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July 13, 2026 By Rachel Garrahan By Rachel Garrahan Following Paris Couture Fashion Week, Rachel Garrahan unpacks the haute joaillerie highlights. Color and volume abounded in the high jewelry collections presented this week during Paris couture, with the maisons experimenting more than ever before with unexpected gems and materials to secure the fleeting attention of discerning gem obsessives and collectors. It is just as well the brands make their mark in the category.

July 10, 2026 By Erica Rana By Erica Rana The actor and musician reveals which song from new album Fire from the Hip was inspired by the end of Stranger Things and what a day spent in the studio with his friends looks like. Finn Wolfhard is the last person you’d expect to suffer from stage fright. The American actor helmed one of the most influential shows of the last decade, Netflix’s 80s supernatural hit Stranger Things.

July 9, 2026 By Ata-Owaji Victor By Ata-Owaji Victor The beauty industry may have retired the phrase “anti-ageing”, but our fear of growing older remains firmly intact. As social media, cosmetic interventions and shifting beauty standards intensify the pressure to stay youthful, Ata-Owaji Victor investigates the psychological impact of ageing in a culture that still treats it as something to overcome.

July 9, 2026 By Anders Christian Madsen By Anders Christian Madsen At Jean Paul Gaultier, Duran Lantink made a tubular haute couture debut rooted in experimentation. EE72 Fashion Critic Anders Christian Madsen reviews the show. On an haute couture schedule that’s currently lacking the mad gestures of experimentation that contribute to keeping these old crafts alive, Duran Lantink’s debut for Jean Paul Gaultier was a welcome addition.

July 9, 2026 By Anders Christian Madsen By Anders Christian Madsen For his first haute couture collection at Balenciaga, for fall/winter 26, Pierpaolo Piccioli reinvented Cristóbal’s codes without losing his own. EE72 Fashion Critic Anders Christian Madsen reviews the show. You do you. The millennial mantra could have been the motto for Pierpaolo Piccioli’s first haute couture collection for Balenciaga.

July 8, 2026 By Anders Christian Madsen By Anders Christian Madsen At Armani Privé, Silvana Armani drew on a woman’s ritual of dressing for Fall-Winter 2026, playing with the house’s expressions of gaze. EE72 Fashion Critic Anders Christian Madsen reviews the show. The Armani gaze is shifting. Since the late founder’s niece Silvana Armani took the reins at the brand, which was so fundamental in evolving ideas of gender-oriented gazes in the 1980s, things aren’t just looking different at Armani.

July 8, 2026 BY CHARLOTTE SINCLAIR PHOTOGRAPHY KATE MARTIN STYLING SASA THOMANN BY CHARLOTTE SINCLAIR PHOTOGRAPHY KATE MARTIN STYLING SASA THOMANN Kristin Scott Thomas’s self-penned directorial debut is the latest accomplishment in an elegant career that’s just getting better. Charlotte Sinclair meets her at her London home.

July 7, 2026 By Erica Rana By Erica Rana In Guten Morgen Sonnenschein, the famed photographer and his wife offer a glimpse into the “positivity, warm and playful inventiveness” of their collaborative partnership. Juergen Teller and Dovile Drizyte have a relationship that spans eight and a half years. Over those years, the pair have worked on countless creative projects, including their playful photography book The Myth and a photo series depicting David Bailey’s renowned Kings Cross loft studio.

July 7, 2026 By Anders Christian Madsen By Anders Christian Madsen For Fall-Winter 2026, the Irish designer Michael Stewart brought his London-based brand Standing Ground to the haute couture schedule with a studious proposal targeted at longevity. EE72 Fashion Critic Anders Christian Madsen reviews the show. “You’ve spent your life waiting for this moment,” Scissor Sisters sang on the soundtrack during the Standing Ground finale in Paris on Monday night.

July 7, 2026 By Anders Christian Madsen By Anders Christian Madsen Silicone and body plates turned Daniel Roseberry’s Fall-Winter 2026 Schiaparelli haute couture show into a macabre study of artifice, anatomy and transformation. EE72 Fashion Critic Anders Christian Madsen reviews the show. The body-enhancing, second-skin fabric constructions that opened the Schiaparelli haute couture show at the Petit Palais on Monday morning soon took a macabre turn.