This week on Dezeen, we showcased supermarket chain Aldi's Jacket Potato Jacket, a puffer jacket complete with a silver foil poncho as an ode to steaming baked potatoes. More about This week Aldi unveiled a puffer jacket that looks like a giant potato
Sheep wool was presented in a new light in the Dutch Design Week exhibition Wool (Re)discovered, which aimed to get visitors talking about Europe's unloved fleeces. More about New Order of Fashion embraces Europe's "valueless" wool in Dutch Design Week exhibition
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a puffer coat that resembles a giant baked potato, created by supermarket chain Aldi and London fashion brand Agro Studio. More about "Another half-baked idea" says commenter
Supermarket chain Aldi has teamed up with London fashion brand Agro Studio to create a puffer coat that resembles a giant baked potato. More about Aldi unveils jacket potato jacket complete with silver foil poncho
In a bid to reimagine "unpleasant and seemingly worthless" waste, Central Saint Martins graduate Olivia Gino has transformed cigarette butts into a shearling-style hat. More about Olivia Gino turns waste cigarette butts into fuzzy hat
Some of Johannesburg's most promising young designers joined forces for an exhibition at Design Week South Africa, using locally found and discarded materials to rewrite the narrative about their city. More about Emerging Johannesburg designers turn the city's rags to riches in The Price of Gold exhibition
Ahead of its 30th anniversary, Acne Studios founder Jonny Johansson explains why customers don't influence the fashion brand's sustainability decisions in this interview. More about "It's more difficult being a small brand today" says Acne Studios founder
Barbican curator Karen Van Godtsenhoven and assistant curator Jon Astbury discuss the subversive role of dirt in fashion in this video produced by Dezeen to mark the opening of the London cultural centre's new exhibition. More about Barbican exhibition Dirty Looks explores the "disruptive" potential of dirt
The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York has brought together work across various disciplines for an exhibition on accessible and inclusive design, including a colourful rolling closet that neatly displays donated clothing. More about Adapt/Evolve in New York showcases "empathy" in designing for accessibility
Fashion designer Stella McCartney showcased the "world's first" plant-based alternative to feathers for the grand finale of her Spring/Summer 2026 show at Paris Fashion Week. More about Stella McCartney debuts plant-based faux feathers at Paris Fashion Week
Milanese design studio 6AM has created candy-like Murano glass cubes "reminiscent of stone architecture" for the debut collection of Bottega Veneta creative director Louise Trotter. More about 6AM designs colourful Murano glass stools for Bottega Veneta fashion show
Designer Marc Newson has made his first foray into runway sets, combining blocks of 101 different colours into an undulating terrain to host Fendi's Spring Summer 2026 presentation at Milan Fashion Week. More about Marc Newson forges landscape of colourful pixels for Fendi
Making clothes using living organisms is fundamentally changing how Iris van Herpen thinks about materials, the Dutch fashion designer tells Dezeen in this interview. More about Biodesign adds "a whole new range of possibilities" to fashion says Iris van Herpen
A pared-back concrete showroom with an arched glass-brick ceiling sits next to a historic salon filled with collectible design at fashion brand Acne Studios' latest headquarters, designed together with Stockholm-based Halleroed. More about Acne Studios unveils art-filled Paris headquarters in former laboratory
The Netherlands' Nieuwe Instituut has opened the fourth in its series of New Store pop-up shops, this time inviting consumers to participate in the production and recycling of a clothing item made from local wool. More about New Store 4.0 at Paris Design Week explores "farm-to-closet" fashion
Fashion brand Bottega Veneta has opened a pop-up shop at London department store Harrods with an interlocking shelving system that draws on modernist architecture. More about Bottega Veneta unveils Harrods pop-up store informed by modernist architecture
Plastic Lego bricks replace gemstones in these customisable rings by Berlin jewellery brand Studio GOGO, allowing wearers to change up the design as they see fit. More about Studio GOGO's Lego jewellery is "made to be played with"
Ravensbourne University graduate Rahat Rai has created a pair of slippers made using dust collected from a vacuum cleaner that was compressed to form a felt-like fabric. More about Slippers made from dust showcase "meaningful" use for household waste
Design brand PDM has created a pair of flip flops that look like the zigzag, concrete paving stones found across Thailand. More about PDM designs paving stone flip flops to "surprise and delight"
Studio Mumbai founder Bijoy Jain has collaborated with Louis Vuitton creative director Pharrell Williams to create a giant snakes and ladders board for the brand's Spring Summer 2026 menswear show in Paris. More about Giant snakes and ladders board designed as "perfect metaphor for life" at Louis Vuitton Pompidou show