So bags need a styling guide now? Apparently, yes, since most closets are still matching color to color and ignoring the one variable doing the real, load-bearing work—proportion. Japanese fashion has known this for decades, and it’s only gotten clearer with time. Get the shape right and the color takes care of itself...

They ask what’s in your bag, never what’s your bag. Fair, mostly. A tote’s gone viral once or twice. But the bag’s doing the harder job, deciding how far you can go and how fast you can move once you get there. JAX built five of them, one for every version of that answer...

The t-shirt has no origin story worth romanticizing. It started as military underwear, spent decades as workwear, and somewhere between Marlon Brando and the first Supreme drop, became the most culturally loaded garment in existence. Streetwear understood that before anyone else did. A blank canvas is not actually blank, because underneath (or spread throughout) it is the weight of the cotton, the width of the shoulder, and the graphic on the chest, each one a signal...

The people who pass the test of dressing for a season that dries out everything except you aren’t the ones with the most clothes stuffed into their closet. They’re the ones who stopped needing the mirror to tell them they got it right...

There is a generation entering the workforce that never learned how to dress for the office the old way—by virtue of watching, proximity, and absorbing the unspoken rules that circulate through shared physical space...