For Jonathan Chandi, the season did not end when the shows did. Returning to photographs made across different shows at Paris Fashion Week SS 27, he began pulling them away from the polished language of his portfolio and into something more instinctive and personal. Reworked in black and white, silhouettes become more severe, textures more physical and small details suddenly take over the frame. The series pushes against fashion photography’s obsession with immaculate surfaces, allowing grain, contrast and imperfection to reshape the memory of the shows themselves.

Some photographs ask us to look harder at extraordinary things. Marko Laitinen’s work does the opposite. A streetlamp, a chair, a blank wall, a reflection; small details most people pass without noticing become the centre of the frame, charged with humour, tension or quiet significance. Rather than searching for spectacle, the Laitinen works through attention: walking slowly, noticing coincidences, and allowing ordinary spaces to become briefly theatrical. In this conversation, he reflects on solitude, empty space, accidental humour, and photography as a way of resisting the habit of moving through the world without really seeing it.

For the past decade, Malaysian label GOODTIMES has built its world around a simple idea: buy less, know more. Its clothes move between city life and the outdoors, combining technical function with a quieter design language shaped by music, movement and everyday experience. For SS27, the brand looks back home, translating traditional Songket textiles into perforated details while continuing to resist fashion’s obsession with constant novelty. We spoke with GOODTIMES about longevity, Malaysian identity, the beauty of function, and why the memories attached to what we wear can matter more than the clothes themselves.
We spoke with GOODTIMES’ founder about what it means to build clothes, and a culture, meant to last.

Online, we’re often taught to distrust the self we construct. Mika Liang is more interested in what that construction reveals. In her paintings, masks split open, bodies move beyond realism, and eyes, hands and skin become unstable carriers of beauty, harm and experience. Drawing from early internet culture, Vocaloid and deeply personal memories, Liang has developed a semi-realistic visual language suspended somewhere between reality and fiction.

XiuXiu Kong’s photographs rarely tell us what has happened, but they make it impossible to believe that nothing has. Her carefully constructed scenes feel cinematic without offering the relief of a complete story: we arrive too late for the beginning and leave before the consequences. For Kong, violence is never the subject on its own, but a language through which desire, intimacy and liberation become visible. In this conversation, she discusses staging images that still feel alive, creating closeness beyond conventional romance, the freedom of being misunderstood, and why beauty becomes most powerful when it begins to overwhelm us.

Titled BLING BLING BLING, Junya Watanabe MAN’s Spring/Summer 2027 collection treated excess as construction rather than decoration. Tailoring collided with tracksuits, workwear and layered collaborations, while chains, coins and crystals transformed familiar symbols of status into something stranger. Elegance, utility and street culture were made to occupy the same body. Photographed in black and white by Jonathan Chandi, the collection loses none of its noise. Monochrome sharpens the silhouettes, textures and precision beneath the overload, revealing how carefully Watanabe makes excess feel intentional.

Giusy Amoroso’s creatures do not arrive from another world. They appear to have survived this one by absorbing it: metal into skin, contamination into anatomy, technology into flesh. Moving between digital modelling and physical fabrication, the Berlin-based artist creates organisms caught mid-adaptation. Organisms that are seductive, unsettling and never entirely separate from the conditions that produced them. In her work, identity is not a stable outline but an accumulation of every pressure, material and environment a body has moved through.

Photographer: Becca Harris @beccaharrisphoto

Talent: Lanie @cougarlanie @ Jadore Models @jadoremodelsagency

Stylist: Ellie Dawson @elliedwsn

MUA: Fiona Hartono @fionacdh

Clothing: Melissa Morrison, Michael Kors, Miista and True Vintage.

For Spring/Summer 2027, Rei Kawakubo began with an almost impossible proposition: if the war were to end. At Comme des Garçons Homme Plus, camouflage returned in softened, psychedelic pastels; flags were fragmented into panels of colour; and striped tailoring opened into tunics, skirts and loose layers made for air rather than armour. The idea was paired with HIZUME’s oversized sun hats displacing the helmet with something stranger, lighter and almost celebratory. Photographed by Jonathan Chandi, the collection appears caught between memory and possibility.

Beauty is never neutral. It is shaped by personal instinct, cultural training, technology, and the quiet pressure to resemble what already exists. After almost two decades in creative and editorial direction, Laura Dunkelmann approaches image-making as a way of proposing possibilities rather than pursuing perfection. Working across photography, concept development, and AI-generated imagery, she uses new tools to move beyond practical limitations and familiar visual references.

