Natalie Portman at the Cannes Film Festival 2025 wearing a re-make of an original Dior Couture gown, with glittering scales. It's not very often that any designer really wants to deliver on mermaid cravings at all, often viewed as something left behind in childhood or for kidults. However, professional mermaids get clicked by women and people of all ages and instead of having an expensive tail made, it's possible to live the dream of becoming a mermaid through fashion as opposed to costume. Saint Laurent is not the only designer that is providing mermaid tailoring, though certainly has the most aggressive 'tails' when it comes to making an statement. Other designers are delivering on the shimmer and the shine that is reserved for the supposedly slimy tail or sunlight reflecting off scales in a coral reef.

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The Front Row of Dior's Fall/Winter 2024 collection included Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlize Theron, Carissa Moore, Alexanra Daddario, Karlie Kloss, Michelle Williams and more. Gathering at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the collection further progressed the discussions of feminism as well as exploring the ties between two cities; Paris and New York. Check Out the Front Row Below

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Cady Heron's bag designer has faced criticism throughout his career for his collaborations with Louis Vuitton. Japanese Contemporary Artist, Takashi Murakami, is known in Japan for 'stealing culture to sell it to the western world.' Takashi has laughed 'I guess, I don't know,' explaining that his world-famous cherry motifs and cherry blossoms along with his other work is colourful and kawaii. It's cuteness is characteristic of Japanese Contemporary Art. Though it's been around 20 years since his artwork was first seen at Louis Vuitton, many will still recall the original collection. The 2025 re-edition collection has colours that are brighter than ever due to new advances in technology. Takashi Murakami wants for people to understand that his art is very conceptual and abstract. He confesses "I spend a long time watching animation because I am a geek." House ambassador Zendaya has modelled the Takashi Murakami re-edition collection.

In a world of their own making, Finnish brand Marimekko’s designs are instantly recognized by people everywhere for their overcrowded flower prints and more. Like a cartoon, the abstract prints come to life when being worn, moving to the beat of the wearer's walk, and artistically wrap petals or entire abstract artworks around the body. The position of a print is very important to Marimekko who has worked with numerous artists and designers worldwide to make perfect Marimekko pieces. Despite always being fun, they are always appropriate; whether meeting the in-laws or partying with bestfriends, Marimekko always has the perfect design to look humble, feel comfortable and stand out from the crowd. Celebrating their 60th anniversary in business just last year, Marimekko, with one retail store in Westfield Sydney, started printing abstract art onto fabric from their factory in Helsinki (then called ‘Printex,’) in the 1950’s It wasn’t long before they began making clothes from their vibrant prints and by the year 1960, Marimekko designs were regularly featured in magazines like Elle, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and Women's Wear Daily….Historically, for their original prints and silhouettes, mixed with a signature level of appropriateness, Jackie Kennedy purchased seven of Marimekko’s timeless dresses, all at once. Wearing one of them beside her husband JFK, then campaigning to become President on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Today, and for 2025, Marimekko celebrates that “only blessing us with a mere moment, the idea of a flower is eternal.” This motto being both for their Autumn/Winter and Spring/Summer collections. On the design front, new styles of the Mariminni (Marimekkos timeless mini dress,) have been added as well as new Maridenim styles - Denim shorts, denim skirts and denim jackets. Sustainability is always an major focus of the design of Marimekko clothing, bags, accessories and homewares. Most notably featuring Swedish, London-Based artist Petra Bonner prints for this season, which are bound to be pieces you can add to your wardrobe, and pull out year after year. The colour palette for Spring/Summer features watered-down aqua blues, rosy red, cool spearmints, tigerlily oranges and delicate lilacs. Though, of course the designs are often timeless- this season sustainability has gone beyond design with a record number of products being made using organized, recycled and innovative materials too. For example, the red color in the shirts is a result of using repurposed jersey which cuts waste by going with a natural fabric tone as opposed to using dye...Jersey shirts have been made with 40% recycled fibers and others are set in a dye that is made from certified recycled wood waste Check out the Marimekko Spring/Summer Lookbook below

Taking a walk through fashion itself, a ripple of influence can be seen from the Artist Cerith Wyn Evans, who has permanent artwork on show at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Like waves made by a large piece of silk in the wind, Cerith is just as quiet and meaningful, leaving the majority of his artworks untitled for viewers to make sense of installed realities for themselves. Taking a step back in time, beyond the work of his permanent exhibition at the Fondation, just to last year, Cerith was in collaboration with Louis Vuitton and installed a walk-through reality in a Tokyo Gallery that was titled ‘Espace.’ Installing light, sound and objects to create a Louis Vuitton think-space where viewers could wander and wonder... Rewind even further back to the year 2011, and artist Cerith Wyn Evans himself was the model in an Marc Jacobs ad-campaign. Welsh, and born in 1958, the aging artist was featured partially naked. Showing his bare-derrier and going bare-legged in a pair of Marc Jacobs boots. At times, beyond art, he and his artworks have both bravely become fashion. He spent the 2010’s and 2020’s across France, Japan, Wales, Aspen, the US, Italy, Mexico, England, Austria, Norway, Scotland to name a few. He also participated in overseas exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (2017, 2010 and 2003,) Skultpr Projeckte Munster (2017) Aichi Triennale (2010,) Yokohama Triennale (2008,) and Istanbul Biennale (2005.) Today, for his first major solo-exhibition in the Asia-Pacific region, he is being featured as the major winter exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. The exhibition In addition to other artworks that have been seen and visited across the world, Evans has created several site-specific works just for the Australian exhibition, that are about engaging with the light, soundscapes and natural environment of Warrane (Sydney Harbour.) There is the Neon Forms (After Noh) series, large-scale three-dimensional ‘drawings in space,’ which invisibly dangle from the ceiling. Using neon light, this work in particular was inspired by the choreography of traditional Japanese Noh Theatre, this series traces the movements of performers as gestures suspended in space. Energetic and fluid, the works engage and transform the viewer's perception. Double-Height exhibition galleries at the museum are being used to showcase the monumental light sculptures of the exhibition. Two works include the Sydney Drift (2025) and F-O-U-N-T-A-I-N (2020,) Then, there is the award-winning sculpture composition for 27 flutes, in which 27 glass pipes ‘inhale’ and breathe sound across the gallery.  Welcome to Cerith Wyn Evans As an artist, Cerith creates surroundings composed of light, sound and communication. To give you an idea; He once created an art installation that consisted of an World War II searchlight sending 7 mile beam of light into the night sky over the Giudecca (an Italian island,) flashing intermittently in morse code, an ancient Welsh text. In this exhibitions case, the sounds of bustling Sydney Harbour and sunlight from outside the Australian Museum of Contemporary Art are considered a part of the specially created completed artworks too. Whether you adore Louis Vuitton or believe that fashion is a waste of time and space; In Light of the Visible by Cerith Wyn Evans is the perfect exhibition to make sense of reality and come up with possibilities. There is much to be said, but it is better to go and see.