Fashion & Beauty
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Acqua di Parma says a sun-kissed ‘Buongiorno’ to Milan Design Week 2025
At its Milan store, Acqua di Parma is co-distillating exuberant ceramics and olfactory pleasure in an installation that honours its latest fragrance
By Simon Mills Published
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Valextra’s collaboration with Zaven is a ‘travelling sculpture’ with its own suitcase
Revealed at Milan Design Week 2025, Valextra’s new project with Venice-based creative agency Zaven is inspired by Bruno Munari’s ‘Travel Sculptures’ and unexpected discoveries in the Italian leather brand’s archive
By Jack Moss Published
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Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli on curating Gucci Bamboo Encounters at Fuorisalone: ‘We didn’t want to produce commodities’
Celebrating one of Gucci’s foundational materials, ‘Bamboo Encounters’ sees Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli of 2050+ bring together seven international artists and designers to explore bamboo through a series of ‘research projects’ at Milan’s Chiostri di San Simpliciano
By Jack Moss Published
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Sunnei’s shape-shifting concept store and café takes up residence in the brand’s Milan HQ
‘It allows visitors to shop just steps away from the people who designed the pieces,’ say Sunnei founders Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo of the store, which features a Tommaso Vergano and Anastasia Posca-curated café – perfect for a Milan Design Week pitstop
By Laura May Todd Published
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This Kvadrat tote bag brings together two design luminaries, Raf Simons and Peter Saville
The Kvadrat/Raf Simons tote arrives in Peter Saville’s ‘Technicolour Fleck’ material, and is a symbolic gesture of the pair’s enduring personal relationship and long-running collaboration with the Danish textile house
By Jack Moss Published
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‘Fashion & Interiors: A Gendered Affair’ at MoMu unpacks the hierarchy of the home
The Antwerp exhibition interrogates the relationship between fashion, interiors and gender through the concept of ‘gesamtkunstwerk’, a complete work of art. Curator Romy Cockx gives Wallpaper* a tour
By Dal Chodha Published
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Inside Camperlab’s Harry Nuriev-designed Paris store, a dramatic exercise in contrast
The Crosby Studios founder tells Wallpaper* the story behind his new store design for Mallorcan shoe brand Camperlab, which centres on an interplay between ‘crushed concrete’ and gleaming industrial design
By Jack Moss Published
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Drafting nine international artists, Gucci’s ‘90 x 90’ project transforms its silk scarf into a creative canvas
Part of Gucci’s ‘The Art of Silk’ initiative, the project sees nine artists riff on the Italian fashion house’s most memorable motifs, from lush depictions of flora and fauna to its signature horsebit
By Jack Moss Published
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‘Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style’ at Design Museum interrogates the loaded history of swimwear
Curator Amber Butchart speaks to Wallpaper* about the Design Museum’s latest exhibition, which explores the cultural impact of swimwear – from Pamela Anderson’s bombshell ‘Baywatch’ one-piece to those made for sports, leisure or fashion statement
By Zoe Whitfield Published
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This perfume bottle archive was nearly lost. Now, it offers a rare whiff of fragrance history
Fifty blueprints from a forgotten French crystal manufacturer will be for sale as part of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair
By Anna Fixsen Published
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In Thom Browne’s newest store, prep meets Palm Beach
The American fashion designer has brought his affinity for midcentury design to a '50s-era shopping centre
By Anna Fixsen Published
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Johanna Parv’s ‘engineered formalwear’ is made for the woman on the move
Part of our monthly series ‘Uprising’, Wallpaper* meets Johanna Parv, the London-based designer whose stealthily beautiful clothes are designed to take women from boardroom to dinner by way of the bike lane
By Orla Brennan Published
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Carla Sozzani on a life in art and fashion: ‘I wanted to change how magazines were made’
On the release of a new illustrated biography, ‘Carla Sozzani, Art, Life, Fashion’, the polymathic fashion editor, gallerist and founder of Milan’s 10 Corso Como sits down with Wallpaper* to recount a boundary-breaking, fiercely independent career
