August 4, 2025 |
TEN CRAVES IS OUR ONLINE SERIES THAT ROUNDS UP ALL THE BEST PRODUCT LAUNCHES AND MUST-KNOW FASHION HAPPENINGS WEEK IN, WEEK OUT.
Miu Miu’s Art Basel Blizzards
Braving the storm, Miu Miu announces 30 Blizzards, a significant new project by Turner Prize winning artist Helen Marten. Marking the cool-girl label’s second year as the official partner of the Art Basel Paris public program, this project also signals Marten’s first exploration into performance blending sculpture, video, choreography and sound.
In collaboration with theatre and opera director Fabio Cherstich and composer Beatrice Dillon, 30 Blizzards spins into a whirlwind of layered sound, depth and meaning, tapping into Miuccia Prada’s ever-curious take on femininity and the many stories women carry.
Marten’s piece brings to life a poetic landscape of human identity, weaving through time, language, structure and transformation and will be presented at the Palais d’Iéna from October 22 to 26. Saywa Akakandelwa
Dolce & Gabbana’s Clap House takeover
Get into the summer spirit and soak up the sun as Dolce & Gabbana bring their unmistakable flair to Clap House Ibiza with a vibrant DG resort takeover.
In Ibiza’s Talamanca area, AlphaMind’s latest venture sets the stage as Dolce & Gabbana reimagines its iconic leopard print, blending it seamlessly with the beach club’s décor to create a bold yet elegant spirit set around the island’s largest pool.
To mark the occasion, an exclusive pop-up store in soft tones of white and sandy beige showcases a curated selection of Dolce & Gabbana clothing and accessories, perfect for a summer of effortless elegance. Completing the experience, Clap Restaurant and Pool Club serve up world class dining with contemporary Japanese cuisine infused with Mediterranean tastes, all set against breathtaking views of Ibiza. Don’t miss it; book your stay here. SA
Sarabande’s Summer Group Show
This summer, Sarabande Foundation presents Sincerely, a powerful group exhibition that brings together 20 resident artists from its Haggerston and Tottenham centres in a bold culmination of a year spent experimenting, refining and breaking boundaries.
Across a six-week run, Sincerely unfolds in two parts: To (July 31 to August 15) and From (August 19 to September 5), showcasing two groups of ten artists each. The artists’ works span a wide spectrum – from Beverley Duckworth’s living, evolving sculpture to Shan Hua’s experimental digital pieces, and intricate paintings and designs that explore themes of intimate pleasure, including Françoise striking latex work encasing her own blood. Painters like Christian Hiadzi and Jan Urant offer dreamlike scenes: Hiadzi contrasts shadowy, near-monochrome figures with bursts of vivid colour, while Urant builds emotional landscapes through layered pigments and textures. Here, writing moves beyond the page: it’s drawn, carved, embroidered, projected and suspended, forming a bold visual language of connection. SA
Robyn Lynch lands at Brown Thomas
After a brief hiatus, Robyn Lynch is back at Brown Thomas. Having last showcased her work at the department store prior to the pandemics, the Irish designer is marking her return to retail not only with a curated capsule of her foundational pieces but with a bold in-store installation.
The collection itself builds on Lynch’s identifiable archetypes and reworks them into hoodies, jerseys, caps and cargos while its palette offers muted hues like blacks and browns, accentuated with Dublin blue and slashes of red, reminiscent of Lynch’s home city and her signature use of tone and contrast. Taking centre stage is a graphic adaptation of an 18th century Saxon alphabet that spread across the collection. Deriving from a French manuscript from the Abbey of Saint-Ouen in Rouen, it offers a nod to Ireland’s calligraphic heritage and the crossover of language, symbolism and textiles. Shop the drop here. Tommy Dowling
Palace Gets Witty in Its Autumn 2025 Collection
Beloved streetwear maestro Palace has released its autumn 2025 lookbook and it features a bold collision of wordplay graphics and sports-led designs.
Shot by seasoned fashion photographer Theo Sion, the collection flaunts a more cheeky approach to dressing from the brand. Witty plays on words are printed onto Palace’s go-to silhouettes: a boxy T-shirt with a ‘Palais Texas’ number plate graphic, a scarf representing everyone’s favourite football team ‘Equip De Palau’ and of course merch from that well know Ivy league college ‘PAL’. A garish yellow Avirex x Doraemon leather jacket continues Palace’s playful tone whilst pushing the brand in a fresh, collaborative direction. Katie Minto
Brioni Teams Up With Como 1907 To Add An Italain Savoir-Faire To Football
Roman maison Brioni has teamed up with Italian football club Como 1907 to bring exclusive creations to the 2025-2026 football season.
Garnering its reputation for effortlessly embodying modern elegance by dressing Hollywood’s most beloved heartthrobs – Jude Law, Brad Pitt and Matthew McConaughey to name a few – Brioni is now lending its sartorial excellence to the world of football. Starting off with the launch of the new Brioni suit, several members of the Como team are seen sporting the navy double-breasted suit in Solaro fabric whilst, in the accompanying video, strolling around an Italian villa. As the football season unfolds, this fitting partnership will go on to showcase a series of anticipated initiatives exhibiting the maison’s ongoing commitment to the long-term relationship between fashion and sports. KM
Dior Maison Gets Personal
Dior Maison has launched an unprecedented personalisation service you won’t want to miss. Exclusive to a selection of its famed pieces in Limoges porcelain, punters can choose from a rich palette consisting of 35 colours from peacock blue to pistachio green to deck out the home goods however they so choose.
Enhancing this exclusive offering the house has married two classic lines of Dior Maison excellence: Cannage, which presents a graphic symbol that’s been with the brand since Christian Dior’s first show, and Toile de Jouy one of its most beloved and timeless signatures memorialising the French heritage of 18th century decorative arts. Choose between these two emblematic patterns to dress your Limoges porcelain pieces.
Sprucing up traditions, the new service offers the possibility for your tableware to enter into the realm of art de vivre. KM
Aro Archive Puts on Comme Des Garçons Exhibition
Aro Archive, London’s largest fashion archive is unveiling an exhibition and pop-up shop of its most sought after Comme Des Garçons pieces within its French Place space.
Presented in a celebratory light, for three weekends Aro Archive has offered up the top floor space of its Shoreditch shop to show off the lust-worthy collection of CDG pieces. The first weekend opens with The Crows delving into the “lore and legacy” of the brand’s devoted fanbase whilst presenting early Comme collections featuring warped fabrics and deconstructed tailoring. The second weekend explores the house’s whimsical playfulness and the impact of the SS97 collection Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body a.k.a the Lumps and Bumps collection noted for turning shoulder pads on their heads. The final weekend offers up garments that unpick deconstructed shapes and tailoring to reimagine raw materials – the brand’s beloved approach to clothes.
Promoting the exhibition, photographer Joseph Delaney and stylist Matt King have created a series of photos featuring cellist Lucinda Chua sporting the archive’s CDG collection, each photo translating the energy of the garments. KM
Junction 2’s Riveting Return
What a weekend it was! Junction 2 returned to Boston Manor Park for an ace three-dayer stuffed with stellar sets from the best names in dance music. We headed down for the Sunday where we were treated to the eclectic house stylings of Midland, a surprise B2B from Bashkka and D. Tiffany and a mind-bogglingly good 90 minutes from Saoirse at the festival’s impressive Bridge stage, tucked beneath the M4, which perfectly hit its peak just as the Lionesses’ beat Spain at penalties to take home the Euros. Ace stuff all around. Paul Toner
Top image: photography by Joseph Delaney.
