Paris · The SeasonOctober 20, 2026
FASHION & MODEL
The people and machinery of fashion.
The Cabine

The Cabine

The people: faces, scouts, dressers, and the mothers of the trade.

The House That Jeans Built

Acne Studios began as one discipline inside a Stockholm creative collective and grew into a global label with no conglomerate behind it. At thirty, it is marking the anniversary the way it started: denim first, friends in front of the camera.
By Ava Lindberg · 2026-10-18
The Acne Studios headquarters at Floragatan 13 in Stockholm, photographed in low sunlight.
Floragatan 13, the Acne Studios headquarters in Stockholm since 2019. The former Czechoslovak embassy, completed in 1972 to designs by Jan Bočan, now holds the design studio, the atelier and the fabric store of the house.

Curve's Second Act

The plus division grew from a side board into a real market. How it works, who books it, and where the ceiling still sits.
By Lena Moreau · 2026-09-29
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The curve board was once the agency's afterthought. It is now a market with its own agencies, its own stars, and its own economics.

Sample Size, Ten Years On

The industry promised to change what a runway body looks like. More than a decade after the documented commitments, an accounting of what changed and what did not.
By Lena Moreau · 2026-09-29
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The sample size remains the industry's default setting. A decade of commitments did not rewrite the pattern block.

Scouted at JFK

The most famous discovery story in the business is true. What the airport encounter that launched a supermodel explains about how faces are found.
By Ava Lindberg · 2026-09-29
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In 1988, at JFK Airport, Sarah Doukas spotted a fourteen-year-old Kate Moss at a gate. The most famous discovery in the business began with a boarding crowd.

The Coco Neige Cast

Matthieu Blazy's first Coco Neige capsule for Chanel arrives with a three-model cast: Elodie Guipaud, Feng Jiao Long and Lia Marie Mielke, in red, checked tweed and snow.
By Theo Almeida · 2026-10-16
A model in a red Chanel Coco Neige 2026 ski suit with blue and white stripes, standing with skis in the snow.
The campaign's opening argument: a red ski suit with graphic blue and white striping, worn over a cream turtleneck carrying the double C, skis planted in the snow. Coco Neige 2026 is built for the piste first and the city second, and the silhouette stays relaxed enough to prove it.

The Lagos Casting

A Lagos-made video recreating a Chanel show put Rachel Ojuromi on the house's radar. Three months later she walked its Spring 2027 runway in Paris.
By Ava Lindberg · 2026-10-12
Rachel Ojuromi walking Chanel Spring/Summer 2027 look 73 at the Grand Palais, Paris.
Rachel Ojuromi walking look 73 of Chanel's Spring/Summer 2027 show at the Grand Palais, Paris, on October 5: a yellow-and-grey tweed shirt with a matching midi skirt, in her own braids. Three months earlier she was recreating Chanel shows on Lagos streets with thrifted clothes.

The Men's Board

The other half of the industry works quieter: smaller fees, longer careers, its own stars. Inside the divisions that dress it.
By Ines Kovac · 2026-09-29
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The men's board is the industry's quieter half: smaller fees, longer careers, its own stars and its own codes.

The Mother Agent

Before the big agency, there is the first link in the chain: the scout in a far-flung market who finds the face, teaches the walk, and takes a cut for years.
By Ava Lindberg · 2026-09-29
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Discovery happens locally, one scout's eye at a time, in markets the fashion capitals will never cover themselves.

The Unmarked House

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen built a luxury house valued at a reported one billion dollars on an unmarked garment and a kept silence. The Row, twenty years after seven pieces and one perfect T-shirt.
By Juliette Moreau · 2026-10-18
A cream knitted sweater and long scarf by The Row on a mannequin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A Row knit ensemble on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the exhibition In America: A Lexicon of Fashion. The museum filed the house's unmarked, undated clothes under a single word: coziness.