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Dior’s New Puzzle Pieces

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Jonathan Anderson’s first Dior Cruise collection takes to L.A. Bright lights, big city. Film is everywhere. Christian Dior dressed Marlene Dietrich for Alfred Hitchcock’s Stage Fright in 1950. “No Dior,…

Trend: Jazz Age Redux

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A century after the Roaring Twenties, jazz is back in fashion, in both senses of the word. The music is attracting new listeners. Its visual codes, from sharp tailoring to…

Van Cleef & Arpels: Lucky in Pink

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Some jewellery designs need little introduction. Alhambra is one of them. Introduced by Van Cleef & Arpels in 1968, its four-lobed shape resembles a four-leaf clover, a symbol of good…

GLUE Amsterdam 7

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Now in its seventh edition, GLUE Amsterdam brings brands, designers and artists together at locations across the city. Amsterdam is a logical setting. The Monitor Creatieve Industrie 2025 identifies the…

Fragrance Notes: Première Peau

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The shape immediately caught my eye. Suspended within the outer layer of hand-blown glass sits a rounded form inspired by the traditional Chinese hulu, a double-gourd shape associated for centuries…

Sézane: Autumn Highlights

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Sézane is back in Amsterdam with its new autumn wardrobe, presented in a canal house. This season, the familiar romance is expressed through fuller silhouettes: wider trousers, generous knitwear and…

CHANGE in De Kring: One Night, One Poster

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No two CHANGE posters look alike. A pair of penguins, a spinning record, vintage dance photography: between 2012 and 2017, each CHANGE dance night at Amsterdam’s De Kring came with…

Bottega Veneta: A Masterclass in Texture

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Silk that looks like fur. Leather woven into fringe. Long fibres turned into something that looks almost impossible not to touch. Things are not always what they seem at Bottega…

Maison Margiela Replica Lazy Sunday Morning

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The Parisian breakfast has travelled far beyond France. Coffee, a croissant and white porcelain have become cultural symbols, appearing as often in fashion editorials as they do on café tables.…

Tess van Zalinge: The Archive Show

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During Amsterdam Fashion Week, the fashion crowd travels west to Brightfiber Textiles, where discarded clothing is recycled into new textiles on an industrial scale. Compressed bales of clothing and textiles,…
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