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In the latest issue of AnOther Magazine, the costume designer talks to Alexander Fury about the history of fashion This article is taken from the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of AnOther Magazine:“I didn’t want to be a couturier at first, I wanted to design for the stage. When I was a child I was drawn not to women’s fashion but the history of fashion. If I have had one thing in mind my whole life, it’s this utopian idea that the past can come back.

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PhotographyMatthieu LavanchyTextAlexander FuryLead Image This story is taken from the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of AnOther Magazine:Cartier is probably the most famous jewellery company in the world. That’s because its name means more than just diamonds and pearls – it’s part of history. Established in 1847, the house had only been in business a year when the July Monarchy was deposed in France’s February Revolution; the foundation of Napoleon III’s Second Empire came in 1852, barely five years in.

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At Saint Laurent’s Autumn/Winter 2025 show, Anthony Vaccarello referenced the house’s forgotten moments, rather than its greatest hitsLead Image “A sensitive body, inside strong clothes.” That was Anthony Vaccarello’s statement, backstage, before his Autumn/Winter 2025 Saint Laurent collection – the closing shot of Paris Fashion Week, and the main drag of the season as a whole.

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Lead Image Femininity has always fascinated Miuccia Prada – in fact, make that femininities. Because the idea is never static nor fixed, and she avoids all cliché, consistently excavating our ideas of what it means to be a woman, and her own personal experience. It was the foundation of the Autumn/Winter 2025 Prada show she designed two weeks ago alongside Raf Simons in Milan, and “femininities” was the title she gave to her latest collection. It’s an idea she isn’t ready to let go of.

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Lead Image The fil rouge at the Autumn/Winter 2025 Chanel show was actually a black ribbon – they were knotted into a bow on every invitation and then, blown up big, became a set piece created by scenographer Willo Perron that swirled, against gravity, into the air around the models. Black ribbons have been at Chanel since the very beginning: Gabrielle Chanel knotted them around the stark, simple hats she started her career with at the beginning of the last century.