In an era polluted by mass-produced fast fashion, New York-based label SMALL TALK sets its own pace, creating bespoke garments that are designed to last. More Or Less spoke with founder Nick Williams about alchemising traditional workwear into hyper-individual hand-drawn artworks

Committed, self-sufficient and defiant, Yorkshireman John Alexander Skelton is the kind of fashion designer who looks forward by revisiting – and rewriting – history. Here his timeless creations are modelled by volunteers on a vegetable growing co-op outside London.

Traditional wellness materials such as activated charcoal, clays, honey and hibiscus sit cheek by jowl with organic and eco-friendly cosmetics, as make-up artist CRYSTABEL RILEY explores the relationship between mindfulness, self-care, colour and beauty.

Much fashion now makes its greatest impact by being shared digitally. Blending age-old Taiwanese origami traditions with cutting-edge CGI manipulation, Ujin LiN’s creations exist in a virtual world, constrained only by his imagination.

The present we live in is marked by chaos. Intense warfare, elections, budget cuts – living is stressful. It’s easy to feel like the frayed end of a wire, so what can we do to help ourselves? The answer doesn’t lie in circling endlessly through the same three social-media apps, or throwing ourselves into work. It’s about finding another release, elsewhere. We asked our friends to tell us what they do to continue to keep sane; and writer and author Roisin LanIgan discovered the balm to maintain mental equilibrium was to simply do nothing. Here, she explains why, and how, it helps.

The Farago Projects Prize for emerging talents is a biannual initiative committed to nurturing the next generation of artists, which highlights and accelerates the recognition of young professionals in fashion. This year’s photography winner, JOHN SPYROU, was selected by a panel of judges including Frank Lebon, Georgia Pendlebury, Jaime Perlman, Luis Alberto Rodriguez, Florence Tétier and Marie Gomis-Trezise, and was offered access to the archives of Jean Paul Gaultier for his debut shoot

A record insurance payout made Californian mother DIANE JOHNSON wealthy, but over the years she has given almost everything away. It’s easy if you try

Instagram star TOBY BOORNE DAVIDSON is the Wombat Guy – dedicated to curing the burrowing marsupial of the outbreaks of mange that threaten its existence, and thereby helping preserve one of Australia’s most endearing species

A new cohort of young and emerging designers are giving fresh purpose to upcycled and reclaimed materials – and lending the human form a dramatic silhouette in the process

Making good use of the things that she finds – things that the everyday folks leave behind – Russian artist MAYA GOLYSHKINA repurposes the great unwanted mass of yesterday’s news for playful dressing-up.

Fine Cell Work employ prisoners and jail leavers to create exquisite needlework projects – with the aim that rehabilitation and personal transformation are all sewn up

Housed in an underground vault at his family home in Sardinia, the personal archive of fashion designer ANTONIO MARRAS is bountiful. It includes not only rare pieces from his Kenzo collections of the early aughts, but also antique garments from world travels, and rare Sardinian costumes curated by his wife, Patrizia. The pieces, collated over the last 30 years, continue to be a source of inspiration for his creative design process today. Here he gives More Or Less exclusive access to this precious collection.