Latest articles by Orla Brennan
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Connor McKnight’s masterfully restrained menswear honours the quiet beauty of everyday Black life
‘The Black mundane’ is how American designer Connor McKnight – the latest focus of Wallpaper’s Uprising series – describes his aesthetic, which was born from family memories and honed at New York’s Parsons School of Design
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Five to watch from London’s Fashion in Film Festival, which digs deep into the natural world
Titled ‘Grounded: Fashion’s Entanglement with Nature’, Fashion in Film Festival 2025 takes place across London this month (until 1 June). Here, co-curators Dal Chodha and Marketa Uhlirova pick their must-sees from the expansive programme
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As Photo London turns 10, seven photographers tell us the story behind their portraits
Photo London celebrates its tenth anniversary from 14–18 May 2025 at Somerset House
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All-In is the Paris-based label making full-force fashion for main-character dressing
Part of our monthly Uprising series, Wallpaper* meets Benjamin Barron and Bror August Vestbø of All-In, the LVMH Prize-nominated label which bases its collections on a riotous cast of characters – real and imagined
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Leonard Baby's paintings reflect on his fundamentalist upbringing, a decade after he left the church
The American artist considers depression and the suppressed queerness of his childhood in a series of intensely personal paintings, on show at Half Gallery, New York
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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
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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
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Unpacking A/W 2025’s best runway sets, which captured a mood of longing and escape
As fashion month concludes in Paris, Wallpaper* explores the most captivating show sets of the A/W 2025 season, from Daniel Lee’s escape to the countryside at Burberry, to a romantic rose-strewn runway at Ferragamo
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Paris Fashion Week A/W 2025 highlights: Chanel to Saint Laurent
Wallpaper* selects the very best of Paris Fashion Week A/W 2025, from Chanel’s playful take on its house codes to an exercise in singularity at Saint Laurent
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How an 18th-century mansion became a Loewe wonderland for Paris Fashion Week
Drawing on the act of scrapbooking, Jonathan Anderson took over the Hôtel de Maisons with a self-reflective A/W 2025 presentation, shown alongside colourful artworks from the brand’s collection
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Inside Sarah Burton’s debut show for Givenchy: ‘To go forward, you have to go back to the beginning’
This morning in Paris, the former Alexander McQueen designer unveiled her anticipated debut as creative director of Givenchy – a musing on contemporary womanhood sparked by the discovery of lost Hubert de Givenchy pattern pieces
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Milan Fashion Week A/W 2025 highlights: Prada to Giorgio Armani
Wallpaper* picks the best of Milan Fashion Week, from Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’ portrait of ‘raw glamour’ to Giorgio Armani’s return to his roots
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Inside Patti Smith’s intimate performance for Bottega Veneta in Milan
Held during Milan Fashion Week, the evening of music, poetry, and film was a collaboration with Soundwalk Collective and featured a poem dedicated to architect Carlo Mollino
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Alberto Caliri’s new vision for Missoni: ‘It’s about getting back to an essence’
The Missoni mainstay has been part of the knitwear brand’s story since 1998. ‘The feeling was not one of radical change, but rather of return,’ he tells Wallpaper* of his first collection back in the creative director seat
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Fendi celebrates 100 years with an all-out runway show at its new Milan HQ
In the wake of Kim Jones’ departure, Silvia Venturini Fendi took the reins for a special co-ed A/W 2025 collection marking the house’s centenary, unveiling it as the first act of celebrations within Fendi’s expansive new headquarters in Milan
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Lucie and Luke Meier exit Jil Sander
Wife and husband duo Lucie and Luke Meier are stepping away from Jil Sander after eight years at the brand. The news came today following their A/W 2025 show, unveiled this afternoon during Milan Fashion Week
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Jake’s is the cult east London store that everyone in fashion is talking about
Led by Jake Burt, one half of London-based label Stefan Cooke, Jake’s has become a gathering spot for fashion insiders shopping his DIY curation of one-off and limited-edition pieces, in part inspired by Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas’ 1993 project ‘The Shop’
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Talia Byre’s contemporary heirlooms celebrate the ‘quiet power of dressing on one’s own terms’
Talia Lipkin-Connor – the designer behind London label Talia Byre – finds inspiration in the personal wardrobes of her friends and family. As part of our Uprising series, Wallpaper* meets the designer as she prepares to show her A/W 2025 collection at London Fashion Week
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‘There is nuance here’: Inside Prada Mode Abu Dhabi, hosted by Theaster Gates
Wallpaper* travels to Abu Dhabi for the latest edition of Prada Mode, the Italian house’s immersive arts-led programme which this year was guided by the American artist Theaster Gates in a site-specific space in the city’s MiZa district
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Samuel Ross begins a new chapter with Zara: ‘Clothes give you the power to transform’
Samuel Ross gives Wallpaper* an insight into his ‘multi-chapter design dialogue’ with Zara, which begins with a clothing collection
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These eight on-the-rise fashion designers are set to define 2025
Wallpaper* looks ahead to a new vanguard of designers set to shift the fashion needle in 2025, each chosen for the way they are not just shaping how to dress, but how to be
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Why Hodakova is the label that has everyone in fashion talking
Part 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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20 years of Dover Street Market’s transporting in-store installations, from giant elephants to soft toys
As Dover Street Market, Rei Kawakubo and Adrian Joffe’s radical London concept store, celebrates its 20th anniversary, we look back at ten of its most colourful installations, crafted alongside Simone Rocha, Jonathan Anderson, Martin Parr and more
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The story behind Ethan James Green's sultry, star-studded 2025 Pirelli Calendar: ‘Becoming a Pirelli photographer, you’re included in a club’
Ethan James Green is the latest photographer to shoot the Pirelli Calendar, drafting John Boyega, Hunter Schafer, Simone Ashley and more to bare all for his lens. Here, here tells Wallpaper* the story behind the sensual images
