Mood board: ‘Here's my chance to dance my way, Out of my constrictions’: just two uplifting lines from Funkadelic’s One Nation Under a Groove, so perninent in today’s fractured times. They bore particularly resonance with Sacai’s Chitose Abe for S/S 2020, who used the record’s cover as a pertinent t-shirt slogan. Constriction has never affected the designer, who is famed for creating hybrid garments from fractures of different silhouettes. For spring, her ‘harmonious’ designs included dresses spliced from ribbed knits and shirts, boucle suits with subversive pompom and transparent panels and gauzy pleated dresses overlaid with sporty paper bag skirts. The look was oversized and exaggerated, with rope belts and sculptural carabiners pulling silhouettes into place. Abe even create dresses which resembled chiffon lavalliere blouses trousers and a trenchcoat.
Best in show: A cartographical map print also evoked Abe’s harmonious vision. These were emblazoned in grayscale or in bold colour on transparent shirts, fluid dresses and flowing trousers. Finishing touches: Chunky chains have featured heavily on the spring catwalks, from Bottagea Veneta to Agnona, and here they were layered as thick chokers of varying thicknesses. Elsewhere, globe shape bags were carried or hung as pendants from long necklaces, like world-shape minaudieres.
Finishing touches: Chunky chains have featured heavily on the spring catwalks, from Bottagea Veneta to Agnona, and here they were layered as thick chokers of varying thicknesses. Elsewhere, globe shape bags were carried or hung as pendants from long necklaces, like world-shape minaudieres.
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Japan in Milan! See the highlights of Japanese design at Milan Design Week 2025At Milan Design Week 2025 Japanese craftsmanship was a front runner with an array of projects in the spotlight. Here are some of our highlights
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Tour the best contemporary tea houses around the worldCelebrate the world’s most unique tea houses, from Melbourne to Stockholm, with a new book by Wallpaper’s Léa Teuscher
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‘Humour is foundational’: artist Ella Kruglyanskaya on painting as a ‘highly questionable’ pursuitElla Kruglyanskaya’s exhibition, ‘Shadows’ at Thomas Dane Gallery, is the first in a series of three this year, with openings in Basel and New York to follow
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Palace unites with Rapha to celebrate inaugural Tour de France FemmesMarking the first time women will compete in the historic cycling race since the late 1980s, this new collaboration sees Palace Skateboards and Rapha create uniforms for both on and off the bike – including an ‘outlandish’ pair of Crocs
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Paris Fashion Week A/W 2022: Chanel to Miu MiuIn this extended report, Wallpaper* updates you live from Paris Fashion Week A/W 2022 shows, with rolling coverage as runway events unfold
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Scene-stealing runway sets from S/S 2022 womenswear showsFrom giant roulette wheels to Olympic diving boards and multi-city synchronized extravaganzas – our pick of the best fashion show sets from S/S 2022 womenswear
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