.2025
RUNWAY
The Duality of Tamme
The division of a classic beige workhorse of a trench coat into a popped-collared cropped jacket and an unbuttoned skirt set the tone at Tamme.
03.28.2025
RUNWAY
KEISUKEYOSHIDA: The Savior of the Sublime
The Fashion Missionary Rescues Tokyo Fashion from a Path Gone Astray
03.25.2025
RUNWAY
Grounds Proposes a New Relationship with Gravity
03.14.2025