AnOther Magazine

The Miu Miu Bubble shoe might be fashion’s answer to the wafer-thin trainer Fashion currently seems intent on bringing us closer to the earth. Ballet slippers and wafer-thin trainers are les chaussures du jour: the fashionable foot is increasingly separated from the pavement by pure optimism, which looks all very elegant until you step on a rock. Miuccia Prada has another idea.

As her new exhibition opens at Margate’s Turner Contemporary, we talk to the enigmatic artist about transfiguring the raw material of her experiences into provocative art Art is an adventure, and no experience is so traumatic or mundane that it can’t be transfigured into a curious and compelling game in the hands of Sophie Calle. Be it a broken heart or an inconsequential coincidence, the provocative French artist takes her ideas to the extremity of their logical (or illogical) conclusion.

Richard Avedon, Marilyn Monroe, 1957 Now open at the Bourse de Commerce, Paris, Remember Me provides a whistle-stop tour of the history of photography – but it’s the show’s less recognisable, more conceptual works that serve to celebrate the medium’s potential to subvert At the centre of Remember Me, a new exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, is a vast installation by Barbara Kruger.

Lead ImageComme des Garçons Spring/Summer 2027 “When royal life and everyday life become one” was the big idea behind Rei Kawakubo’s Spring/Summer 2027 Comme des Garçons show. And although Kawakubo pushed it to a zenith of extremes, with globular clothes stuffed with wadding that transformed the models into abstract Rabelaisian, almost Henry VIII-like figures – each topped with a pinchbeck crown – there was something relatable there.

Alaïa Winter/Spring 2027 Following Pieter Mulier’s departure for Versace, Alaïa’s in-house design team looks to the past to shape the house’s future Lead ImageAlaïa Winter/Spring 2027 Azzedine Alaïa didn’t care about time so much. He showed his collections as and when he wanted, which was rarely during fashion month.

PhotographyMoni HaworthStylingCamille Bidault-Waddington Lead ImageFrom left: MilkMaiden is wearing a body by NATASHA ZINKO. Stylist’s own shorts. Sunglasses by JIMMY CHOO. Belt by NAMACHEKO. And boots by ANN DEMEULEMEESTER. Svetlana is wearing a dress and boots by MCQUEEN This story is taken from the Autumn/Winter 2026 issue of AnOther Magazine: Viola is wearing a jacket and trousers by CALVIN KLEIN COLLECTION.

The womenswear designer, who is known for her modern clothes with a darkly romantic and historical edge, treats dress as ritualistic and transformative, drawing inspiration from tarot, witchcraft and the divine feminine – here, she tells us more This story is taken from the Autumn/Winter 2026 issue of AnOther Magazine: “I got my first tarot deck, the Rider-Waite-Smith, when I was 16.

Armando Babaioff in Tom at the Farm Armando Babaioff spent three and a half years fighting to stage Tom na Fazenda. Now, the Brazilian actor brings his visceral adaptation of Michel Marc Bouchard’s queer thriller to the Barbican In the preface to his play Tom at the Farm, the playwright Michel Marc Bouchard writes: “Homosexuals learn to lie before they learn to love.” The play was first performed in 2011 and quickly adapted for the screen by Xavier Dolan in 2013.

Gay Pride Day Christopher Street Sidewalk, 1981 Stanley Stellar’s photographs are a record of gay life in New York from the 1970s onwards. At 81, he reflects on cruising Christopher Street and losing a generation to Aids Lead ImageGay Pride Day Christopher Street Sidewalk, 1981 Stanley Stellar knows how this goes. After a few books and countless interviews, he has the choreography of our conversation down.

For Spring/Summer 2027, Nadège Vanhée stripped everything away to a lightness – “The concept was airborne” The contemporary might of the fashion powerhouse enables them to achieve many improbable things – but as a myriad rained-out (or, this summer, sunned-out) al fresco fashion shows prove, despite the possibly apocryphal story of the very well-paid, private-jetting fashion shaman, the weather is one thing we can’t even predict, let alone control.