Fresh Off the Press: Latest Articles from The Citizen's Poste
A curated perspective on style, beauty, and cultural currents. From thoughtful trend commentary to insights behind the scenes, this is your front-row seat to the ideas and stories shaping modern fashion, culture, branding, and lifestyle.
The It-Girl Is Everywhere— But Does She Still Matter?
Once upon a time, the It-Girl was an exclusive symbol of unattainable cool— crowned by fashion houses, worshipped by glossy magazines, admired from afar. Think Kate Moss in the ’90s (heroin chic, but somehow aspirational), Alexa Chung in the 2010s (the reason we all wore Peter Pan collars), or Brigitte Bardot before them. They were the blueprint: impossibly stylish, a little intimidating, and always out of reach.
Get In, Loser! We’re Learning About Chebula: Talking Skin, Science, and Storytelling with Jana Kleemeier
It takes a certain kind of confidence to make antioxidants feel aspirational. But True Botanicals did exactly that with their new Mean Girls-inspired Chebula campaign, a playful ode to the often mispronounced ingredient (it’s “CHUH-BOO-LAH,” by the way) quietly powering half of Hollywood’s glow.
Valentino SS26: Fireflies and the Politics of Perception
At Valentino’s Spring/Summer 2026 show in Paris, the lights went out before they came up. Pamela Anderson’s voice filled the Arab World Institute, reading a 1941 letter by Pier Paolo Pasolini, a young poet describing fireflies as fragile but luminous acts of resistance in an era of fascist darkness. That letter became the conceptual nucleus of Alessandro Michele’s second collection for the house: Fireflies.
Kitschy Couture: When Fashion Becomes Sculpture
Haute couture has long been hailed as the pinnacle of fashion, craftsmanship and artistic vision. Often described as sculpture in fabric form, it gave us Charles James’s clover-inspired gowns and architectural silhouettes that could fold into a New York City yellow cab, or Mariano Fortuny’s pleated Delphos inspired dresses, recalling Grecian columns and fluid drapery... Couture once signified femininity, excess, and status, a six to eight month process culminating in a one-of-a-kind gown, priced like a small fortune.
You’re Not The Only One on Resy: Why Every Fashion Brand Suddenly Wants a Table in New York
On an upper floor of Bergdorf Goodman, there is a historical artifact: the department store restaurant. Art Deco details, like gilded accents on crown molding and chrome-rimmed bar stools, are reminiscent of the glamorous aesthetics found throughout this New York City landmark. Today, fashion brands have replaced the curated department store as the destination of dreams and desires— and that increasingly includes dining venues. But what does it reveal about the future of the fashion industry?
That Sweater is Not Just Blue: How Fashion Dictates Taste (and Why You Don’t Even Notice)
You didn’t choose that aesthetic. That aesthetic chose you… By the time you saw the “boho chic” look trending on TikTok, the trend had already moved through the system: from forecasting deck to runway, to meticulously curated Pinterest moodboards, and finally, to your algorithmically engineered for you page. Money was spent. Samples were pulled. You liked it before you even had time to ask why. Fashion has always carried large connotations of influence, but in today’s digital landscape, it’s becoming something closer to an auto suggestion. What you wear no longer reflects mere “personal taste”; it reveals how well you’ve absorbed what was predicted, packaged, and served to you a year ago.
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?