Year: 2025

FASHION

Your Granny Called – She Wants Her Floral Prints Back: The New Grandma-Insiped Fashion Trend

You know those painfully loud florals that used to haunt your grandma’s living room, sticking to the walls like glue, wrapping themselves around sofas stiff as a board, and sparkling off disco-ball-

FASHION

The 2025 BoF Brand Pulse Index: Who’s Winning, Who’s Crying

Every year the fashion industry opens another report pretending to be ready for its heart-wrenching graphs. What comes next is pretty much the annual mini breakdown about who’s thriving and who’s

Photography

3 Ocean Photographers Creating Intoxicating Images

Words Kylie McDowell
Fuel your wanderlust with intoxicating images created by these 3 ocean photographers from far-flung places around the world. From Italy to Australia, each captures the awe-inspiri

Photography

The Colorful Fine Art Photography of Nick Meek

Words TL Team
British photographer and filmmaker Nick Meek grew up in the North of England, where the short summers and slate-grey winter skies inspired him to create imagery that explores the possibi

FASHION

Impossible Brazil by Fashion Designer Savio Drew

Words Francois Correia
Impossible, why? Because, if you were in Savio Drew’s shoes maybe it could be. From Brazil’s northeast estate of Piaui, the fashion designer grew up in the vastness of the B

FASHION

What to Expect at the 2025 Met Gala (Besides Emotional Support Stylists)

Once a year theatrics get a dress code, and that’s called the Met Gala. And it’s approaching, which means New York’s oxygen levels are about to be 50% hairspray and 50% anticipation. Creativity

Branding

Kyoto Cold Brew Coffee Visual Identity

Words Marta Knas
The visual identity for Kyoto Cold Brew Coffee by FLOV is an edgy reinterpretation of what a modern coffee roaster brand shall look like.

FASHION

A New Way of Understanding WA [Japanese meaning of Harmony]

Words Alisa Ota Tietboehl
Arimatsu Narumi, an area near Nagoya, in Central Japan is famous for the historic tie dye technique, called Arimatsu Narumi Shibori since over 400 years ago

History

Pop-Up Letters Set the ‘Alphabet in Motion’ in Kelli Anderson’s Playful Book

After funding on Kickstarter, this five-years-in-the-making ABC pop-up book about typography is widely available.
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FASHION

Another Week Another Fashion Shake-Up: New Creative Directors, Chairmen & Big Exits

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, in 2025 the fashion industry really did its big one with its game of musical chairs. Creative directors hopping houses, brands going on full-on busines