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Brutus puts an 82,500-yen OUR LEGACY work shirt in its Best Bets selection and suggests wearing it with a tie. For a brand turning twenty, one that has meanwhile sold a stake to LVMH, it is the riskiest statement available.
Ten festivals, four continents: from Europe to Mongolia, Colombia to Japan. A DEAS map of July 2026 in electronic music.
On the 17th of June 2026, at 12pm, in Florence, a 42-year-old Japanese designer — trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, shaped as a pattern maker by Rei Kawakubo, known for garments that reinvent the structural logic of clothing itself — will present his Spring/Summer 2027 collection for a brand that has no gender, no fixed age target, no imposed seasonal rhythm, and no name in the sense that the fashion system considers essential.
For Cruise 2027 Demna closed Times Square and showed his most commercial collection yet: a permanent wardrobe built to restart Gucci in the one market that is growing.
Over 300 brands, 130 new labels, 46% international. White returns to Tortona while fashion week cameras follow the big names. But the conversation that matters is happening two kilometres to the west. CULTURE 26 FEB – 1 MAR 2026 WHITE MILANO / INDEPENDENTS Context / Culture — 26–28.02.2026
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