Designers
The Street Outside the Show: What London Fashion Week's Best Looks Are Actually Saying
Tailoring loosened, red sharpened, and frog closures walked out of the archive. The pavement was the more interesting runway this season.
Designers
Designers is the profile archive of AWH Magazine: reported pieces made from studio visits, interviews and the collaborators who work alongside a designer. Subjects range from first collections to houses changing hands. Useful for readers who want to know how a garment was arrived at, not only who signed it.
Designers
From Sketch to Runway: How Fashion Collections Are Made, One Garment at a Time
A single dress makes a long journey before anyone photographs it. Here is the route it travels, from first drawing to final fitting.
Designers
The Seam as Signature: How Construction Details Become a Designer's Calling Card
Before the logo, before the label, there is the join — and the houses that sew their names into it.
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The Grain of the Cloth: How Madeleine Vionnet Cut the Dress Free of the Corset
Working in Paris from 1912 to 1940, Vionnet built her house on one technical argument — cloth cut across its grain drapes instead of hangs — and then, a decade into her fame, quietly cut against her own signature.
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Pearls, Tulle and the Long Shadow of the Nursery: Simone Rocha's Dollhouse History
The Dublin-born designer has spent a decade and a half turning Irish references, pearls and tulle into an archive-obsessed wardrobe, tested at scale by her 2021 guest collection for Jil Sander.
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Not for You — For Everyone: Telfar Clemens and the Bag That Repriced Luxury
The Liberian-American designer built a unisex label around a vegan-leather shopping bag priced within reach, winning the CFDA's American accessory award in 2021 and rewriting who a designer object is for.