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Following a recent presentation at Phassion McGill’s SS26 Runway and an appearance on the debut season of Project Runway Canada , Montreal-based designer Maya Ginzburg’s success speaks for itself. Her pieces turn classic silhouettes into “outrageous basics”-- unique garments that catch the eye without surrendering practicality. Maya Ginzburg has always been drawn to individual creation. In her childhood, making things served as a form of creative coping–a way of soothing her

Bodies wear the remains of other bodies: those of nature, legacy, and art. Johnathan Anderson’s debut haute couture collection at Christian Dior is a marriage–quite literally–between the products of the natural world and of the human bodies existing within it. Nature is repurposed as functional and wearable: petals dangle from the girls’ ears, the leaves of a branch become an umbrella, little ladybugs and ferrets are chained and carried. Flowers grow on the models’ bodies,

Lace and ruffles and pink, oh my! The brick road may be yellow, but for designer Olivia Donahue, the future is green. Avenir Vert, Donahue’s collection of handmade sustainable pieces created from vintage and deadstock materials, was born when she was a teenager during the uncertainty of online school. Faced with a period of immense anxiety and the disruption of normalcy, she found comfort in creation, grounding herself in her natural talent of visual expression. Amidst gra

This week I’ve been reading Eve’s Hollywood, and though her accounts of Hollywood High and the Chateau Marmont are fascinating, nothing stuck with me quite like the chapter “The Fantasy.” Babitz discusses the male fantasy of anonymity: the dream of a woman who will sleep with him without knowing his name, love him without the promise that he will provide or stay forever. Accepting this male fantasy, Babitz explains, would be giving up what it is to be a woman: the female fan