Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY used his platform during the first Digital London Fashion Week during the weekend to create revenue streams for UK Black Pride and Kaleidoscope Trust. The label’s dual-focused output – a live-streamed virtual talent showcase and a capsule collection launch – support timely causes close to the LOVERBOY community’s heart.
“SOLASTA showcases creative expressions from London-based, multi-disciplinary Black creatives: Dancer Malik Nashad Sharpe, singer/songwriter Rachel Chinouriri, poet and activist Kai-Isaiah Jamal, commentator and presenter Miss Jason of Jason’s Closet, and fashion designers (and former students of Charles’ via lecturing at The University of Westminster) Halina Edwards and Catherine Hudson. Across the line-up, these individuals generously lend their talents not only to LOVERBOY but to the London Fashion Week platform. SOLASTA takes place in tandem with the launch of a new capsule collection from the label. The 20-piece unisex collection, entitled (Self)Portrait of a LOVERBOY, is comprised of graphic jersey, knitwear, and accessories. The collection will be sold globally in December 2020, and proceeds will be donated to Kaleidoscope Trust.”
With this collection, Ludovic de Saint Sernin crowns a new aristocracy. In this world, elegance is a form of liberation, sensuality is power, and the ultimate luxury is belonging.
Maison Kitsuné presents its SS26 collection, titled Voyage Vestiaire. This season marks the debut of the house’s new Creative Director, Abigail Smiley-Smith.
Alessandro Michele unveils his Valentino SS26 collection, “Fireflies,” a sartorial manifesto inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s writings on finding light and desire in the dark.
Ann Demeulemeester is known for creating a strong contrast between structure and softness, but for Spring/Summer 2026, it was the softer side that came out.
Artist Josué Thomas presents a photographic project titled I ♥ Paris (quand ce n’est pas la fashion week). It is a meditation on the city, focusing on the life that exists beyond its most famous events.
Guided by designer Daisuke Obana’s philosophy of deconstruction and reassembly, the capsule collection filters Baracuta’s British heritage through a minimalist and detail-oriented lens.
The fashion label grounds presented its SS26 collection in a raw, brutalist parking garage during Paris Fashion Week. The setting set the tone for what was inside.
The act of getting dressed is a personal audition for the day ahead. We create a silhouette and try on different versions of ourselves until the look fits the part we want to play.
Turn the page. Breathe deep. Your pupils are already dilating. The high is coming.
Issue 26 brings together two electrifying covers that take the dopamine dive from Sadiq Desh captured by Cris Cerdeira to multidisciplinary visual artist and photographer Tomás Pintos’ cover story, Besos hasta agotar stock (Kisses Until Sold Out), developed from the live performance creating a space where glamour
meets exhaustion.
