Briar Prestidge works across branding, avatar worlds and emerging technology, where self-presentation is constantly built and rebuilt in real time. In this conversation, she reflects on burnout, digital selves and what it means when identity stops staying still.
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Fast food wrappers, thumbprints, distorted faces and digital residue become emotional evidence in DAMN TRUE’s unsettling visual world. The Russian artist speaks to Couture Troopers about grief, scrolling culture, intentional ugliness and disrupting the polished smoothness of the internet.
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In an exclusive interview with Couture Troopers, Bhumi founder Emma van Engelen reflects on mythology, the female form and the role of 3D printing in shaping her latest collection, Divine Garden.
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Viktoria Modesta speaks to Couture Troopers about Metabodies.AI, exploring embodiment through Prototype, fashion, disability and emerging technology.
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A decade after her first Couture Troopers interview, artist and curator Aunia Kahn reflects on reinvention and a life-altering illness that led her back to painting.
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Exclusive interview with Dóra Abodi on her latest collection, The Transylvanian Chronicles, where folklore, mythology, and sculptural fashion collide in a narrative world of artefacts and ritual dress.
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In an exclusive interview, Célianne Nhat Lam shares how Vietnam’s streets inspired her sculptural IAM collection.
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Exclusive Interview: Inside Ines Alpha’s experimental digital makeup and visionary Prada Beauty projects.
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From kitchen mats to the catwalk: how Clara Chu is rewriting the luxury rulebook for AW26.
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Hafiiz Karim pivots from viral heartland parodies to haunting blue surrealism in an exclusive interview.
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Breaking creative thresholds one at a time, there seems to be no boundaries that American artist AUNIA KAHN can’t overcome as a multi-disciplinary creative entrepreneur.
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Gildo Medina flips perfection on its head, exposing the emotional cost of beauty in his striking Beauty Knows No Pain series.
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