Fashion Podcast
1) Ready-to-wear autumn-winter 2026/27 collections: Is fashion still subversive?
Is fashion still subversive? The answer is yes, with the extraordinarily named Matières Fécales label. At Yohji Yamamoto, it's yes, but more delicately. Satoshi Kondo for Issey Miyake, meanwhile, advo...Show More
2) Autumn/Winter 26/27: Young designers embrace sartorial optimism
Wars, conflicts, the rise of populism, and the meteoric advance of artificial intelligence – in a world full of uncertainty, how and why can we continue to create new fashion collections? Students fro...Show More
3) When Haute Couture breaks with tradition: Summer 2026 collections
Across the discipline, designers are breathing fresh perspectives into Haute Couture. Kevin Germanier repurposes Berluti outfits worn by the French Olympic team. Stéphane Rolland encourages model Farn...Show More
4) Menswear collections, autumn-winter 2026/27: Resisting a toxic world
For some designers, fashion is less about clothes themselves, and more about what those clothes can convey. They see fashion as primarily a political endeavour, a means of challenging a status quo tha...Show More
5) Spring-summer 2026 ready-to-wear: Free, independent and proud
This special report zooms in on the smaller fashion houses that sparkled during Paris Fashion Week. Vincent Pressiat, like Victor Weinsanto, looked to the past, when the king's favourites ruled the ro...Show More
6) Haute Couture seeks to save the planet, with Iris van Herpen leading the charge
Raising awareness about the fragility of our oceans, our land and our Indigenous heritage is the challenge facing a new generation of couturiers. For autumn-winter 2025/26, Iris van Herpen has created...Show More
Haute Couture seeks to save the planet, with Iris van Herpen leading the charge
06:00 | Aug 29th, 2025
7) Men's fashion for spring-summer 2026? It's political!
Whether it involves making space for the trans community, raising awareness about conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine, expressing their distrust of conventional conservative attitudes or funding scient...Show More
8) Ready-to-wear, fall-winter 2025: The art of always being right
To create a fashion collection, you need three key elements: silhouette, colour, material – be it for clothes or accessories. Yet these ingredients are lifeless without the discourse and the incredibl...Show More
9) Togo's international fashion festival fights for a world without cancer
Togo's International Fashion Festival has chosen a topical theme for its twelfth edition: the fight against cancer. The issue may not appear glamorous, but the alarming rise in cancer rates makes it e...Show More
10) Ready-to-wear, autumn-winter 2025: Creativity and disruption
The collective show from the international students of the Institut Français de la Mode kicks off the autumn-winter 2025/26 presentations and asks contemporary questions. How can a disruptive society ...Show More