There is a relationship between art and fashion that has been described so many times and in so many ways that the description itself has become a kind of reflex, something reached for automatically whenever a designer name-drops a painter or a museum stages a collaboration with a luxury house or a runway show is held in a gallery space with catalog essays written by curators who are very careful about how much of their credibility they are lending and to whom.

In an exclusive conversation with Shweta for Style Essentials, Adriana Santanocito, the woman who co-founded Ohoskin in Catania and watched it travel from a local citrus farm to a Ganni runway, a Sonus Faber speaker cabinet, a motorsport track and the Quirinale Palace, talks about what the future of luxury materials actually looks like when someone is brave enough to build it.

From the stirrups of Persian cavalry to the mirrored floors of Versailles, from Roger Vivier's steel rod to the runways of contemporary menswear — the high heel has never really been about the shoe. It has always, without exception, been about power, and who gets to wear it.

Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna’s Spring Summer Couture 2026 collection, titled Abyssal , develops its visual and structural language through references to deep-sea environments. The collection continues the designers’ long-standing interest in architectural construction, material layering, and controlled ornamentation within couture. The garments are built around structured silhouettes that prioritise form before surface detail. Tailoring, internal reinforcement, and pattern c