Caroline Tomlinson spent 15 years as a designer and art director before making the shift she'd been circling for years — full-time fashion illustration. Central Saint Martins graduate, collaborator with Rankin, Dior and Louboutin, and a committed believer in happy accidents. This is a conversation about lines, marks, and what it means to let the ink lead.

Leila Antakly interviews Wilhelmina international model and scholar Samira Mahboub on culture change and cross-cultural communications.

Photo Pedro Koechlin

A handwritten letter from a loved one. Political graffiti scrawled on a prison wall. A page ripped from an old newspaper. Inscriptions from a 1937 coin. These are the fragments of Palestinian life that Nafsika Skourti has embedded into fabric. Not as metaphor. As documentation. Volume II: Traces of Being is the second chapter in her series حُبِّي فِلَسطِين, My Love, Palestine, and it is among the most important things happening in fashion right now.

Paula Mendoza was a journalist before she was a goldsmith. One course changed everything: Jewelry as Sculpture, at Washington's Corcoran School of the Arts. A pilgrimage through Peru's ancient filigree workshops did the rest. Today her pieces are worn by Beyonce, Zendaya, and Sarah Jessica Parker, her artisans in Bogota have worked with her for over a decade, and her wedding in 2026 had a dress code of all black, a lineup of five DJs from Burning Man, and a theme called Rave Royale. She is, as Leila says, something special.