Soraya has sat front row from Paris to Seoul for over a decade. She writes about clothes as culture — who makes them, who wears them and what they say about the moment. She leads Meridian Style's runway, trends and culture coverage.
From Thom Browne's tailoring theatrics in Milan to the set-design arms race reshaping fashion month, the men's runway calendar signals a season obsessed with structure, spectacle, and staying power.
From skinimalism's quiet evolution to K-beauty's global reach, editors decode the beauty shifts worth your attention this year — and the trends finally losing steam.
As resort trims meet autumn tailoring, the industry's newest cycle isn't a season at all—it's the overlap. Here's what the convergence of summer and pre-fall trend reports reveals.
From Paris to Milan, London to New York, the men's shows just closed a loop — tailoring loosened, borders blurred, and a new season calendar is already forcing houses to rethink the runway itself.
From dopamine-free skincare to K-beauty's slow-glow philosophy, the season's real trend is restraint. Here's the service guide to what's worth your counter space in 2026.
Runway spillover from Paris menswear, festival sidewalks and Nordic minimalism converge on a single message: texture and tailoring are winning over logos this season.
Between a 30-something who quit trend-hopping and the experts mapping next year's skincare shifts, one theme dominates: fewer steps, more discernment, and skin treated as an organ, not a project.
From Paris men's runways to ESSENCE Festival grounds, the season's street style consensus points to raw denim, Scandinavian restraint, and unapologetic color—often worn by the same person on the same day.
A survey of the men's and women's collections shows a fashion cycle converging on relaxed structure, texture-driven layering, and a quieter, more considered idea of luxury.
As the new season turns over, the wardrobes worth watching aren't chasing more trends — they're subtracting dated staples and betting on a handful of considered, wearable ideas.
Across New York, London, Milan and Paris, the A/W 2026 and S/S 2027 circuits revealed a shift from clothes-as-spectacle to staging-as-narrative, with menswear closing the gap on womenswear's theatrical ambition.
As Summer 2026 approaches, the fashion crowd's most-repeated looks reveal a quieter shift away from disposable trend cycles toward pieces built to outlast a single season.
From Milan's fluid tailoring to London's subversive layering, the men's runway season revealed a wardrobe rewriting the rules of formality, texture, and ease.
From barrier-first skincare to scalp facials and unfussy color moments, the beauty desk unpacks the trends editors and dermatologists agree will define 2026.
Beyond the trend-report noise, a handful of silhouettes and fabrics keep resurfacing on the people whose style holds up past one season.
From architectural stage-craft in Paris to London's genre-bending energy, the A/W 2026 season proved the runway itself has become as important as the clothes moving across it.
Barrier repair, ingestible glow, and skin-first makeup are rewriting the beauty rulebook for 2026 — here's how to build a routine around what actually works.
As the same handful of pieces cycle through every 'what cool girls wear' roundup, the real story is how fast consensus forms — and how quickly editors are already looking past it to fall.
From cavernous set architecture to a menswear season that finally caught up with womenswear, the A/W 2026 shows reveal an industry recalibrating spectacle, craft and commercial nerve all at once.
As legal scholars and craft communities push for protection frameworks, the industry faces a harder question than trend forecasting: who owns the motifs it monetizes, and what happens when they don't ask first.
Skin-first formulas, quiet K-beauty overhauls, and a mass unlearning of maximalist habits are converging into one of the most practical beauty shifts in years.
Runway signals and street style consensus point to a spring-summer season defined by unexpected pairings, quiet luxury holdovers, and a growing editor fatigue with over-styled maximalism.
As the trend cycle turns over again, the style set is trading tired holdovers for a sharper, more considered wardrobe. Here's what the shift really signals.
How the street's favourite colour, a disciplined capsule wardrobe, and denim's endless reinvention are quietly rewriting the rules of getting dressed this season.
Across this season's collections, a quieter revolution is unfolding: sharper silhouettes, atelier-grade construction, and a wave of debut designers rewriting the rules of ready-to-wear.
Across collections this season, a shared instinct toward architecture over ease reveals how ateliers are rethinking the body, and why the newest names on the schedule are the ones proving it.
The pendulum is swinging back from stealth wealth toward colour, logo and joyful excess — and the relief in the room is palpable.
In an age of visual sameness, scent has emerged as the most intimate and least reproducible form of self-expression we have left.
After seasons of maximalism, Paris turned down the volume — and somehow said more. A report from the front row of a week that traded spectacle for restraint.
A wave of young creative directors is taking the helm of fashion's storied houses, and the first decision each must make is what to do with the archive.
A photo story from the workrooms of Milan, where a season is built by hand long before it reaches the runway. Six looks, six decisions, one quiet revolution in cut.
Costume and fashion shows are drawing record crowds and reshaping how institutions think about the cultural weight of clothes.
The energy that used to radiate from a handful of Western cities now flows outward from Seoul — and the global wardrobe is following its lead.
A minimalist turn in skincare is finally grounded in real dermatological science rather than the maximalism of the multi-step routine.
Vintage and archival pieces have become the most coveted items in fashion, quietly dismantling the assumption that desire belongs to the latest collection.
After the ten-step routine came the backlash. 'Skin minimalism' is the rare beauty trend that asks you to buy fewer products — and the industry has found a way to sell it anyway.
The immediacy model is resurfacing — recalibrated for a slower, more deliberate luxury moment that no longer mistakes speed for desire.
Archive pieces are selling for record sums, museums are mounting blockbuster shows, and designers are raiding the vault. What does it mean when an industry obsessed with the new falls in love with the old?
The line between wellness, longevity research and the products sold as beauty is dissolving — and it is no longer clear which counter you are standing at.
Formal dress codes are quietly disappearing from offices, restaurants and public life — and what replaces them is more demanding than any rule ever was.
For years, sustainability in fashion was a marketing language. New rules and a more sceptical customer are forcing the industry to show its work.
More houses are showing their collections as one. The shift is partly philosophy, partly commerce — and it is changing how clothes are designed from the first sketch.
