COURTESY: C JEAN Fashion Week Tokyo has long provided a platform for designers whose work doesn’t fit neatly into the traditional fashion capitals. This season, Taiwanese designer Chun-Yuan Jean […]
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A.PRESSE × Supreme: When Japanese Precision Meets New York Streetwear
COURTESY: supreme.com/news/ Some collaborations are designed to create noise. Supreme and A.PRESSE are taking a quieter approach. The New York streetwear institution has partnered with Tokyo-based A.PRESSE for Fall […]
Sabyasachi Has a Different Idea of Luxury
COURTESY: SABYASACHI.COM At a time when celebrity dressing has become one of fashion’s most powerful marketing tools, Sabyasachi Mukherjee is questioning whether luxury has become too available. The Indian […]
Filipino Fashion Takes Tokyo
Filipino fashion is continuing to expand its presence on the international runway. During the recently concluded Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo Spring/Summer 2027, Rhett Eala, Joey Samson, and Jaggy Glarino […]
More Than Retail: LANG Is Building a New Kind of Asian-American Fashion Space
COURTESY: LANG In Los Angeles, a new boutique is making the case that fashion retail can be about more than what hangs on the rack. Founded by Kayla Wong, […]
Zane Li’s Lii Takes Home One of Fashion’s Biggest Prizes
COURTESY: Lii Sometimes the designers making the most interesting luxury fashion aren’t the ones making the most noise. Chinese designer Zane Li, founder of New York-based label Lii, just […]
Naomi Osaka Is Changing What a Tennis Uniform Can Be
Naomi Osaka has never treated fashion as separate from sport. At the 2026 US Open, she took that idea further, turning each entrance onto the court into its own […]
Can an Asian Brand Redefine the Global Luxury Power Structure?
For decades, the global luxury system largely followed one direction: Asian consumers looked toward European fashion houses. The appointment of Sabato De Sarno as creative director of Chinese label […]
MAABAE’s CULTURECLUB Celebrates the Objects That Connect Us
Photo courtesy of MAABAE CULTURECLUB For Los Angeles-based jewelry brand MAABAE, culture has never been something that fits neatly into one category. Founded by Tanya Myers-Shah, MAABAE was created […]
Three AAPI Designers to Watch This Fashion Month
Three AAPI Designers to Watch This Fashion Month As the Spring/Summer 2027 collections approach, fashion month once again moves through New York, London, Milan, and Paris. Beyond the industry’s […]
Designer Spotlight: Puey Quiñones
For Filipino designer Puey Quiñones, fashion has always been about evolution. Born in Bobon, Northern Samar, in the Philippines, Quiñones’ path into fashion was far from conventional. He initially […]
Rewriting the Rules: How AAPI Men Are Expanding the Language of Masculinity
For generations, Asian and Pacific Islander men have occupied a narrow space within Western culture often overlooked, stereotyped, or reduced to a limited set of narratives. Fashion, however, has […]
