Designers are inventing new ways of presenting their collections. Here, Vogue speaks to five digital artists who explain how they realised Demna Gvasalia’s virtual reality.
FERAL REBRAND.
The London-based designer debuts a new name, logo and direction for autumn-winter 2018.
Founded in 2017 by Charlotte Knowles and her partner Alexandre Arsenault, Charlotte Knowles catapulted to success with signature skintight attire, deconstructed pieces, underwear as outerwear and sheer animal prints. Debuting at the Fashion East AW18 show, the brand has become an unmistakeable fixture on the London scene with consistently strong, and brand defining collections.
For AW21, Charlotte Knowles marks a fresh chapter in the evolution of the label, celebrating their most expansive and comprehensive collection to date with the unveiling of KNWLS. We felt it was the right moment to take Charlotte Knowles and shorten it to reflect the brand as more than just a singular effort but a larger studio practice say Knowles and Arsenault of the rebrand, this brand identity update marks a new chapter for us, and reflects our vision of growing the label int
Here s the Coolest Stuff from Fashion Week
New Versace Print & Schiaparelli: Our Favorite Bits From Fashion Week
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In 2021, the overflow of ongoing fashion week presentations may have felt less like the self-contained bi-annual event it usually is and more like a perpetually regenerating groundhog day of new products.
Not that there hasn t been some major highlights: Fashion East proved triumphant with a roster of upcoming designers debuting new collections at London Fashion Week, while in New York, dormant label Hood By Air was revived with a new collection and campaign starring Naomi Campbell.
Elsewhere, new collections have been dropping left, right, and center. Below, we ve rounded up a few exciting Fall/Winter 2021 pieces that caught our eye.
When it comes to fashion presentations, no one is doing it like Collina Strada. Debuting a brilliantly berserk acid trip of a collection video for SS21, the label was later selected to show as part of GucciFest, where designer Hillary Taymour dropped a fully playable 3D video game. In a similarly trippy turn of events,
Collina Land saw willing adventurers immersed in her cartoony, kaleidoscopic world, as they battled climate change by stomping out forest fires, scooping plastic trash out of the ocean, and inexplicably avoiding being hit by flying bread – all while armoured up in digitally rendered clothing fit for a global warming crisis.
Fact 2020: Audiovisual
Fact 2020: Audiovisual
We’ve collected some of our favourite audiovisual works from a year in which creativity was made more difficult, and more vital, than ever.
This year Fact Magazine broadened its focus, presenting short film, audiovisual work, movement and performance art alongside the electronic and experimental music we have always championed.
More importantly, this year proved to be one of the most challenging faced by artists the world over, with the pressures of a global pandemic, major cuts to arts funding and the sustained struggle of millions of protestors, who continue you to show extreme bravery and strength across the globe, making creativity more difficult, and more vital, than ever.