BEAUTY: Clothing--Yaku

This rather new brand, Yaku by Yaku Stapleton (who graduated from the Central Saint Martins MA program in 2023 and is currently a designer-in-residence at the Paul Smith Foundation), showed a fascinating SS '26 collection at London Fashion Week (only his third time there!) based on RPG video games and Afrofuturism. He created a mythical group of people called the Télavani who exist within a magical, dystopian, past/future world. I appreciate the worn-dirty dye techniques, the layers, and the general feel of the Bedouin-esque silhouettes and cuts.

https://yaku.uk/