Fashion brand Balenciaga has opened its first retail location in Berlin, which continues the brand's Raw Architecture aesthetic and boasts monolithic concrete slabs and distressed surfaces. More about Balenciaga designs concrete Berlin store to reference the city's modernist architecture
Sportswear brand Nike has announced its acquisition of RTFKT, a digital design studio producing trainers and other collectibles that can be worn across different online environments. More about Nike gets "metaverse-ready" with acquisition of virtual sneaker company RTFKT
Environmental organisation Parley for the Oceans has turned marine plastic waste from remote island waters into trophies for this year's edition of The Fashion Awards. More about Parley for the Oceans creates trophies from 3D-printed ocean plastic for The Fashion Awards
Experimental clothing brand Vollebak has used an ink derived from spirulina algae to colour this top, in a bid to show how fashion could move away from its reliance on black pigments made from heavy crude oil. More about Vollebak tints T-shirt using carbon-storing algae ink
Polish fashion designer Iga Węglińska has made two tops that change colour or flash with lights to help the wearer identify when they are feeling stressed or anxious. More about Emotional Clothing responds to the wearer's changes in stress levels
Designers and creatives, including architects David Adjaye and Dong-Ping Wong, have paid their respects to Off-White founder Virgil Abloh, who passed away aged 41 this weekend. More about Designers pay tribute to "fashion superstar" Virgil Abloh
Fashion brand Balenciaga has blanketed the interior of the Tank Shanghai museum in cream-coloured curtains for its first couture salon and showroom in China. More about Balenciaga transforms former aviation fuel tanks into couture salon in Shanghai
London-based fashion brand Auroboros has designed a dress made from salt crystals and recycled plastic that changes colour and shape in real-time, mimicking the growth of a flower. More about Auroboros' "living" Biomimicry dress crystalises and changes shape in real time
Dutch designer Nienke Hoogvliet has teamed up with entrepreneur Anne Boermans to launch Zeefier, a brand that will offer natural textile dyes made entirely from seaweed. More about Nienke Hoogvliet launches Zeefier brand to produce natural seaweed dyes for the fashion industry
American sportswear brand Nike looks set to create a range of digital fashion products after filing a range of trademark applications for virtual trainers and clothes. More about Nike set to develop virtual trainers
An experience of 24-hour surveillance led Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Hsin Min Chan to create a dress that exaggerates the "to-be-looked-at-ness" of its wearer. More about Hsin Min Chan's giant dress empowers its wearer by making them unapproachable
Genderless robes and puffer jackets feature in Season 0, a collection of exclusive digital garments created for the metaverse using The Fabricant's new online co-creation studio. More about Season 0 is the debut fashion collection of The Fabricant Studio
Digital fashion house The Fabricant has launched an online design studio in which users can create exclusive virtual garments to trade and wear in the metaverse. More about The Fabricant Studio "allows anyone to become a digital fashion designer"
Technologies such as blockchain and NFTs will usher in a new era of creativity where everyone has an equal chance of success regardless of their background, writes Amber Slooten of digital fashion brand The Fabricant in her manifesto for the Dezeen 15 digital festival. More about "In this future, a kid in Dakar stands as much chance as a kid in Paris" says Amber Slooten
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Laura Deschl has developed The Healing Imprint, a therapeutic garment that looks like activewear but is made to help heal trauma. More about Design and integrative therapy combine in Laura Deschl's "trauma-healing" garments
Design and physics researchers at Finland's Aalto University have worked together to create clothing with concealed solar panels, making the technology invisible to the naked eye. More about Aalto University researchers create jacket with hidden solar panels
Chilean architect Smiljan Radić has topped a car park in Tobacco Dock with an inflated bulbous dome for Alexander McQueen's Spring Summer 2022 show space. More about Smiljan Radić creates inflated transparent bubble for Alexander McQueen show
Italian fashion brand Sunnei has renovated the interior of an ex-recording studio to create a minimalist headquarters as a canvas for furniture and art pieces by the brand's collaborators. More about Sunnei transforms former recording studio into fashion brand HQ in Milan
Luxury fashion house Balenciaga has launched its Spring Summer 2022 collection with a fake red carpet event followed by a short film showing The Simpsons characters dressed in the brand's clothing. More about Balenciaga collaborates with Simpsons to launch Spring Summer collection
British sportswear brand Reebok has partnered with Eames Office to design a range of trainers informed by Charles and Ray Eames work and paintings. More about Reebok unveils Eames trainer collection