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The latest from The Citizen’s Poste spans longform features, interviews, and cultural commentary examining fashion and culture as systems: how they’re built, how they operate, and how they shape the present moment. We publish with intention, not urgency. That means fewer pieces, sharper thinking, and writing that assumes an intelligent reader. No trend-chasing, no filler. Start wherever you like. Stay as long as you want. This is fashion and culture for readers who prefer substance, clarity, and a little wit with their rigor.
Drawn to Craft: What the World’s Most Coveted Luxury Brand Can Teach Fashion Today
The landscape of luxury is the one often ruled by ephemeral trends, inflated marketing budgets, and quarterly reinventions, and it is in this landscape that Hermès has emerged, once again, as a silent sovereign. The French maison just released its first-half 2025 financial report, and, as expected, it reads not like a business update, but a quiet reaffirmation of everything Hermès is and everything other brands might hope to be.
From Spectacle to Stillness: Kate Moss for Calvin Klein
There are always two players in fashion: those who craft the image and those who become it. In 1993, Moss, then 18 and barely known outside of London’s casting rooms, stepped into Calvin Klein’s Obsession frame, and something changed; a campaign that would rewire the visual vocabulary of the decade. No gloss. No spectacle. Shot in grainy black and white, she stares directly into the lens, not quite smiling, not quite styled. “Be good. Be bad. Just be.” the campaign whispered. And with that, fashion seemed to listen: shedding ornament for honesty, polish for presence.
The Death of Personal Style (and How to Resurrect It)
From the Y2K obsession with low-rise, leopard print, Blumarine, and Paris Hilton, to the current 2010’s craze of micro shorts, high boots, Isabel Marant, and ‘indie-sleeze,’ we commodify fashion decades with increasingly shorter cycles. In fact, I’ve already been seeing ‘2019-style’ nostalgia edits on my TikTok For You page.
The Invisible Hands Behind Haute Couture
Have you ever looked at a couture garment and felt an overwhelming urge to touch it? You’re not alone. There’s something intrinsically tactile about haute couture—whether that’s a shimmer of a fabric or a meticulously placed bead. On the runway, every detail dances in the light and demands to be seen. After all, beneath each couture creation, lie hours and hours of human work. In a world of mass-produced and machine-made fashion, tactility sets couture apart. The human touch enables couture to come alive.
White Lines and Quiet Luxury: Fashion, Class, and Performance at Wimbledon
As the Wimbledon Championships 2025 draw to a close, its cultural impact feels prominent. The Championships might be one the most prestigious sporting events of the year, but its relevance in fashion is undeniable. With figures like Cate Blanchett, Hugh Grant, or David Beckham in attendance, Wimbledon has become a quintessential expression of British identity, where sports and fashion become equal. In the heart of South West London, this tournament projects class and luxury ideals through performance and personal style. Fashion has, for long, been dictating hierarchy, just as tennis itself has historically been a marker of socio-economic wealth. At the All English Lawn Tennis Club, both legacies combine and reinforce each other. Constrained by a strict dress-code, sporting brands have shifted the way they dress their players, making the audience follow, finding clever ways to subvert norms. Wimbledon leaves room for an interesting commentary to observe how this sport-fashion, and its evolution, both reinforces and subverts existing class hierarchies.
When Wintour Snow Melts: Fashion’s Most Coveted Role Is Open— On Linkedin?
It’s the end of an era. Well, kind of.
You’ve certainly heard by now that Anna Wintour is no longer Vogue’s Editor-in-Chief. After nearly four decades in control, the woman who turned the masthead into her throne has quietly stepped aside. She hasn’t left Condé Nast, her other titles, Global Chief Content Officer and Artistic Director, remain intact but her retirement from Vogue's top editorial role has marked a shift that goes far beyond semantics. We’ve approached the end of an era, yes. But we’ve also entered the beginning of a complicated reckoning.
For Her, By Him: When Fashion’s Feminine Ideal Is Man-Made
In the mythology of fashion, few things are more revered than the man who “understands women.” He’s not only dressing the female figure, he shapes, sculpts, and celebrates it. He just seems to get women. Or so the narrative goes. From Valentino Garavani’s timeless allure to Gianni Versace’s bold sensuality the legacy of menswear-designed womenswear has long been romanticized as a form of benevolent mastery. But in a moment when fashion is reckoning with gendered gaze and a grappling of power, it’s worth asking: who does this understanding really serve?
Martens at Margiela: Masked, Molten, and Metamorphic
Glenn Martens’ much-anticipated debut for Maison Margiela Haute Couture landed not with a whisper but with a plastic-cloaked cry. In a fashion week dominated by embellishment and classical beauty, Martens proposed something far more provocative—a vision of couture submerged in synthetic suffocation and the debris of modern life.
