Once a year, the jewellery world descends on Sin City to show its wares.

At Balenciaga’s SS24 show, swathed in layers of black, out stepped Diane Pernet. The American fashion critic, curator and fashion’s “first” blogger, as she’s often described, since launching her platform A Shaded View on Fashion in 2005, was one of a number of well-known fashion figures to grace the platformed

To mark our celebration of the most vivid dreamers in fashion, it would only be right to feature some of the industry’s most exciting young talents, who are unafraid to think up the most fanciful things.

Willy Chavarria is whipping around New York in a cab when we speak, heading from a business meeting in downtown Manhattan to his studio in Brooklyn.

It’s Monday morning in the Heathrow lounge and an iPhone attached to a black-clad arm comes around the corner like a telescopic fashion spy cam. Sophia Neophitou has arrived.