Post by Aleksandra O.

July arrives, as it always does, with a certain amount of beautiful chaos. Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode Paris Haute Couture Week opens on the 6th, and I will be there — not for the spectacle alone, but for the two shows I have been thinking about since the calendar dropped. STEPHANE ROLLAND PARIS is taking his couture to L'Olympia on the 7th, with every ticket sold to the public and every euro going to the Fondation Hôpitaux. It is a charity show open to any couture aficionado willing to book a seat — which is, quietly, a radical act in a world built on exclusion. I find that extraordinarily moving. Then there is Sylvio Giardina, presenting at the Musée de Cluny - musée national du Moyen Âge, a designer who describes himself as artist and architect as much as couturier. His collection Mon Seul Désir begins with The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries — not as reference, but as a point of tension, asking what desire looks like when it refuses to explain itself. Ten garments. A medieval museum. I cannot wait. And of course, SCHIAPARELLI . They have opened Paris Couture Week in recent seasons, and at this point it feels less like scheduling and more like ritual — which is exactly as it should be. Before Paris, though, Berlin. Berlin Fashion Week runs July 2 to 5, and if you are still sleeping on it, don't. Around 30,000 visitors attended the last edition, with international press and buyers arriving from across the world. This is where sustainability isn't a panel topic — it's baked into the DNA. Where designers from Nigeria, Japan and Ukraine share a calendar with Berlin's own emerging talent. It is messy and alive in the way fashion should be but rarely is. And then, later in the month, something that genuinely delighted me: Teen Vogue Fest returns to NYC on July 25 — for the first time in nearly eight years — with a full day of performances, conversations, and cultural moments. The next generation of fashion obsessives, gathering in New York. I think that matters more than we give it credit for. Also on this month's radar: Pierpaolo Piccioli at Balenciaga, Manish Malhotra's historic Paris couture moment, the rise of independent jewelry sculptors, and why men's tailoring is quietly running women's street style right now. July, in short, is not a month to look away. 📷️ Le musée de Cluny