Fashion & Design
Fashion, product, furniture, architecture, graphics and type. Shape is a choice — we ask whose.
2026 International Architecture Awards Winners Revealed in Athens
The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies unveiled over 300 winning projects, chosen from an 850-project shortlist, at an event held at the foot of the Acropolis.
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Displaay Releases Cassette: A 42-Style Grotesk by Martin Vácha
Czech-based Displaay Type Foundry launched Cassette, a new typeface by designer Martin Vácha, in September 2026, arriving with three families and 42 styles.
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Dario Vitale Named Creative Director of Emporio Armani and Giorgio Armani Accessories
Armani Group's Milan-based announcement confirmed Dario Vitale as Creative Director overseeing Emporio Armani and Giorgio Armani Accessories, making him the first person outside the Armani family to hold the role.
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170 Years of the Trench Coat: Burberry's Archive Opens to the Public at the V&A
To mark its 170th anniversary, Burberry has partnered with the Victoria and Albert Museum for a free exhibition tracing the trench coat's journey from Victorian invention to modern runway icon.
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McLaren Unveils Evolved Identity Linking Its Racing and Automotive Arms
On 22 September 2026, McLaren revealed an evolved brand identity uniting McLaren Racing and McLaren Automotive, with a new wordmark inspired by the sign above founder Bruce McLaren's family service station in Auckland.
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London's Doors Open Wide: Open House Festival Set for 12-20 September
Running since 1992 and drawing around 250,000 visitors annually, Open House returns to unlock more than 500 buildings for free, no-booking visits—from 10 Downing Street to the Zaha Hadid Foundation archive.
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Henry Zankov Becomes DVF's First-Ever Artistic Director in 54-Year History
Henry Zankov opened New York Fashion Week on September 10 as Diane von Furstenberg's first outside artistic director, staging his debut on a windswept High Line runway built around a color-first design logic and the label's 'rebel' woman.
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Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Set to Open in Los Angeles on September 22, 2026
Designed by Ma Yansong, the museum founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson will house over 40,000 works, including a dedicated exhibit tracing costumes and concept designs from the original Star Wars vehicles.
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Alexander McQueen Bids Paris 'Adieu' to Return to London Fashion Week
The house will present its S/S 2027 collection on Sept. 20 at the historic Lincoln's Inn, marking Seán McGirr's first time showing McQueen in London.
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Herzog & de Meuron's China Archive Lands in Hong Kong for M+'s Fifth Anniversary
A ten-project survey of Herzog & de Meuron's work in China has opened at Hong Kong's M+ Museum, marking the institution's fifth year with a significant collection gift.
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A' Industrial Design Awards 2026 Opens for Entries
A' Design Award & Competition opened entries for its 2026 Industrial Design Awards on 20 August, with a 30 September deadline and results due in May 2027.
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Copenhagen Fashion Week Turns 20 With Its First International Guest Slot
Copenhagen Fashion Week's SS27 season, marking its 20th anniversary, ran 3-7 August with 36 shows and a first-ever International Guest Slot awarded to New York label Collina Strada.
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Collette Dinnigan and Saint James Reinterpret the Breton Stripe in Cashmere
Australian designer Collette Dinnigan has collaborated with French maritime label Saint James, in business since 1889, on a four-style capsule collection made entirely from cashmere.
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A Third-Generation Print Shop Gets Nine Logos Instead of One
Designer Laura Clink built a flexible identity system around nine interchangeable logos for Phillips Print, a third-generation family-run printer near London, rather than settling on a single fixed mark.
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When a Typeface Becomes a Character: Charlotte Rohde's Oficía Mono
Berlin-based type designer Charlotte Rohde has turned a font experiment abandoned years ago into Oficía Mono, a released typeface that has since become the protagonist of her forthcoming novel.
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A Touring Orchestra Gets an Identity Built From Music, Not Architecture
Amsterdam studio Thonik designed an identity for the touring Phion Symphony Orchestra grounded entirely in typography, using a variable-slant typeface that shifts with each concert's mood.
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Bates Smart Proposes Tower Above Sydney's Historic Shelbourne Hotel
A 79-metre, 140-room tower is proposed above Sydney's 1902 Shelbourne Hotel. The Bates Smart-designed scheme retains the heritage facade while adding a new rooftop bar and terrace.
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Instagram Redesigns Its Wordmark for the First Time in a Decade
Meta has refreshed Instagram's wordmark, unchanged since 2016. The new logotype and a three-typeface brand system will roll out gradually worldwide through 2026 and beyond.
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Why a salad chain built its website like a shopfront
Unfound Studio brought ordering, merchandise and catering into one interface for The Salad Project, on the basis that customers meet the menu before the door.
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A desktop mixer for skincare without preservatives
Meld, by Central Saint Martins graduate Beth Morgan Lundie, dispenses ingredients separately and mixes them at the point of use, with compostable cartridges.
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A 1986 door handle returns, this time entirely in metal
FSB has relaunched the 1138 handle Dieter Rams designed in 1986, replacing its thermoplastic components with an all-aluminium construction.
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July's new typefaces sell systems, not single shapes
The typefaces released in July 2026 share a method rather than a style: more variable axes, and signpainting or historical sources rebuilt as adjustable systems.
