This issue — read it slowly

Six columns; new pieces and old are all here. We don't chase the moment. We just explain each thing clearly.

Why has a designer of street clothes taken over a century-old fashion house?

Sixteen months, and this century-old house has changed creative directors again. The newcomer grew out of London's streets. What changed this time isn't a person — it's the brand's eyes.

November 7, 2026 · ANNONUS Editors · About 8 min

What happened

The brand behind one of the most viral moments in fashion — why did it stop, just like that?

The brand behind a moment that flooded everyone's screens has stopped, just like that. The cause of death wasn't design; it was a contract — it had handed the pipe its money flows through to somebody else.

November 7, 2026 · ANNONUS Editors

What happened

Before this pair of smart glasses even opens for pre-orders, it has released a film

The specifications aren't out yet, but the film has already premiered. What these smart glasses sell isn't a set of functions; it's a story you're willing to wear out of the house.

November 7, 2026 · ANNONUS Editors

What happened

Why has a designer of street clothes taken over a century-old fashion house?

Sixteen months, and this century-old house has changed creative directors again. The newcomer grew out of London's streets. What changed this time isn't a person — it's the brand's eyes.

November 7, 2026 · ANNONUS Editors

What happened

Going to New York for an exhibition next year? Learn one word first: extraORDINARY

Next year's big New York show is about a single idea: the un-ordinary inside ordinary clothes. The first thing it dismantles isn't an exhibit — it's the threshold in the audience's mind.

November 7, 2026 · ANNONUS Editors

A history lesson

A new column. Where a garment comes from usually connects to a stretch of art history — the length of a hem, the meaning of black, the silhouette of a uniform. Explain the origins clearly, and today's dressing gains a layer of meaning. One lesson a month, told slowly.

A history lesson

A skirt made of twenty metres of cloth: the outrage Dior caused in Paris in 1947

In 1947, Dior used a skirt made of twenty metres of cloth to provoke the age of rationing in public. It won fast — not because of the skirt, but because of people's hearts.

November 7, 2026 · ANNONUS Editors

A history lesson

One hundred years of the little black dress: from mourning and uniforms to every woman's trump card

A hundred years on, the thing in the wardrobe that still can't go wrong is that black dress. It says nothing — which is why it can go anywhere.

November 7, 2026 · ANNONUS Editors

Look closer

Fashion photography is really teaching us how to look at everyday life

The same coat, photographed hanging against white, reads like a manual. Move it to an early-morning street and you understand it. What fashion photographs teach isn't taking pictures; it's how to look at clothes.

November 7, 2026 · ANNONUS Editors

Wear it simpler

A week of commuting with no repeats — it isn't more clothes, it's three coats

No need to think about commuting clothes every day. Three coats on rotation and the inner layers ready, and the week's going out has its answer prepared.

November 7, 2026 · ANNONUS Editors

Wardrobe economics

The most expensive garment in your wardrobe may have the lowest price tag

Which garment costs most isn't written on its price tag; it's in the cost per wear. Run the sum once and you'll see: the true luxuries in a wardrobe are often the cheapest things in it.

November 7, 2026 · ANNONUS Editors

People Worth Knowing

This column is just getting started, and the formal people pieces are still being written. Start with the “People Worth Knowing” topic page — one piece centred on a person is already collected there.