Ivan Ruberto

Inspired by the way that real Londoners wear clothes – and the city’s dreary skyline – Aaron Esh’s Spring/Summer 2025 show was a darkly seductive affair

PhotographyIvan RubertoTextViolet Conroy Lead Image After reading Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity, Johanna Parv became fixated on a very specific image of a woman. The book, written by Deborah L Parsons and published in 2000, focuses on the emergence of the ‘flâneuse’ archetype – the female alternative to the male ‘flâneur’ – after the Industrial Revolution: an independent, working woman who was navigating the city, all alone, for the first time in history.

PhotographyIvan RubertoTextViolet Conroy Lead Image Less than 30 guests were present at Talia Byre’s Spring/Summer 2024 show. On a drizzly Sunday afternoon on Cecil Court – a 17th-century street in London’s West End nicknamed Bookseller’s Row for its antique, specialist bookshops – guests were supplied with glasses of sparkling natural wine from Lant Street Wine despite the unpredictable British weather.