By Jean Grogan Published
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Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez are the new creative directors of Loewe
The much-rumoured appointment was confirmed this morning, following Jonathan Anderson’s departure from Loewe earlier this month
By Jack Moss Published
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Inside Loro Piana’s extraordinary first exhibition in Shanghai, celebrating a century of craft
Scarlett Conlon travels to Shanghai to explore ‘If You Know, You Know: Loro Piana’s Quest for Excellence’, a showstopping new exhibition from the Italian fashion house curated by Judith Clark, spanning clothing, heirloom fabric, art and local craft
By Scarlett Conlon Published
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These fringed Prada slippers capture a lived-in elegance
Part of Prada’s S/S 2025 menswear collection, these fringed slip-on mules reflect a wider renaissance of the slipper – suggesting the ultimate luxury is to wear your inside attire outdoors
By Jack Moss Published
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Loewe’s latest perfume smells like the start of spring, with notes of blossoming violet
Loewe’s Casa De Campo perfume, the latest in its Un Paseo Por Madrid collection, pays tribute to the city of Madrid in bloom
By Mary Cleary Published
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How Augustinus Bader’s first-ever sunscreen saves precious time in the morning
Augustinus Bader’s first sunscreen is finally here, with a nourishing SPF 50 formula that performs multiple skincare steps all at once
By Hannah Tindle Published
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Brunello Cucinelli’s daughters on crafting the house’s ‘Duo’ bag, conceived through sisterly synergy
Camilla and Carolina Cucinelli, daughters of Brunello Cucinelli, tell Wallpaper* the story behind ‘BC Duo’, the first bag they’ve designed for the Italian house
By Jack Moss Published
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Stone Island and New Balance’s latest sneaker collaboration is inspired by an archival fabric
The ‘Stone Island x New Balance 998 Made In USA’ sneaker, which combines Stone Island’s material innovations with a 1993 New Balance silhouette, is now available to buy
By Jack Moss Published
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Moncler stages spectacular mountain-top runway show at Europe’s highest airport
Taking place in snowy Courchevel this weekend, the high-altitude runway show presented Moncler’s latest Grenoble collection at the ski resort’s exclusive Altiport airport
By Jack Moss Published
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Jonathan Anderson departs Loewe after 11 years
Spanish house Loewe has confirmed this morning that Jonathan Anderson is set to leave his position as creative director after over a decade. Here, Wallpaper* unpacks a transformative tenure
By Jack Moss Published
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Kiko Kostadinov designers Laura and Deanna Fanning’s guide to Melbourne
Laura and Deanna Fanning, the Australia-born, London-based twins behind Kiko Kostadinov’s womenswear line, share their hometown haunts and heroes with Wallpaper*
By Laura and Deanna Fanning Published
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The Wallpaper* A/W 2025 trend report: raw glamour, waistlines and an animal instinct
As Paris Fashion Week concludes, Wallpaper* fashion features editor Jack Moss unpacks five trends which defined the A/W 2025 season, from ‘raw glamour’ at Prada, sculpted waistlines at Givenchy, to looks made to cocoon and protect
By Jack Moss Published
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Demna is heading to Gucci after a decade at Balenciaga
In a day of fashion moves, it has been announced that Georgian designer Demna is set to exit Balenciaga to become creative director of Gucci, replacing Sabato De Sarno
By Orla Brennan Published
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Wearing Hermès’ new lipstick feels like the gentle caress of a silk scarf
Hermès Beauty’s new Rouge Brillant Silky lipstick has a diaphanous formula inspired by scarves from the house’s silk métier, Gregoris Pyrpylis tells Wallpaper*
By Hannah Tindle Published
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Donatella Versace is stepping down as creative director, to be replaced with Miu Miu’s Dario Vitale
In news announced today, the indomitable designer will step away from her role as creative director of Versace to become chief brand ambassador, replaced with former Miu Miu design director Dario Vitale
By Jack Moss Published