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Virgil Abloh: The Codes / Grand Palais Exhibition

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From 30 September to 9 October, the Virgil Abloh Foundation, in partnership with Nike, calls on audiences to sustain this legacy, transforming the space into one of reflection, celebration, and ongoing dialogue between past and present.

The Night, La Nuit / Lust for Paper

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A bilingual collection of poems in English and French, its title alludes to the brief span of time the two singers, poets, and at the time even romantic partners, Patti Smith and Tom Verlaine, spent weaving these verses together.

Pages Engraved in Time and Ink / Veins Books

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Veins Books returns to Milan on the 13th and 14th of September, filling Via Cosimo del Fante with rare, underground volumes that carry traces of countercultural stories consumed far from the mainstream light, immersed in the gloom of the underground.

Adulterers Anonymous / Lust for Paper

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Adulterers Anonymous (1982) is a soliloquy on love and on all that might be mistaken for it. Its lines have absorbed the solitude and desperation of a feeling that, even when consumed in the flesh, lingers in the body until it becomes a torture for the mind.

The Church Of Our Becoming / Yulia Mahr

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From 24 July to 24 August, Dover Street Market Paris becomes the site of an invisible anatomy, a place where bodies are not seen, but sensed. In 'The Church of Our Becoming' , Yulia Mahr employs thermographic photography to strip away the visual noise of surface and gender, exposing a shared emotional core.

Raf Simons Redux / Lust For Paper

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An enduring tension that might lead to the unexpected and the notes of the band Suede in the background. The Raf Simons boys are the real drowners.

Lasting Impressions

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Across Europe this summer, fashion’s hidden histories and quiet legends come alive—not in grand gestures, but in hushed rooms where time seems to pause. From Osaka’s softly glowing Louis Vuitton archives to London’s lingering Versace silhouettes, through Paris’s delicate unraveling of Wes Anderson’s cinematic worlds, and Venice’s intimate portrait of Marc Jacobs by Sofia Coppola—these exhibitions invite you into moments suspended between memory and myth, where style breathes in shadow and light.

Vanishing Silhouette / Jordan Roth

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Set against the grandeur of the Louvre, this piece captures a rare moment of stillness and spectacle where fashion becomes performance and presence. Jordan Roth’s Radical Acts of Unrelenting Beauty offers a meditation on identity, movement, and transformation. What follows is a reflection on that ephemeral moment and the profound way it reshaped the role of the body in fashion.

Diary Entry / First Time Backstage

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A photographer's first analogue descent at BFW covering Milk of Lime, Haderlump, Clara Colette Miramon.

Glenn Martens’ debut at Maison Margiela

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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.

Worn Restrictions / Yeha Leung

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Bold, versatile, armour-like garments made for those who aren’t afraid to stand by their choices. Here, trends are just background noise and wearability sits in the backseat of intent and emotion. They are made to convey a message. Meet Yeha Leung, the mind behind Creepyyeha.

A Liturgy for Disruption / Balenciaga by Demna

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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