Victoria Beckham is on our It-list. Not only was the former pop princess a recent headlining judge in Wallpaper's Design Awards issue, but she continues to be on a winning streak with her fashion career. Crucial to her formula for success is an uncanny knack for creating fashion forward clothes that are covetable for the advanced dresser and yet also ingestible to the broader masses. Though dripping in new details, these are clothes that are simple in their shape and intrinsically wearable. Long buttonless coats or lean raw edged wrap dresses, for example, were held together with just a simple gold chain, where the flash of warm metal heated up a normally very simple look. Beckham's big news this season was in construction, but she did it subtly, cutting in a curtain of pleats in the back of a wool coat, or onto the front of a short skirt. The pleating was outstanding as a new decorative device especially at night when a glistening gunmetal floor-length evening skirt was paired with a cosy black funnel neck sweater. A clear example of a perfect winter ensemble designed by a woman, with a woman in mind.
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Year in review: top 10 gadgets and tech of 2024, as chosen by technology editor Jonathan BellThe very best of 2024’s gadget and technology launches and stories, from emerging AI to retro gaming, laser projectors and musician’s side projects
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Why Hodakova is the label that has everyone in fashion talkingPart of a new monthly series, ‘Uprising’ – highlighting fashion’s new vanguard of designers – Orla Brennan meets LVMH Prize winner Ellen Hodakova Larsson, whose intriguing Stockholm-based label will be 2025’s one to watch
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Dhammada Collective brings participatory design and cultural preservation to the fore in IndiaDhammada Collective, in India's Bhopal, combines participatory design with cultural preservation to foster sustainable growth
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Sarah Moon brings painterly fashion and dark fantasy to Fotografiska New YorkOctogenarian French photographer and filmmaker Sarah Moon shows 30 years of work at Fotografiska New York – spanning fashion and fantasy, mystery and the macabre, it’s dark, painterly and compelling
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‘In America: A Lexicon of American Fashion' is coming to The MetThe first of a two-part, year-long extravaganza, ‘In America: A Lexicon of American Fashion’ is organised into 12 sections that seek to define the emotional qualities in American style
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Saint Laurent celebrates 40 years of Memphis GroupMemphis Group's milestone birthday is celebrated with a series of colourful furniture installations across the French maison's concept boutiques
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‘A place for the eye to pause’: Ulla Johnson unveils New York HQThe Manhattan-born fashion designer opens a warmly-hued style sanctuary, created in collaboration with architect Rafael de Cárdenas
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Es Devlin-designed time-travelling exhibition opens at The Met’s Costume Institute‘Our aim is to communicate the phenomenon of time as it is expressed through the female form,’ says Devlin of the exhibition she has designed alongside curator Andrew Bolton
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Optimism and pragmatism align at London Fashion Week S/S 2021In a socially-distanced show season different to any other, LFW's designers offered images of hope, escapism and utilitarianism
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