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Editor's Letter 8 Estate Milanese - editorial 14 Artificial Intellingence and Fashion - 28 FASHION The Crow - cover story 34 Must Have: all the seasonal trends 52 Forward - editorial 72 Miomojo at Emmy Awards 2025: ethical luxury - interview 86 BEAUTY Zone - editorial 92 Real Beauty and Virtual: products for this fall/winter 108 Organic Synthetic - editorial 120 ART/LIFE When Silence Burns - editorial 134 Exhibitions not to be missed in this fall/winter 145 Beautalism - editorial 146 ACCESSORIES The perfect guide to this fall/winter's accessories 160 Soft Command - editorial 168
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EDITOR'S LETTER
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assword: maximalism. There’s a return happening — visual, emotional, and cultural. After years of subtraction and minimalism, comes the desire for more: more texture, more color, more life. Maximalism isn’t just an aesthetic trend — it’s a way of filling the space after having emptied it. A form of resistance in a world that has asked us to stay too quiet. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence enters our creative processes — whether we like it or not. We study it, we observe it. What remains authentic when everything can be generated? What does it mean to create, now? In this issue, we chose to move between excess and introspection, technology and humanity. We live in a time when staying neutral is no longer an option. Wars, injustices, oppressions — they can’t be left outside our pages, because they already live in everyone’s mind. To give voice, to spark reflection — that’s the first step not to disappear into indifference.
Editor-in-chief Facebook: @marta.forgione Instagram: @martaforgione
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ESTATE MILANESE Photography Veronika Orlova Style Manila Mariia Nikiforova Photography Assitance Federica Giglio Style Assitance Viacheslav Nikiforov Model Sasha Uvarova c/O The Wall Agency Makeup, Hair Style Anna Korn Video Ekaterina Shevtcova
When Milan slows down and the streets empty, summer turns into a play of excess, color, and lightness. Estate Milanese tells the story of a desire: to hold on to the most carefree season, to prolong its energy and vitality even among the city’s grand architecture. After years of minimalist style, maximalism has filled every new collection with retro touches. Accessories turn playful, and garments light up in bold tones that stand in contrast to strict urban elegance. Between bicycles, oversized bags, and statement sunglasses, fashion guides to experience the city as an urban playground. Because summer never really ends—if you know how to keep it alive.
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the Crow Dark and magnetic, The Crow embodies a woman unafraid of change. Her power is not only aesthetic but intellectual, with the ability to read the present and envision the future with clarity. She is the symbol of a new strength, one that doesn’t need masks to impose itself. The crow here is a metaphor of rebirth, of sharp vision and courage. Black as the night yet radiant in intensity, the protagonist embodies a feminine determination that breaks limits and redefines rules. The Crow is a manifesto of intelligence and power—an invitation to fly beyond fear and fight for your beliefs.