Zuhair Murad’s Girls Of The Golden Age
Zuhair Murad’s Fall/Winter 2025 couture collection doesn’t just pay homage to Old Hollywood: it unveils it, reframes it, and hands the star a new ending. Shown Yesterday in Paris, the show was a polished fantasy with sharp undertones. Strong silhouettes accompanied by satin and sequins, alluded to the traditional, reclaiming decades of the past, rather than mourning nostalgia.
Inside Chanel’s Fall/Winter 2025/26 Haute Couture Salon
The show opened not with drama, but with restraint. Presented in the newly restored Salon d’Honneur at the Grand Palais, the collection leaned into intimacy, as well as tradition This wasn’t a headline-hunting spectacle, but rather a quiet assertion of couture’s enduring values: silhouette, texture, and craft.
The Untold Stories of Ashi Studio
Every show begins with a feeling, this one began with dissonance. A melancholic dress moved slowly in tune with the echoing violin’s lingering notes. Silk, lace, rhinestones — recurring, shimmering anew. Your eyes flicker from one detail to another: animal motifs seem to breathe, blooming patterns that stir like gentle sighs, modern silhouettes woven into timeless shapes.
Armani Goes Dark: Seduction in Black
This collection managed to do so much with so little color, reinforcing the “Seductive Black” theme. Greyscale from head to toe, from black berets, to grey eye shadow, to dramatically black looks, the shimmering materials and striking silhouettes really had their time to shine. Striking, angular beauty, reminiscent of old Hollywood glamour through gelled back hair, drop earrings, and gowns dripping in sequins and feathers give a unique interpretation that reimagined an iconic fashion era.
Rebellion Against Disorder: Georges Hobeika at Couture FW 2025-26
In a world delicately poised between algorithmic hysteria and existential drift, Georges Hobeika proposes an unlikely antidote: The New Order— a lyrically crafted tension between self-doubt and determination, between the boundaries that surround us and our quiet refusal to remain contained.
A Bend in Time: Schiaparelli Opens Haute Couture Week in Surreal Style
After the slow drift of a 4th of July weekend, what better way to jolt back into reality than the start of Haute Couture Week? Some might have preferred to sleep in, but it's not every day Schiaparelli opens the week with a new couture collection. Plus, Schiaparelli always feels more like a dream than a runway show anyway, so what's the difference, really?
The Illusion of Freedom: Why Menswear Still Plays by the Rules
The dance between freedom and control in fashion is ongoing — and it’s far from equal. Menswear can flirt with softness or absurdity, but it is still expected to remain legible, anchored in some version of seriousness. Womenswear can slip into spectacle, but that spectacle often becomes an obligation, a demand to stay endlessly interesting. Fashion keeps circling this question, never quite answering it. Are these boundaries finally breaking, or just learning to hide behind prettier fabrics?
Crafting Femininity: Dior, Gender, and the Future of Fashion
Historically, most creative directors and designers for womenswear have been male. Women have consistently excelled in both of these roles, Like Vera Wang and Vivianne Westwood, yet still seem to be undervalued in a profession where their own gender is the target market. The gender of the designer plays a significant role in shaping the design itself, and the value in designing according to lived gendered experiences is not to be overlooked.
The Male Gaze in Stitching
When Anderson picks up the thread and needle at Dior, he inherits more than just a brand. He stitches into a gaze. After all, fashion is more than just fabric. It’s power, storytelling, and a question of who gets to hold the needle.
The Wrong Shoe Always Fits (Even When It Doesn’t)
There’s something quietly reassuring about contradiction. The way opposites cling to each other, not despite their difference, but because of it… Chaos? Not quite. Disruption. Contradiction. Curiosity. It’s a tension fashion knows intimately, especially when it comes to what we wear on our feet.
Scarves, Sisterhood, and Style: Inside DAïA’s World
Some pieces aren’t just worn— they’re inherited. They live in drawers, on hooks, passed between hands and across generations, gathering memory with every fold. DAÏA, a brand built on scarves and storytelling, doesn’t chase trends or seasons. Instead, it centers heritage: personal, cultural, and communal. Founded by Yelissah Gabala, DAÏA reclaims the scarf as both adornment and archive: a way to express identity, honor lineage, and offer beauty that endures.
Sensory Seduction: Textural Marketing and the Blurred Lines Between Beauty, Food, and Fashion
There’s a reason you want to lick the lip gloss. Or press your thumb into the pleated folds of that lemon-yellow handbag. Or reach through your screen and pull the martini olive-shaped earring straight from the model’s ear. Lately, it feels like everything looks good enough to eat, and that’s exactly the point.