BEST OF PARIS FASHION WEEK, FALL 2015

Britan’s own husky-voiced singer-songwriter has taken the United States by storm this year, from opening for Sam Smith and Hozier to playing Saturday Night Live.

Beaverton, Oregon, is a town far removed from Paris and New York, both in location and ethos. Tucked amid the rivers, forests, and mountains of the Pacific Northwest, the crunchy, techy city is perhaps not the first place you would expect to find a hot bed of fashion innovation. But Beaverton is also the home of Nike, arguably the world’s dominant manufacturer of athletic gear and, with today’s announcement of a new capsule collaboration with sacai’s designer Chitose Abe, a newfound fount of provocative design.

Our fashion director Alastair McKimm picks the ten best Fall 2015 collections from Milan Fashion Week, including Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Gucci, Jil Sander, Max Mara, Moschino, Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini, Prada, Sportmax, and Versace.

Photographer Mona Kuhn finds herself returning time and again to the desert. Its peculiar, altered reality, in which forms shimmer and are obliterated in glare and haze, and in which one proceeds, seemingly in vain, toward an ever-receding and indistinct horizon, have long fascinated Kuhn.

“There’s a certain magic to that climate,” Kuhn says. “I find myself drawn there more and more. It’s a fascinating ecosystem. For all the seeming emptiness, it’s actually teeming with life if you’re willing to sit still and really observe what’s happening just below the surface.”

With Kanye West, Lauryn Hill, and Lorde among his fans, the teenager might just be the next great singer-songwriter-rapper prodigy. Take a look back at our feature as he releases his début album, All We Need, today.

Buying art online has suddenly become ubiquitous. The new platforms are throwing parties in Miami, partnering with museums to organize their gala auctions, or providing media partnerships, but this relatively new sector is still trying to understand if they should disrupt a market or willingly dangle itself to be co-opted by the major old-school auction houses.

Artnet has been the quiet leader, as well as an anomaly, of the pack. It’s ancient—twenty-five years old—and is a publicly held company with offices in New York, Berlin, London, and Beijing. In the late Eighties, feeling threatened by artnet’s pursuit to make information transparent to the market, a number of auction houses unsuccessfully tried to sue the young company. It struggled for years as auctioneers and major galleries were uncooperative, but its perseverance to make access to data easy and to democratize the transaction of purchasing art has come full circle. Today, the same auction houses and galleries are all artnet clients.

Our fashion director Alastair McKimm picks the ten best Fall 2015 collections from London Fashion Week, including Ashley Williams, Burberry Prorsum, Christopher Kane, Giles, Joseph, JW Anderson, Marques’Almeida, Peter Pilotto, Simone Rocha, and Thomas Tait.

Leonardo Davicii, Smiley Cyrus, and Putintin are all hilarious figments of Kalle Mattsson’s imagination, mashups that connect portraits of two distinct and distinctive personalities. They can be found, collaged, on Mattsson’s Tumblr page, Buffalo Bill Gates. “I wish I could blame someone else,” Mattsson laughs, “but I just thought of ‘George Michael Jackson’ one day, and then immediately had to see how he looked.”

Our fashion director Alastair McKimm picks the eleven best Fall 2015 collections from New York Fashion Week, including 3.1 Phillip Lim, Alexander Wang, Altuzarra, Calvin Klein Collection, Edun, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Narciso Rodriguez, Proenza Schouler, The Row, and Victoria Beckham.