The emerging Austrian designer Florentina Leitner has debuted her forthcoming AW21/22 collection with “The Royal Leitners” – a short fashion film directed by fellow Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp alumni, Athos Burez. The film follows the Leitner family through a series of surrealist vignettes, set over a pulsating gothic, arcade-tinged soundtrack. This baroque fever dream provides the perfect setting for Leitner to showcase her twisted, floral designs.

Bastion of artisanal Italian craftsmanship TOD’s Academy has collaborated with prestigious art school Central Saint Martins on a project designed to promote young talent in the fashion industry. Working closely with the course director of CSM’s MA fashion programme, Fabio Piras, TOD’s has challenged 35 CSM design students to put their own spin on the brand’s most iconic pieces. To aid the completion of the project, each student has been partnered up with one of a glittering roster of industry mentors. Their work can now be viewed digitally as part of London Fashion Week.

In a callback to her own coming of age as a child growing up watching music television in Sydney in the 70s and 80s, creative director Nicky Zimmermann’s Fall 21 collection is a nostalgic spectacle of vibrant colours, bold prints and musical pop art, with a modern twist. At a time when live music is so deeply missed, this collection carries with it a dose of optimism that one day, in the not too distant future, we will all dance again.

The UK’s foremost dance house Sadler’s Wells has collaborated with BBC Arts to produce Dancing Nation. This three-part celebration of diversity in dance features a variety of works new and old from the likes of Matthew Bourne, English National Ballet and Akram Khan, along with a series of interviews and BTS clips. The programme is available to UK viewers via BBC iPlayer and for international audiences from Sadler’s Wells’ official website.

From MoMA’s in-house Let’s Talk Art programme comes Slow Looking – a series of online workshops in which each session is dedicated to the exploration of a single artwork through a series of guided activities. In its next installation, Slow Looking will focus on Black Girl’s Window (1969), a seminal piece by African-American artist and master of assemblage, Betye Saar.

Following the launch of the PRADA Re-Nylon capsule collection, PRADA has partnered with UNESCO to develop an educational programme for secondary school students around the world. The project raises awareness around marine pollution, emphasising the importance of mindful consumption and highlighting the ways in which individual behaviours impact the health of our oceans. Students that joined the #SeaBeyond programme have been offered the chance to showcase their campaigns during a ceremony on 26 March 2021.

For AW21 sustainable fashion brand Anne Vest explores a colour palette inspired by the intersection of heather flowers and sandy dunes on the North Denmark moors. Presenting their collection in a bare and neutral space was key to shifting the focus towards contemplation and movement this season. The room acts as a stage for an inquisitive Anna de Rijk, who immerses herself in the nordic glow and embraces all aspects of contemplation and creativity.

For the family-run fashion house Holzweiler, whose AW21 show was due to take place this week at The Twist – a river-spanning gallery 80km northwest of Oslo – the Norwegian government’s announcement of a ban on all indoor events was a ‘twist’ they hadn’t planned for. Determined that the show must go on, the Holzweiler team revised their plans at a moment’s notice, relocating the entire production to their very own Holzweiler HQ. The digital show presents a breathtaking runway leading out over Norwegian waters. For Holzweiler, there really is no place like home.

By Malene Birger presents a collection centered around simplicity and minimalism for Fall 2021, calling upon their audience to “stop, look and embrace the bigger picture”. In-house designer Maja Dixdotter takes time away from outside noise and distraction, and focuses on reducing textures and tones to their simplest form. Exaggerated details and elongated silhouettes is the name of the game this season.