Fashion Hot List

One of our biggest scoops of 2015 was our exclusive interview with leading trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, who announced that "fashion is dead". The provocative interview, in which she described fashion as "a ridiculous and pathetic parody of what it has been," was widely reported by other

Features

Can data centres ever be well-designed?

With AI driving demand, vast data centres are increasingly in the news as people question the impact on local environments. Can architects help to make these buildings look and function better?
Why stadium design is getting more outlandish

Stadiums are becoming more distinctive with clubs and countries using them to attract attention. As part of our Future Stadium series, we look at why stadium design is becoming more icon-focused.
How a Facebook post led to the resurrection of a space-age architectural icon

A Matti Suuronen Futuro House has been manufactured for the first time in decades and decked out by Finnish design brand Marimekko for Helsinki Design Week.
How craft conquered design

Craft has become cool, while industrial design has lost its sparkle. What's driving the trend? And are they really so different? Debika Ray reports.
Big-name studios encouraging architects to use AI

The world's most prominent architecture studios are embracing AI for everything from coming up with designs to project analyses and reports, Dezeen research has found.
How stadiums are turning into entertainment districts

As developmental models for sports venues shift, architects and planners are being tasked with designing vast districts to support year-round activity. For our Future Stadium series, we look at the rise of the sports district and some factors driving the change.

More stories

COS

Swedish fashion house COS – a firm favourite with the creative set – has aligned itself closely with the design world over the last few years, presenting installations during Milan Design Week and hiring cutting-edge architects for popups and permanent stores. It even teamed up with Danish design brand

Iris van Herpen

Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen works with cutting-edge materials and techniques, in particular exploring how 3D printing can be harnessed to make clothing.

Issey Miyake

Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake turns 79 next spring but his brand is still a major player. This year the fashion house unveiled a new technique for pleating fabric that involved applying glue and baking garments in an oven. Our post about the resulting Spring Summer 2016 collection was one

Camper

Brands such as Aesop and Dior have made a point of commissioning different architects to design their stores around the world, but the pioneer of this approach was Spanish footwear brand Camper.

Valentino

Dior

Legendary French fashion house Dior has been busy over the past few years commissioning new stores around the world from a range of different architects. Our readers have noticed, and propelled the 70-year-old brand to number three in our fashion list.

Acne Studios

We only wrote one story about Swedish fashion house Acne Studios, but it was popular enough to earn it a place in our Hot List.

More stories

Paul Smith

British fashion designer Paul Smith regularly crosses over into the world of design, applying his signature stripes most recently to Gufram's iconic cactus coatstand.

Prada

Italian fashion house Prada has a close relationship with Dutch architect OMA and its research arm AMO, and its position on our Hot List is almost entirely down to the work the brand has done with the sister companies and their founder, Rem Koolhaas.

Chanel leads our Fashion Hot List, ahead of COS and Dior

Dezeen is not a fashion site but we cover the topic when we think a collection is interesting enough for our designer audience, or when the brand collaborates with architects and designers from a non-fashion background.

Chanel

Founded in 1909, Chanel is one of the most revered fashion brands in the world, but it doesn't tend to crop up on our design radar too often. However it has stormed its way to the top of our fashion list this year thanks to a single project: Crystal Houses, its