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.
When Transparency Outshines Impact: The Paradox of Fashion’s Sustainability Rankings
The Swedish multinational fast-fashion retailer H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB— better known simply as H&M— was ranked first in Fashion Revolution’s What Fuels Fashion? 2025 report this September. Yet both the public and the media seemed to have little to say about this rather significant news. Given the state of our world, that silence feels telling. Most outlets, including legacy fashion titles, appeared more concerned with the brand’s return to the runways during London Fashion Week for its star-studded S/S26 collection than with its supposed sustainability “progress.”
Virtue Signaling, Performative Males, and the Exiled Self: Consumerism’s Chokehold on GenZ
There is always some aesthetic to sought after, or some niche to have more dialed, and lately, this has been portrayed as a lack of originality—with especial hate directed toward “performative males.” Somehow it has become a trend to avoid trends at all cost; how ironic, how terribly human. But, must we condemn the performative parts we all have?
If There’s One Thing We Know About the Louvre Heist, It’s That the Internet Loves a Sophisticated Criminal
On October 19th, at 9:30 am local time, shortly after the museum opened for the day, four unknown suspects arrived at the Louvre with a ladder, power tools, and a plan. In A mere seven minutes, the thieves swiped eight priceless pieces, from crowns to brooches. And while the Louvre has physically lost the jewels from their gallery, they have simultaneously gained a commodity which may be equally as valuable: views.
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.
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.
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?
All eyes on Monaco: Where Quiet Luxury, Motorsport, and Cultural Capital Collide
More than just a race, Monaco is where legacy meets luxury. Crown jewel of Formula 1, the Grand Prix transforms the principality into an exhilarating mix of fashion, status, and spectacle for one unique weekend every year. From old money aesthetic to business opportunities, fashion has played a key role in Formula 1 over the past decades – and the biggest luxury and fashion brands are now scrambling to get themselves into the F1 paddock.
When Elegance Becomes a Cage: Why Cannes’ Ban on Nude Dressing Hurts More Than It Helps (If It Helps at All)
“Nude dressing” isn’t a scandal of modern vanity. It’s one of fashion’s oldest legacies. In ancient Greece, women wore translucent robes that flowed and clung to the body. In revolutionary France, sheer muslin gowns became symbols of liberation from corsets and control. In the 1920s, flappers danced in backless dresses. In the 1960s, miniskirts were weapons of protest. In the ’90s, Kate Moss wore a see-through slip—not to provoke, but simply because it was what she wanted.
Tailored Legacies: Dandyism Reimagined at the 2025 Met Gala
The first Monday in May, also known as Met Monday, marked yet another iconic evening as celebrities, musicians, athletes, and fashion icons gathered on the steps of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This year's Met Gala held particular significance, not only for its usual fundraising for the Costume Institute but also for the powerful theme of "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style." The exhibition explored the important role of clothing in shaping Black identities within the Atlantic diaspora, inspired by Monica L. Miller's book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.