Photography, Video Genevieve Charbonneau c/o FUZE REPS Video Editing Alex Belair Style Randy Smith Style Assistance Emmanuelle Nèron Model Harley c/o Public Image MGMT Hair Style, Makeup Steeve Daviault Post Production Phyllis Papoulias Digitech Pascal Frechette Light Tech Xavier MacDonald Location Studio Simone p.12 p.34
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Extreme Maximalism Fall -Winter 2025 decisively marks the return of maximalism, the stylistic approach opposite to minimalism, which, instead of subtracting, chooses to multiply, accumulate, and layer. It is an aesthetic that does not fear excess; on the contrary, it celebrates it, transforming it into a declaration of freedom and opulence. This is not merely a trend, but a true visual philosophy reflecting our time: after years in which minimalism was synonymous with elegance and rigor, fashion now speaks to a collective need for authentic and radical self-expression, capable of breaking away from reassuring norms that dictated subtraction rather than addition. No more essential lines, neutral tones, or formal rigidity: fashion explodes in opulence, layering, and visual freedom, becoming a manifesto of an era eager to express itself without limitations. This desire is particularly strong among younger generations, the Gen Z, who perceive minimalism as cold and impersonal, and instead advocate for an aesthetic that celebrates identity and creative freedom without compromise. The new dictum is a clear call to more is more. As shown in the collections of Dsquared2, maximalism translates into a triumph of visual exuberance, blending nostalgic references from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s with pop culture and eclectic influences, coexisting without hierarchy. Alongside this cultural dimension emerges a strong tactile desire: deep velvets, precious brocades, soft eco-furs, and metallic surfaces intertwine with embroidery, fringes, and sequins that bring movement and three-dimensionality. The color palette reflects the same desire to surprise: intense and saturated hues – from bright red to electric blue, emerald green to golden yellow – as seen on the runways of Yves Saint Laurent and Gucci, coexist with deep, autumnal neutrals such as burnt ochre, chocolate, and plum. In this visual extravaganza, opulent prints and patterns also find their space, like Winter Bloom and oversized bows. Examples can be found in the collections of Marc Jacobs, Versace, and Etro, where dramatic volumes, floral and geometric patterns, animal prints, and baroque motifs merge into a fashion that is deliberately loud, guided by a single mantra: layering, which creates plays of proportions and contrasts. Accessories also become amplifiers of identity, enhancing personalization and upcycling. Vintage pieces, artisanal workmanship, patches, and epoch-mixing construct a wardrobe that is unique, intimate, yet theatrical, with details recalling the past. In this context, the return of the brooch stands out, transformed from a simple retro ornament into a true must-have from houses like Chanel, Dior, Schiaparelli, and Givenchy. Crystals, gold metals, and sculptural silhouettes make this accessory a distinctive statement piece.
Fall / Winter Trends 2025 - '26 words Martina Tondo
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Once a symbol of social constraint and rigid aesthetic standards, limiting comfort and freedom for the female body, the corset is now celebrated as a manifesto of creative expression. On the runway, it has appeared in countless variations: adorned with delicate lace and woven laces, illuminated with sparkling sequins, crafted in satin or brocade fabrics, always contemporary yet with a vintage soul. For the look we created, we paired it with a warm and enveloping palette, playing with trending caramel and coffee tones. The soft Balenciaga eco-fur, the Fendi Spy Bag in maxi size, and Cortana utility linen-blend trousers create a perfect balance of volumes, making the black leather woven corset by St. Agni with a V-neckline the true protagonist of the outfit.
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1. Genny F/W 2025 - '26 fashion show 2. St. Agni Strapless Woven Leather Bodice seen on modaoperandi.com 3. Fendi Spy large bag seen on modaoperandi.com 4. Louboutin shoes from fall winter collection 5. Cortana cotton linen blend pants seen on modaoperandi.com 6. Balenciaga Cropped Faux Fur Bomber Jacket seen on modaoperandi.com
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Women who work, create, and lead. Forward tells the story of female strength in all its forms: managers, mothers, young women, and professionals who pursue their dreams with determination and turn them into reality, despite the obstacles. It’s a generation of women who refuse to stop—because moving forward is the only possible direction. It’s not just about ambition, but resilience, reinvention, and the belief that every step is part of something greater. Their strength is both individual and collective: an energy that shapes the present and builds the future.
FORWARD Photography Genevieve Charbonneau c/o FUZE REPS Digitech Meriem Abbes Light Tech Julien Nercamp Stylist Sabrina Deslauriers Hair Style, Makeup Miles Petrella Model Folke c/o SYSTEM Agency Post Production Phyllis Papouliass Location Studio Simone
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Emmy Awards 2025 MIOMOJO brings a message of Ethical Luxury to the Giving Suite words Martina Tondo
On Sunday, September 14, 2025, the 77th Emmy Awards—the most anticipated television event of the year in the United States—took place. On this occasion, Latest interviewed Claudia Pievani, founder and CEO of Miomojo.
