Essay — Azir Cain
YOUR ARCHIVE IS YOUR IDENTITY
Fashion's most interesting question in 2026 isn't about the new collection. It's about the archive — how Helmut Lang, Grace Wales Bonner, Maison Margiela, and Fendi are treating their archives as working methods rather than vaults, and why the difference matters.
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Essay — Azir Cain
A CENTURY FITS IN A SILHOUETTE
how Fendi, Schiaparelli, and Patou metabolise 100+ years of institutional memory into present-tense design.
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Essay — Azir Cain
THE MONSTER QUESTION
using Dev Hynes's AnOther reflection on Shelley as a launch into Walter Benjamin's "Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," updated for generative AI.
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Feature — Azir Cain
THE CLOTHES HAVE NO INSIDE
On Carol Christian Poell, the atelier as laboratory, and fashion that behaves like evidence.
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