The fashion industry gains new capital, but loses control over its own symbolic order. What looks like sponsorship shifts the question of who still gets to confer cultural status.
Off-White was once the most visible symbol of a fashion fed by streetwear, art, and luxury. Today, the brand feels less like a pace-setter and more like a relic of an already completed cycle. Its...
The major fashion houses are changing their creative directors at ever shorter intervals. What appears to be instability follows a clear logic. Design today is less a matter of authorship than a...
On social networks, millions of followers are considered a sign of influence. In the international modeling industry, however, they mean above all one thing: visibility without structural power...
Great names do not disappear with their creators. As brands and companies, they endure and often reach their most profitable phase only afterward. Yet it is in this phase that the loss of what once...