Miomojo was founded in 2012 in Bergamo with the idea that fashion and sustainability can coexist in harmony. From the very beginning, the brand’s goal has been to create accessories with the precision of Italian design and craftsmanship, without using animal-derived materials, combining aesthetics with ethical responsibility.
Personalities in order of appearance in the images: Elizabeth Banks, Hiroyuki Sanada, Angela Bassett, Aimee Lou Wood, Tracy Ifeachor
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How would you describe Miomojo’s style to someone who doesn’t know the brand yet?
«Miomojo is a luminous anomaly in the luxury landscape: clean lines, made-in-Italy design, and materials that tell the story of the future. It’s an aesthetic and at the same time an ethical language. We don’t follow trends; we create legacy». At its core, explains Pievani, lie values that are
«radical and non-negotiable: respect for animals, for the planet, and the conviction that beauty must always include integrity.» Your bags are cruelty-free and made from plant-based materials. How do you select raw materials?
«Since 2012, we’ve been a research lab. We collaborate with start-ups and innovation hubs, test emerging materials, and select only those that
have a truly positive impact. Surface-level sustainability is not enough: we seek performance, aesthetics, and respect..» Miomojo bags and accessories are made exclusively with innovative materials: from cactus leather to corn leather, up to the most recent UPPEAL™, derived from apple industry food waste. Some creations also employ recycled and regenerated materials, such as fishing nets, plastic bottles, or textile scraps, giving new life to resources that would otherwise be discarded.
«What was once waste becomes valuable matter, transforming into bags that embody desire and responsibility.» Pievani says.
Photographer Maxim Miller Models Eleni Löring c/o Modelwerk & Omina Designer & Style Jeremiah Hair Style, Makeup Natalie Arslan Post Production Jan Wischermann
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Real Beauty and
AI Editorial inspired by seasonal beauty trends and the exotic beauty of Southeast Asia Photography & Art Direction Marta Forgione
Virtual Words Martina Tondo Autumn 2025–2026 introduces an aesthetic vision that shifts between the digital and the tangible, between dreams and imperfection. The concept of feminine beauty is increasingly connected to technology and artificial intelligence: from makeup elements that can be digitally enhanced or removed, to filters suggesting looks to try on, and trends to experiment with through augmented reality, beauty and technology have become inseparable. Fashion runways have anticipated a language made of light, contrasts, and expressive freedom, where the futuristic mood is deeply linked to the digital glow trend. Born from the idea of radiant, healthy skin in the digital era, digital glow is supported by products such as supplements designed to counteract blue light damage, AIbased skincare technologies, and even marketing strategies that influence purchasing decisions. Makeup, in its own way, reflects this blurred line between reality and virtuality: silver glitter becomes an all-over tool to create skin that refracts light like liquid metal, or to achieve the pearly skin effect, a base with a texture inspired by the smoothness of pearls.
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And while Margot Robbie’s Barbie ultimately becomes a real woman at the end of the movie, leaving behind the rigid idea of beauty that confined her, in the beauty world the doll figure still remains a symbol for extreme femininity, a level of perfection designers are unwilling to abandon. Hence the powerful return of deep red lips, cheeks sculpted with Persian pink hues, and the face-taping technique. This practice involves applying transparent or colored adhesive tapes to the face in strategic lines to lift, sculpt, or emphasize specific features. Whether used as a nighttime ritual against aging signs or as a decorative design element worn throughout the day, perfectly face-taping embodies the era we live in: effectiveness becomes secondary, while the true priority is to desire and obtain the product of the moment, chasing the promise of instant results. On one hand, artificial intelligence fosters a fertile ground for creative experimentation, enabling trends to be customized to each individual. On the other, it carries the risk of aesthetic homogenization, where beauty standards and body modifications intertwine with the pursuit of an unreal image, filtered through seasonal trends that sometimes even impose permanent aesthetic changes.
