Few voices in fashion today carry the weight of Alexander Fury, whose work as a journalist, critic, and author respected for its precision and insight. Beyond his writing, Fury is also a passionate archivist, amassing a personal collection of over 3,000 pieces. Today, his archive is internationally recognized, with select works featured in prominent exhibitions, including at the Barbican, and in publications like Display Copy, where Lulu Tenney brings his archival gems to life on the streets of Paris.

Fashion Editor Michelle Cameron reflects on her maternal grandmother’s Cheongsams, delicate silk dresses that symbolize both personal memory and cultural heritage. These garments represent more than mere clothing; they are artifacts of a life lived. Determined to honor and adapt them, Cameron resized and modernized the garments, showing us that nothing is completely new or old and that fashion can be circular in both practice and spirit.

In the spring of 2024, Display Copy hosted its first-ever community clothing drive. United by a common thread of creativity and sustainability, donations from all five boroughs were gathered and entrusted to five talented sustainable designers. Each designer wove their vision into the fabric of these pre-loved pieces, transforming them into pieces that embody reinvention, craftsmanship, and the boundless potential of coming together for a common purpose.

The Display Copy marketplace collective officially launched in 2024, spotlighting a hand-selected group of expert vintage curators and upcycling designers across the USA. With a mission to offer a refined alternative to the overwhelming contemporary resale market, Display Copy transforms the experience of shopping vintage — eliminating the endless search and presenting a collection with a distinct point of view, All Together Now, in one place.

The main driver of our climate crisis, humans hold the key to its resolution. Like the mythological phoenix, whose self-immolation on a funeral pyre leads to rebirth, Lexi Boling rises from the ashes in upcycled garments that, as powerful tools of social commentary, challenge our conceptions of waste and reuse.

Fashion Magpie Saskia De Brauw swaggers and struts in head-to-toe vintage.

In head-to-toe vintage, model Paloma Elsesser puts our hearts on wings. The poet in her asks, “Who’s been getting busy? Devouring the literature, giving the grace, de-centering, uprooting and tending the trauma, sowing the joy? My avatar been getting fed, my shadow is getting sunlight, the heart sings less lonely songs.”