Beauty, care, love. For the Fall/Winter 2023 collections and campaigns, Prada draws inspiration from these timeless values, universal emotions of humanity that come to life through the metaphor of flowers. Always symbols of tenderness and affection, they are reimagined on a human scale, suggesting otherworldly emotions. The flowers interact with five internationally acclaimed stars – Benedict Cumberbatch, Hunter Schafer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Letitia Wright, and Li Xian – showcasing Prada’s longstanding relationship with cinema as a medium of cultural ideas and ideals. With their talent, these protagonists evoke feelings through words, actions, even a simple gaze, in a series of beautiful images and videos.
The result is an impossible sequence of surreal conversations with flowers, both literal and visual dialogues. Flowers are eternal symbols of beauty suspended between the ordinary and the extraordinary, naturally carrying emotions, physical expressions of the intangible. In this scaled version, they transform into living creatures, active protagonists whose resonance transcends cultures and even language.
Willy Vanderperre immortalizes each actor in front of one of these gigantic flowers, engaging in a visual and literal exchange. In the films created for the campaign, the cast converses with these improbable interlocutors, following a script specially written by Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Hours” (1998).
Just as these conversations are paradoxical, the flower itself embodies a dichotomy: simultaneously fragile and strong, precious and ordinary, ephemeral and eternal – each one unique. Through this metaphor of humanity, used as an external expression of thoughts and feelings, the implicit synergy between flowers and the embodiment of the human experience becomes tangible. A real emotion is evoked through seemingly unreal images.
Ann Demeulemeester’s Pre-Spring 2026 collection is about listening. The designer steps back, not to dwell on the past, but to let the house’s own history speak, then moves forward without force.
Pitti Uomo’s 108th edition focused on daring fashion experimentation and creative exploration, showcasing inventiveness characterized by eclecticism in addition to a forward-thinking outlook of all things sartorial.
A$AP Rocky just redefined an icon. In collaboration with Ray-Ban, he’s transformed the classic Wayfarer into something entirely fresh, the Wayfarer Puffer.
The Polimoda Graduate Show 2025 kicked off Pitti Uomo’s 108th edition, presenting twenty collections from emerging designers that prioritized raw creativity over commercial appeal.
Pitti Uomo 108 in collaboration with Japan Fashion Week Organization takes us backstage at the first international runway show for Japanese brand Children of the Discordance.
On a sunny Paris day, we caught up with Damien for a little chat in a park, because talking poetry on a sunny day in Paris on a weekday feels more than right.
We talked with Ecstasya about her hiatus, the struggle of keeping Lisbon’s first queer hardcore night (Maythey) alive, and why the best tracks come from being “sad as fuck.”
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.
