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Introducing KIRBY and Miss Black America: A Soundtrack for Strength and Selfhood
Summer Walker is Finally Over It
Summer Walker returns with a powerful two part album that dives into heartbreak, healing and emotional rebirth. The project’s double structure For Worse and For Good reflects a full journey from collapse to clarity, highlighting a renewed wave of multi chapter albums in R&B.
Queen Naija: 30. EP Review
Queen Naija steps into her thirties with 30., an eight-track Motown EP that blends honesty, sensuality and self-assurance. It’s R&B grown up - no skips, no filler, just truth.
Destin Conrad’s wHIMSY: Jazz Meets Contemporary R&B
Destin Conrad’s wHIMSY is a bold, jazz-infused journey through contemporary R&B. Recorded in just two weeks, the album showcases his inventive voice, rich collaborations, and seamless fusion of classic jazz inspirations with modern soundscapes. Tracks like LOVE!, drifting, and wASH U AWAY highlight an album that refuses to stand still.
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Christmas editorials have always been about performance, excess and fantasy. From vintage magazine covers to modern holiday campaigns, fashion uses December to abandon restraint, exaggerate beauty and lean into nostalgia driven glamour that prioritizes mood desire and visual impact over relatability.
Paris Couture’s next generation arrives with Phan Huy. At just twenty six the Vietnamese designer enters the official haute couture calendar and quietly shifts who gets to shape couture now.
Fashion is built on legacy but sustained by risk. An honest look at emerging brands, popups and creative visions and why beginnings deserve as much respect as heritage.
Winter makeup returns with smudged liner, wet skin, baby pink blush and the comeback of the cool toned ombre lip. These are the key beauty trends shaping the cold season and the festive months of 2025. A full guide to winter makeup looks, viral products and techniques that bring creativity back to your routine.
Chanel stepped underground in New York and found a new heartbeat. Matthieu Blazy turned the Bowery subway platform into a living portrait of modern luxury where tweed silk and feathers met the grit of the city. The Métiers d’art show honored commuters and dreamers with a collection shaped by craft motion and identity. It marked a new direction for Chanel one that listens to the rhythm of real life while protecting its iconic aura.
A deep dive into how makeup artist Sophia Sinot is leading beauty’s shift away from clean minimalism and toward bold expressive glam through her work on Zara Larsson’s Midnight Sun Tour.
Nike and Jacquemus debut their first Après Ski collection with technical Gore Tex pieces, sculpted silhouettes and accessible pricing that bridges luxury and real performance gear. A refined take on alpine dressing at a surprisingly reasonable price point for winter sport lovers.
Charli XCX expands her beat driven pop revolution with The Moment, the new A24 film she conceived and produced. With a star packed cast and a raw portrayal of the modern music world the singer steps into cinema with the same fearless energy that reshaped global pop.
Balmain enters a new chapter as Antonin Tron takes over as Creative Director. Known for his quiet precision and sculptural elegance, Tron brings a fresh sensitivity to the house, replacing spectacle with substance and movement with meaning.
Ludovic de Saint Sernin makes his debut with ZARA, bringing a collection that feels intimate, magnetic, and effortlessly wearable. From supple leather and sheer layers to metallic details, the campaign captures the tension between confidence and vulnerability, translating his signature sensual minimalism for a global audience.
Pop icon Dua Lipa is stepping into the luxury skincare arena with DUA™, a collaboration with Augustinus Bader. Built around biotech innovation and minimalist design, the line aims to deliver clean, high-performance results for modern lifestyles. But its price and positioning raise a question: is DUA™ designed for fans or for the luxury elite?
YSL Production, The Tiger and The Hunt shows that fashion is in an age where campaigns feel like cinema and luxury houses operate like film studios, emotion has become the new language. Fashion has found its cinematic voice and it’s speaking in widescreen.
Meet the new generation of movie boys; Jacob Elordi, Timothée Chalamet, Chris Briney, Gavin Casalegno and Austin Butler are redefining what it means to be a leading man. They’re tall, magnetic, emotionally complex and quietly charming. The kind of actors who make fangirling cool again.
From Milan to Paris, Elisée Nzuzi built Eidiko Showroom as a space for new designers to grow, not just to be seen. In this ECHOGRID interview, she opens up about building alone, leading an all-women team, and reshaping fashion’s hierarchy from the inside.
