Author: Lumie
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Miu Miu 26SS | The Apron as Origin: When the Ordinary Becomes a New Aesthetic
Inside Miu Miu 26SS Miuccia Prada showed her Spring/Summer 2026 Miu Miu collection at Paris Fashion Week in early October 2025. The reference points were things people actually use. Aprons. Cotton dresses. Shirts. Canvas. Leather worn close to the body. Aprons, cotton dresses, the shapes of working clothes — these worked as material for protection,…
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Bottega Veneta 26SS | Louise Trotter’s First Chapter: Tradition, Rewritten with Restraint
Inside Bottega Veneta 26SS Louise Trotter showed her debut Bottega Veneta collection at Milan Fashion Week in late September 2025. The show worked at a measured tempo — Trotter studying the house’s vocabulary before adding to it. The collection didn’t break with what came before. It read more as a careful adjustment of Bottega’s existing…
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Tiffany Knot Collection | Tension, Structure, and the Age of Choosing Form
Inside Tiffany Knot Collection The first time I saw the Tiffany Knot collection, my reaction was almost involuntary: a few years younger, and I would have bought it without thinking twice. That reaction stays, because Knot is rarely discussed in those terms. The marketing language frames it as a symbol of connection — a ribbon,…
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Prada Spring/Summer 2026 | The Discipline of Color, the Rhythm of Control
Inside Prada Spring/Summer 2026 Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons showed Prada’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection in Milan in late September 2025. The seasonal markers were there, but the structural intent came first. The orange runway framed the season’s tension between restraint and release — the discipline of uniform dressing meeting the emotional pull of color. Balance…
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[Van Cleef & Arpels] Structure Before Ornament: Reading Fleurs de Hawaii
The name promises tropical paradise. What’s actually on the tray at the boutique is something quieter. Van Cleef & Arpels released Fleurs de Hawaii at the start of summer 2025. Of the variations, aquamarine on white gold was the one that made the strongest impression on me — both for its visual clarity and for…
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Dior Spring/Summer 2026 | Jonathan Anderson’s Debut: Relearning Femininity at Dior
Inside Dior Spring/Summer 2026 Jonathan Anderson presented his first Dior womenswear collection on October 1, 2025, in Paris. The show began with a forty-minute prologue film — directed by Adam Curtis — projected over an inverted pyramid screen that stitched fragments from every Dior creative director who came before him. The film opened with a…
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Chanel Spring/Summer 2026 | Matthieu Blazy’s Debut: When Structure Learns to Breathe
Inside Chanel Spring/Summer 2026 Matthieu Blazy presented his first Chanel ready-to-wear collection on October 7, 2025, at the Grand Palais. The collection landed closer to a full reset than to a recalibration. The familiar warmth Chanel has carried for decades — the soft femininity, the emotional polish — was deliberately stripped back. In its place,…
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Cartier The Panthère Mini Semi-Pavé Watch
On Proportion, Craft, and the Watches That Age Better Than We Do The Panthère sits in a rare zone within Cartier’s catalogue — one of the few lines where the boundary between watch and bracelet jewelry actually dissolves on the wrist. That’s why choosing a Panthère starts somewhere different from most watch decisions. The first…
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Dior Pre-Fall 2026 | Preview
Reading Anderson’s First Image Fragments A collection’s direction often shows up earlier than the finished pieces. Especially when the designer is the one posting the fragments — unfinished gestures, close-ups, objects in process — through their personal account. Jonathan Anderson’s recent Instagram feed has been doing exactly that for Dior Pre-Fall 2026. There’s no central…
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On writing things that stay
I’ve written about fashion and jewelry for years —not to keep up, but to understand what stays. This journal isn’t about trends or releases.It’s a place to pause — and look again. I write about clothing, jewelry, and runways —always through structure, material, and proportion. What something is made of.How it’s worn.Why certain forms continue…