-
3 weeks ago | 
tobemagazine.com.au | Hugh Barton |Carwyn Mcintyre |Mark Chu
“I was thinking about a kind of childish freedom. When you are young, you can live in a fantasy. Painted faces, being a character, pretending—that's what I wanted,” said Alix Higgins in the lead-up to his fourth Australian Fashion Week show. For the Sydney-based designer, bohemian ecstasy became a touchstone.
-
2 months ago | 
tobemagazine.com.au | Carwyn Mcintyre |Lola Mccaughey |Briony Wright
In 1952, Elsa Schiaparelli ventured to Fiera de Santana in Brazil, where she described being “dressed in a cowboy outfit embroidered with white butterflies... in [her] hands held a lasso to catch an invisible cow!” Shortly after the cattle drive, the Vaquieros, or cowboys, rode with Schiaparelli back to the corral. It was here that she was awarded the ‘Order of the Vaquieros,’ something she likened to a primitive rite. Why the cowboy discussion?
-
Feb 11, 2025 | 
tobemagazine.com.au | Alison Kubler |Grace Sandles |Rahemma Azwar |Carwyn Mcintyre
It was Karl Lagerfeld, creative director of Chanel for thirty-six years, who quipped that he designed in a manner of a computer, his methods like an Intel processor extraordinaire, as if he was ‘plugged into’ Chanel mode. Lagerfeld’s codifying of Chanel informed Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren’s designs for their Viktor & Rolf couture show. The pair mused that artificial intelligence could reinterpret the house’s archive, namely their use of bows and frills, trims, and notions.
-
Jan 26, 2025 | 
tobemagazine.com.au | George Howarth |Grace Sandles |Carwyn Mcintyre |Letti Koutsouliotas-Ewing
0 $0.00 0 items Set in an industrial garage lined with Filson posters, Junya Watanabe’s menswear show opened with a nod to tradition: hunting jackets, blue-striped shirts, and a beige wide-brimmed fedora that was rugged yet formal. This restraint didn’t last long. Watanabe’s signature subversive tailoring emerged, dismantling American staples with patchwork and jolts of unexpected colour.
-
Jan 26, 2025 | 
tobemagazine.com.au | Grace Sandles |Carwyn Mcintyre |George Howarth |Letti Koutsouliotas-Ewing
The town of Concordia, Italy, where Rick Owens has been producing his garments for two decades, informed his latest menswear collection, 'Concordians'. Departing from the grandeur of last season’s cinematic spectacle, Concordians focused on the essential. “I want to depend on fewer things, but make them as supernatural as possible," he determined post-show. At the all-familiar Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Owens leant into his signature strength: proportion.
-
Jan 21, 2025 | 
tobemagazine.com.au | Carwyn Mcintyre |Chloe Borich |Daphné Gosselin |Billy De Luca
In these times of sensorial overload, algorithmic and encoded bias, and predictive analytics determined by suits in boardrooms, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons turn to what American cultural critic Susan Sontag termed a ‘flight from interpretation.’Before the collection, a quick note on the primal notion: in circa 300 BCE, Greek philosopher Plato introduced the example of a pre-textual person, unaware of what exists outside of the cave: their hermetic environment.
-
Oct 8, 2024 | 
tobemagazine.com.au | Carwyn Mcintyre |Annabel Blue |Hugh Barton |Letti Koutsouliotas-Ewing
With lids lined and lashed primed, the eyes of the fashion and art world have turned to Antwerp’s MoMu Fashion Museum, where a new exhibition, Masquerade, Make-up & Ensor has recently opened. Ensor's depiction of masks and masquerades as a vehicle for social commentary and critical observation served as the inspiration for this exhibition, which spans visual art, photography, installation, interventions, and film to explore the role and function of makeup in our changing society.
-
Oct 5, 2024 | 
tobemagazine.com.au | Carwyn Mcintyre |Robin Starveling |Lola Mccaughey
On Tuesday, all eyes turned to Miu Miu to see how Micuia Prada would undo, reimagine, and reshape our vision of truth. This season, Mrs. Prada focused on the very word truth—or rather, the absence of it. She explored the baseless facts and unresolved ideas we cling to and manipulate across arts, culture, and society. Her collection, Salt Looks Like Sugar, was a clever nod to the idea that appearances deceive.
-
Sep 30, 2024 | 
tobemagazine.com.au | Carwyn Mcintyre |Sophie Martin
0 $0.00 0 items It is with amplitude that Jonathan Anderson has approached his Spring/Summer collection at the Spanish fashion house Loewe. Of the 59 looks presented, the most Instagram traffic and hubbub was generated for his use of hooped skirts with soft chiffon layered over. After the show, Anderson spoke of seeing an armour-like crinoline dating from pre-war America and how it had fascinated him.
-
Sep 29, 2024 | 
tobemagazine.com.au | Carwyn Mcintyre |Olivia Dougas |JW Anderson’s Lush
If these past few weeks in fashion have shown anything to us, it’s that concept is far more valued than construction. Fashion houses are throwing away everything they once cared about for artistic value. Rei Kawakubo of Commes des Garçons is no stranger to this approach. Arguably, she contributed to its invention. Since her debut show over forty years ago, her collections have always contradicted expectations of fashion and disrupted the norm of the Western world.