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Peace Eye: a fictional magazine printed on a Riso
Los Angeles artist Bijou Karman's Peace Eye imitates a magazine that never existed, combining collage, film photography and original drawing.
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Seventy-six schemes for Bodrum's historic windmill headland
An ideas competition for Gümbet's Değirmenburnu drew 78 entries, of which 76 were judged. The jury issued three equal prizes and five commendations.
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Turkey's 2027 Venice pavilion turns to spolia
IKSV received 43 submissions for the 20th Venice Architecture Biennale; the selected project is Devşirme Gelecekler by the ba-be commons team.
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A data centre stacked twenty storeys into a downtown block
SOM's Kansas City data centre rises 20 storeys on a 0.23-acre site, powered by on-site natural gas fuel cells and planned for future conversion.
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An Antarctic research base shipped in 113 containers
Kuryłowicz + Architects' Arctowski Station on King George Island houses 28 researchers, assembled inside a three-month Antarctic summer window.
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A crystal-shaped sauna on a century of contaminated ground
Bigert & Bergström's sauna in Skellefteå is built from around 280 faceted prisms on a site reopened after seventeen years of soil remediation.
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A youth uniform redrawn after asking 55,000 people
Girlguiding's first full uniform overhaul in more than three decades runs to 45 pieces, designed by HemingwayDesign and 80 per cent organic cotton.
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Shed fibres move from laundry problem to regulatory file
Production alone accounts for an estimated 92,000 tonnes of fibre loss a year, and regulatory timelines now run from France in 2025 to EU product passports in 2028.
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Harvey Nichols reaches the sale table carrying heavy losses
Turnover fell 11 per cent to £69.46 million while post-tax losses reached £177.63 million, as two bidders circle the London luxury retailer.
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An interior designer's eight-piece move into ready-to-wear
Kelly Wearstler's 29-piece H&M collaboration includes an eight-piece clothing capsule, launching 3 September 2026 online only.
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Twenty-two graduates weave their own cloth in Copenhagen
Swedish School of Textiles graduates showed SS27 collections at Langelinie Pavilion, where weaving, felting, knitting and machine embroidery did the design work.
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Atelier Guo Frames Yangshuo With One Concrete Roof
Atelier Guo's streamside restaurant in Yangshuo reduces its architecture to a single sweeping concrete roof that frames the karst mountains rising beyond it.
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Morimado: A Split-Level Timber House in Hokkaido
Yosuke Tomiya's Morimado house layers its interior across stepped levels, so each room frames the surrounding Hokkaido forest from a different height.
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Tan France Debuts an 18-Piece Range With Castlery
Tan France has designed his first furniture collection with Castlery, an 18-piece range whose real test is not the launch but how long it stays in the catalogue.
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Dansk Restarts in Copenhagen After Food52's Collapse
Form Portfolios has acquired Dansk following Food52's bankruptcy, moving the brand's creative base to Copenhagen and working with figures such as textile artist Kim Naver.
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Mur Mur Is Less a Speaker Than a Portable Place
Oio and Mattering's portable speaker Mur Mur is framed as a carrier for an ecosystem rather than an audio device, arguing for atmosphere over specification.
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Daniela Doe Translates Digital Type Into Tufted Yarn
Daniela Doe rebuilds screen-born typography in tufted textile, letting the resolution of yarn rewrite letterforms that vector software renders perfectly sharp.
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Sam Wenc Draws Album Covers by Hand for Indie Music
Sam Wenc produces hand-made covers for independent music releases, working for the physical object rather than the few hundred pixels a streaming tile allows.
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Heinz Mayo Goes Handmade in ChaChaanTeng's Identity
ChaChaanTeng built the Heinz mayonnaise identity around visibly physical, handmade marks, positioning the brand against the spread of AI-generated imagery.
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Adoratorio Rebrands Indice as Soft and Technical
Adoratorio Studio's new identity for eyewear brand Indice tries to hold two languages at once: engineering precision and the softness of something worn on the face.
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Runblock's Identity Shows Sunscreen Already Melting
George Fletcher and Tess Lockhart designed the branding for a sunscreen aimed at runners, making the product look as if it has already softened in the heat.
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Berlin Museum's New Identity Comes From the Street
Stan Hema built a flexible wordmark for the rebranded Stiftung Stadtmuseum, drawing its typography from U-Bahn signage and currywurst kiosks rather than the archive.
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RIBA's Housing Shortlist Puts Public Delivery First
Four schemes make the 2026 Neave Brown Award shortlist, and all of them were delivered through councils or public partnerships. The winner lands on 15 October.
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MVRDV Breaks a Culture Complex Into a Village
At Bihailou Art Village in Shenzhen, MVRDV splits a 6,500-square-metre cultural programme into separate volumes linked only by external stairs and open ramps.
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Harvest Moon: A Table Sourced Within 64 Kilometres
Charles Holland, Catharine Rossi and Local Works built a table from chalk, chestnut and apple wood gathered within a 64-kilometre radius of Canterbury.
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A Typeface That Human Eyes Read and Machines Misread
Mixfont's Decoy Font layers crisp letterforms over blurred background shapes, keeping text legible for people while confusing image models trained to parse it.
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