Photographed in Battersea, London, and titled "Battersea," the story follows model Pavel Davison’s intimate moments of preparing for the day. Captured through the candid lens of Dario Monzione and shot predominantly on film, the editorial weaves together black-and-white and color imagery to create an analog portrait of Pavel's morning in a London hotel room.

here is a quiet confidence at the heart of SONGZIO’s Spring/Summer 2027 collection. Titled IMPAVIDE—Latin for “undaunted”—it reimagines courage not as loud defiance, but as the quiet determination to move forward through uncertainty. Rather than presenting strength as something fixed, creative director Jay Song explores resilience as a state of continual transformation, where vulnerability and conviction coexist. Expressed through the house’s signature elongated tailoring, layered silhouettes and richly textured surfaces, the collection continues SONGZIO’s longstanding dialogue between fashion, art and philosophy, proposing clothing not simply as a form of expression, but as a reflection of an ever-evolving human condition. Captured by the incredible Jonathan Chandi on the runway and behind the scenes, these images reveal not only the precision of the collection, but also the atmosphere, anticipation and fleeting moments that gave IMPAVIDE its emotional depth.

With their first official music video and forthcoming debut mini album Monsters, Sticky Shorts step into view with a sound shaped by desire, memory, gay life and the people who taught them how to exist outside the rules. Their first official music video, “The Ones You Warned Them About,” arrives as both an opening statement and a warning of what is still to come. Dark, intimate and deliberately confrontational, the track offers the first glimpse into Monsters, the band’s forthcoming debut mini album.

Following the presentation of their Spring/Summer 2027 collection at Paris Fashion Week, Taiwanese brand SEALSON reflects on the ideas behind its restrained, highly functional design language. Shaped by dense urban life, a humid climate, and close proximity to the outdoors, its products explore how materials, structure, and construction can respond to the way a generation moves through the city. We spoke with them about functionalism, creative process, anonymity, and why a product is never truly finished.

With A Glimpse, Steven Passaro returns from the sky back to the room. Where the previous chapter dissolved the body upward, into something larger than the self, this collection brings it back down, into a single skin that lets itself be seen, but only in part. Two forces inhabit every silhouette: the will to be looked at, and the instinct to stay hidden. They are not resolved. They are worn together, the way a body carries what coexists within without settling.

Opening at Southern Guild Cape Town on 18 July 2026, Kanye Nawe is a major solo exhibition by South African visual activist and 2026 Hasselblad Award Laureate Zanele Muholi, spanning more than two decades of the artist's practice. Occupying the gallery in its entirety, the exhibition brings together a densely configured installation of the seminal community portrait project Faces and Phases; intimate photographs from Only Half the Picture, Being, Mo(u)rning, LiZa, and ZaVa; new works from the ongoing self-portrait series Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness); and recent bronze sculptures.

Photographer: Becca Harris

Stylist and Creative Director: Katie Elizabeth

HMUA: Megan Addison

Model: Ruby Epstein @ J'adore Models

Location: Greystones Farm

Climate change is often discussed through data, forecasts, and political debate. In THE CLIMATE BREAKDOWN, Sepehr Badiei approaches it through image and poetry instead.

Created in collaboration with a diverse group of creatives, the project presents a surreal vision of a world living through environmental uncertainty. Moving between beauty and unease, the photographs and texts explore humanity's relationship with the natural world and the emotional realities that accompany ecological change.

Photographer and concept: Emilio Amici @emilio_amici

Stylist: Samantha Salata @samantha.salata

Talent: Denisa Zarnescu @denisazarnescu // Milano Model Management|

@_milanomodelmanagement_

Art Direction: Kamila Bigos @misskami___

Grooming: Maria Russo @makeup.by.mary02

Production: Palazzo Studio @palazzo.studio

Fashion brands: @archeve__, @valentinapoltronieri_official, @la_rulet, @damastudio.official

Photography: Eleonora Matteoli  @ele.matte

Stylist: Aurora Celani @styledbyaurora

Models: Charlie /Euphoria Fashion Agency @euphoriafashionagency  & Zira / Euphoria Fashion Agency @euphoriafashionagency

Make-up artist: Sara Corsica @saracorsicaa

Production: Palazzo Studio @palazzo.studio

Fashion brands: RIVA VINTAGE @rivavintage & Shoes Orha @orha_roma