At Ireland Fashion Week, designer Sasha Donnellan unveiled “Lupus et Agnus”, a debut collection that felt like a Celtic fairytale in motion. Blending Irish heritage with delicate lace, buttery silks and quiet defiance, it marked a new era of storytelling in Irish fashion: emotional, sustainable and deeply personal.
The new generation didn’t just walk Fashion Week 2025, they shifted its entire energy. From Alex Consani to Paloma Elsesser, meet the faces behind every campaign you double-tap and the girls everyone’s booking, watching, and saving to their moodboards.
Pierpaolo Piccioli’s first Balenciaga campaign arrives with the calm of early morning light. Gone is the noise and confrontation. In its place, quiet rooms, soft fabric, and a kind of beauty that feels human again. This is not Balenciaga reinvented but reborn with tenderness, emotion, and meaning.
The Ordinary is rewriting the beauty playbook with The Periodic Fable™, a campaign that turns marketing myths into a science lesson. Forget filters and fluff. This is skincare stripped down to truth, irony and rebellion.
Behind the spotlight of the 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Huy Luong captured the moments that defined its spirit. His backstage photographs reveal the calm, the focus, and the quiet power before the runway began. Through his lens, beauty became movement, and stillness became story.
Victoria’s Secret returned to New York with a show that felt more like a cultural reset than a comeback. The pink carpet in Brooklyn turned into a collision of nostalgia and new power; from Bella and Gigi Hadid to Paloma Elsesser and Alex Consani. It wasabout angels, evolution, ownership and a kind of sexy that felt real.
Fashion Month 2025 revealed an industry caught between progress and hesitation. From New York’s energy to Paris’s grandeur, the conversation around body diversity and representation reached new visibility, yet true inclusivity still feels unfinished. As new creative directions emerge, the question remains: will fashion’s future finally embrace every body or continue to treat inclusivity as a seasonal statement?
Paris in SS26 moved with its own kind of rhythm, soft and electric at once. The city turned into a stage where couture met chaos and elegance felt effortless. Every show spilled out into the streets, blending old glamour with something sharper, more present. It was that rare kind of beauty that doesn’t try, it just happens and everyone feels it.
Tokyo James shattered expectations at Milan Fashion Week SS26 with a collection that treated tailoring as autobiography and identity as fractured glass. Shapes collapsed, fabrics argued with themselves, and heritage codes whispered through the cracks. It was not a runway show but a ritual space where fashion revealed its broken edges and turned them into beauty.
Bad Bunny is not just headlining the Super Bowl halftime show he is rewriting it. On February 8 the Puerto Rican icon will turn Levi’s Stadium into a battlefield of rhythm and resistance bringing Spanish lyrics bomba beats and cultural fire into the most American spectacle. This will not be safe. This will not be polite. It will be the halftime show that shifts the center forever.
The last three days of Milan Fashion Week SS26 were charged with endings and beginnings. Armani’s farewell turned into elegy, Versace under Dario Vitale struck a new chord, Bottega under Louise Trotter reinvented its weave, while Ferragamo and Blumarine rewrote history with whispers and rebellion. Milan closed with fashion as memory and manifesto all at once.
Ferrari stepped onto the Milan runway with a collection that whispered instead of roared. Rocco Iannone stripped away spectacle in favor of precision, moving from pure white architectures to scorched denims and silken eveningwear. It was Ferrari not as heritage or hype but as discipline and restraint, a brand discovering power in stillness.
Louise Trotter’s debut at Bottega Veneta unfolded in Milan with quiet strength and clarity. The Spring Summer 2026 collection reimagines house codes like the intrecciato weave and the knot, balancing structure with fluidity while honoring the craft of the Veneto ateliers. It is a beginning that feels less like disruption and more like evolution.
Milan Fashion Week SS26 is less a parade of trends and more a mirror held up to shifting identities and restless ideas. From Demna’s cinematic Gucci debut to Moschino’s playful protest and Armani’s elegiac farewell, the city feels like a laboratory where fashion is not only about dressing bodies but questioning them.
This collection will be remembered because it insists that we remember. It refuses old myths that taught women to be small and to trade power for safety. Instead, it teaches that pain can be transformed, worn and finally released. Dilara Findikoglu gives back names and voices to those she carries. She sets them free and shows that the end of inherited shame is the beginning of something entirely new, louder, truer and finally ours.
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Kylie Jenner just brought King Kylie back with turquoise hair and the same fearless energy that defined a generation. With a new collection, a new song and her sisters by her side, Kylie reminded everyone why the internet once revolved around her and why it still kind of does.