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Listening Room / Music at the Edge
Music | Spotlight
The liminal zones between collapse and transformation, ritual and noise, beauty and decay. Whether through meditative erosions, or glitch-drenched liturgies, the music featured in this edition is united by its commitment to disobedience, its resistance to order, and its ability to turn rupture into revelation. In this edition: Ulver, Kashaiof, The Pleasure Majenta, Gertie Adelaide.

The Antihero / Tamta
Music | Interview
All about "The Villain Heroine", the bold new album from electro-pop, fashion, and queer icon Tamta.
Here in a fashion story inspired by her latest two projects that merges the expected qualities of each archetype into one.

Beyond Basics / Mens Eroticwear by Anoeses
Fashion | Spotlight
Anoeses turns a new page with Beyond Basics. A men’s collection stripped to its core: clean lines, high quality, effortless seduction. Pieces made to move: from home to night, from quiet to wild.

Intersection of Chaos / Inside the World of Lady Tazz
Music | Interview
Born in Montreal, raised in Dhaka, and shaped by Toronto’s underground, Lady Tazz has lived more lives than most artists ever dare to. Her presence is deliberate, and her sets are defined by speed, sensuality, and control. She founded Mind Medizin as a platform for artists who challenge the conventions of the electronic music industry, a space for sound that is stripped-back, forceful, and unconcerned with mainstream appeal. Lady Tazz approaches music with intent, and everything she builds is made to last.

Fragments of the Self / Francois X
Music | Interview
In a time where identity is often packaged, flattened, and made palatable for algorithmic feeds, François X resists easy definition. Born between Corsica and Benin, shaped by sounds that stretch from the vinyl stacks of Fania Records to the raw pulse of Parisian club nights, his music is neither fusion nor collage. It’s something more elemental, a process of remembering, returning, resisting.

Glenn Martens’ debut at Maison Margiela
Fashion | Spotlight
For his debut at the helm of Maison Margiela, Glenn Martens stages a ghostly procession inside crumbling walls. Between echoes of Martin Margiela’s legacy and the romantic dissonance of John Galliano’s spectacle, Martens delivers a couture collection that is both deeply autobiographical and politically charged.

Past-self
Fashion | Exclusive
Before the hum of machines and the rush of minutes, the world moved with a quieter rhythm. Trees unmoved by passing empires whispered secrets in a language of leaves, and rivers sang songs worn smooth by centuries. A fashion story photographed by Andrea Mauro.

A Liturgy for Disruption / Balenciaga by Demna
Fashion | Spotlight
Hosted inside the former chapel of Kering’s Paris headquarters, Balenciaga by Demna is an exhibition that reads as a fragmented anatomy of Demna’s vision for the house—marked by displacement and irony

Echoes Under the Skin / Madwoman
Music | Interview
MADWOMAN is a presence, part instinct, part ritual. She sketches tracks in moments of emotional chaos, paints to ground herself, and finds energy in unexpected places like American football.

Silhouettes of Sound / Kate Miao
Music | Interview
Raised on metal riffs and post-punk distortion, sharpened by the architecture of code, and softened by surrealist brushstrokes, Kate Miao—the Copenhagen-based DJ, label head, and creative technologist—moves through sound like static on silk: sharp, sensual, and unpredictable. Under the banners of Miao Music and Unlinked Recordings, she sculpts multidimensional spaces where techno, trance, and ambient dreamwork glitch, collide, and are reborn. Between control and collapse, between the logic of systems and the chaos of art, her sets become emotional architectures—her parties, living organisms.

Breaking the Mask / DeathbyRomy
Music | Interview
Raised amid the sun-drenched illusions and hard realities of Los Angeles, Romy channels the city’s beauty and brutality through an uncompromising lens, revealing the many versions of herself that have survived and evolved.

Midsummer dream
Fashion | Exclusive
Inspiring the desire to never go back home. Muses Camilla and Delia in a summer story by Marco Giuliano and styled by Anca Macavei with Permare Swim.
