Former fashion designer and artist Diana Orving transforms textiles into living, breathing sculptures that inhabit and redefine space. Through her work, the artist is shaping immersive and sensory environments: “I think fashion could learn from architecture’s structural thinking, and architecture from fashion’s intimacy and adaptability. If both moved toward softer, more responsive systems—adaptable skins, living structures—we might dress and build in ways that are more human.”

A. Young’s Point-and-shoot column returns in July and this time in Bangkok!

Fashion scholar and curator explores how Afro-Brazilian dress traditions challenge dominant fashion narratives- from politics of archives to the transformative power of craft: “I’m particularly interested in how garments, family photographs, and oral histories can function as counter-archives, opening space for other narratives and timelines to emerge, especially those rooted in Afro-Brazilian experiences. These projects are both academic and personal, and I hope they can contribute to a broader conversation about what we consider as legitimate sources of fashion history.”