Interior designer Kelly Wearstler has teamed up with fashion brand H&M to design a clothing line, which launches this week together with her H&M Home furniture collection that was unveiled in Milan. More about Kelly Wearstler launches "relaxed and refined" fashion collection for H&M
Fashion brand Longchamp has introduced La Maison Unique, a clothing collection that draws on British designer Thomas Heatherwick's design for its boutique in Downtown Manhattan. More about Longchamp releases "architectural collection" informed by Heatherwick-designed store
Researchers in China have created a textile from living mycelium that is self-cleaning, near self-repairing and can be coloured or made UV protective through "plug-and-play" add-ons of different fungi or yeast. More about Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself
De Montfort University design graduate Safaa Fojdar has developed a prototype for a portable device that uses suction to remove wrinkles from garments on the go. More about Elide dewrinkler allows users to smooth out clothes while wearing them
Watchmakers Swatch and Omega have collaborated to celebrate the anniversary of the first moon landing on 21 July 1969 with a limited run of 1,969 watches, made of gold from 1969. More about Omega and Swatch release gold MoonSwatch in limited edition of 1,969
Clusters of balloons protruded from avant-garde garments at London designer Robert Wun's Autumn Winter 2026 haute couture show, giving the impression of inflatable-laden street vendors at a funfair. More about Robert Wun adorns couture gown with kaleidoscope of colourful balloons
Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen has unveiled her Helix Nebula dress during Paris Couture Week, featuring plasma-filled glass horns that light up in response to human touch. More about Iris van Herpen injects glass-covered gown with glowing plasma
On the heels of Rick Owens's fan-powered Adidas tracksuits blowing up at Paris Fashion Week, we've rounded up five examples of pneumatic outerwear that doubles as personal aircon. More about Five inflatable garments that use air to regulate the wearer's temperature
Tiny built-in fans help to circulate air around the wearer of these inflatable Adidas jogging suits, unveiled by fashion designer Rick Owens as part of his Spring Summer 27 menswear show in Paris during the city's record-breaking heatwave. More about Rick Owens creates Adidas tracksuits that double as personal airconditioning
Louis Vuitton creative director Pharrell Williams designed a 37-metre-wide wave structure as the scenography for the French fashion house's Spring Summer 2027 menswear show, which was powered by water from Paris's aquatic network. More about Jumbo tidal wave cascades through Louis Vuitton show in Paris
Researchers at Finland's Aalto University have salvaged 300-year-old wood from the wreckage of a cargo ship in Oulu, which was transformed into yarn and knitted into a zero-waste dress. More about This dress is made from the remains of a 17th-century shipwreck
Fashion designer Iris van Herpen has created a metamorphic dress covered in thousands of iridescent glass spheres that appear to gradually disintegrate for Olympian Eileen Gu, who debuted the garment at last night's Met Gala in New York City. More about Iris van Herpen crafts "dissolving" Met Gala dress from 15,000 glass bubbles
For years, sportswear brands Adidas and Nike have competed to design record-beating trainers. As Adidas wins the race to record the first official sub-two-hour marathon, Dezeen plots a brief timeline of the so-called battle of the super shoes. More about The race to create the ultimate running super shoe
Promotion: South Korean brand SYS has entered the US market with its collection of "precision-engineered" performancewear for men and women. More about SYS's performancewear is designed to "move with intention"
As a landmark exhibition on avant-garde fashion house Schiaparelli opens at London's V&A, curator Sonnet Stanfill walks Dezeen through five highlights and hidden gems you won't want to miss. More about Five key pieces to look out for in V&A's Schiaparelli exhibition according to its curator
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the Pickle Puffer, a gherkin-filled coat created by fast-food chain KFC. More about "Asteroid: I think it's time" says commenter
Fast-food chain KFC has joined the novelty outerwear arms race with a gherkin-filled puffer jacket, hooked up to a built-in straw for picklebacks on the go. More about KFC creates "unhinged" Pickle Puffer stuffed with gherkins
Fashion brand Prada has worked with local design studio 2x4 to cover a New York City store in functional seafoam-green scaffolding designed to shift visually with changing light and weather. More about Prada plays on typical New York scaffolding with mesh-wrapped installation
An office chair, a lighter and a close-up of a PDF on a laptop are among the everyday scenes hand-painted on canvases by design studio Formafantasma for the set of Marni's Autumn Winter 2026 show at Milan Fashion Week. More about Formafantasma creates "intentionally banal" set for Marni's Milan Fashion Week show
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