LATEST BEAUTY l mondo della cosmetica è ultimamente protagonista di un cambiamento molto lontano dall’essere
Foto by Daria Shevtsova
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ORGANIC/SYNTHETIC Between natural fibers and artificial materials, Organic Synthetic explores the increasingly thin boundary between what is born from the earth and what is created by human hands. Fashion is always a laboratory of contrasts, where organic fabrics coexist with synthetic textures, and harmony emerges from the unlikely dialogue between opposing worlds. But is synthetic really just artifice? Today, new technologies pave the way for a vision of sustainability that doesn’t necessarily rely on the natural, but on innovation. In this light, the artificial can becomes a responsible alternative, capable of imagining a future where ethics and aesthetics are no longer in conflict but woven into the same fabric.
Photography Denis Gutierrez-Ogrinc Art Direction, Style Heather Newberger c/o Laird and Good Company Model Tuuli Tamm c/o Elite New York Hair Style Casey Geren c/o Atelier Management Makeup Remi Odunsi Set Design, Production Design Matthias Heumeier Production & Style Assistance Avery Rose
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Dress & Other Stories
WHEN SILENCE BURNS The time has come when silence is a luxury we can no longer afford. While a people is being erased, piece by piece, the world keeps moving — distracted, aesthetic, hyperconnected. Images of destruction slip between a reel and an ad campaign, and indifference becomes the real weapon of mass destruction. I created these images as our small act of resistance. Not to aestheticize tragedy, but to remind that beauty without conscience is mere decoration. To give a face to those who no longer have one, and to restore — if only for a moment — a sense of dignity to a land the world prefers to forget. And when there’s nothing left to destroy, perhaps someone will pose among the ruins, calling it art.
Photography, Art Direction Marta Forgione Created with AI
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EA BRUTALISM Photography Sara El Beshbichi Style Cristian Azazel Model Jagoda Blokto from WhyNot Models Makeup, Hair Style Serena Polh Style Assistance Margherita Bonometti
Brutalism meets beauty. Rigid architectural lines, cascading water, and lush vegetation frame an aesthetic balanced on the edge of extremes. The model, suspended between strength and delicacy, stages a visual dialogue that intertwines nature, structure, and fashion. Each shot is a clash of opposites: the fragility of a face against the power of concrete, the excess of makeup against the purity of water, couture elegance against the rawness of matter. BEAUtalism is a story of collisions that generate harmony, of tensions transformed into beauty. To look beyond appearances and discover that delicacy can exist even at the heart of brutality.
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Be the Protagonist of your story
F/W 2025 - '26
accessories words Martina Tondo
In Fall/Winter 2025, fashion accessories become narrative tools that reveal something more about the wearer. They convey the pleasure of tactile experiences through the return of soft details, shearling, fur, and plush textures that evoke warmth and protection, while at the same time asserting strength and presence with structured belts, oversized bags, and rigid shapes that redefine the silhouette over jackets and coats. Layered and monumental jewellery, animal prints, and retro references celebrate a true main character energy – because each of us is the protagonist of our own story. Every element of a look tells something about who we are, our personality, and the role we want to embody in the world: as the digital and real dimensions increasingly overlap, fashion accessories become an essential marker of identity. Contrasts and mix-and-match styling come alive in unexpected pairings: lace with leather, rigid with fluid, classicism with futurism.
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Opposite: Chloe leather ballet flats, The Row ankle strap shoes, Salondeju leather ankle boots |All seen on Modaoperandi
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SOFT COMMAND There’s a way of taking up space that doesn’t need grand gestures. It belongs to those who move with ease, without noise or excess display. Soft Command tells the story of this quiet strength — made of presence, gaze, and inner rhythm. In the wind that stirs long, fluid fabrics, in the sculpted shoulders of coats, in colors shifting between intensity and calm, a new kind of confidence emerges. It’s the silent command of someone who knows where she’s going — and doesn’t need permission to get there.
Photography Josh Upton Style, Casting Shuvan Khuntia Makeup, Hair Style Graziella Cawthorne Vella Model Hannah Vincent c/o W Model MGMT Style Assistance Bhavya Bhutani Special Thanks Lanabu Archive
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