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.
Take a look at C.R.E.O.L.E’s Spring/Summer 2026 backstage, captured by the lens of Spencer Stovell during Paris Fashion Week, in exclusive for Fucking Young!
Glenn Martens’ Maison Margiela Artisanal collection doesn’t just borrow from history, but it fractures it, reassembles it, and wears it like a second skin.
For Spring/Summer 2026, AV Vattev’s Bohème collection takes its cues from two iconic worlds: the effortless cool of French New Wave cinema and the raw energy of British music subcultures.
Concrete Husband talks about turning psychological collapse into industrial soundscapes, confronting darkness on Berghain’s dancefloor, and why dark techno is, above all, sexy.
We had the chance to catch up with Ohio-born, Brooklyn-based designer Kody Phillips in his Paris Fashion Week showroom where he unveiled his Spring/Summer 2026 collection.
Dean and Dan doubled down on their love of fashion’s most dramatic moments, remixing 80s power dressing, 90s grunge, and 2000s excess into something entirely their own.
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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.