SOPHIA CHANTAL BRINGS “THE JUNGLE FEVERESS” TO VANCOUVER FASHION WEEK
by Vand Magazine Editorial Team The Greek-American designer arrived at Vancouver Fashion Week FW26 with The Jungle Feveress, a collection that is messy, torn, stained, and unapologetically alive. Fresh from winning Best New Designer at Athens Fashion Week for The Reigning Balkan Princess, Chantal brought her signature “Balkan maximalism” across the Atlantic, proving that imperfection […]
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AIM/AIMME AND KINTSUGI PHILOSOPHY AT VFW FW 2026
by Vand Magazine Editorial Team There is a Japanese art form called Kintsugi, the practice of repairing shattered ceramics with gold lacquer, transforming fractures into luminous seams. The broken object does not pretend it was never damaged. Instead, it declares: I have been broken, and I am more beautiful for it. This is the philosophy […]
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RICHARD WEI OPENS VFW FW 2026 WITH “CITY LIGHTS”
by Vand Magazine Editorial Team Vancouver Fashion Week FW26 begins not with spectacle, but with precision. Richard Wei, the Canadian designer chosen to set the tone for the season, arrives with City Lights—a collection that refuses the expected narrative of “Canadian fashion” and instead offers something far more complex: a study of duality, luminosity, and […]
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“DON’T LOOK AT US. LOOK AT YOURSELF.”
by Vand Magazine Editorial TeamAo Miyasaka brings “Death to Violence” to New York Fashion Week—a funeral for the past and a manifesto for the future. New York Fashion Week is often a spectacle of aspiration—a place where dreams are sold in silk and sequins. But for Ao Miyasaka, a 2000-born creator representing the new wave […]
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