Latest articles by Orla Brennan
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Louise Trotter’s debut collection for Bottega Veneta was about a feeling of ‘liberation’
Taking place this afternoon in Milan, the much-anticipated debut saw the Sunderland-born designer dive into the house’s ‘candy box’ of craft for a bold collection which explored ideas of personal freedom
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In Milan, Prada seeks freedom as a ‘response to the overload of contemporary culture’
Shown in Milan this afternoon on a glossy orange runway, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’ latest display saw them continue a radical new design ethos ushered in back in June. It was, they say, about seeking lightness in times of overwhelming information
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The standout shows of London Fashion Week S/S 2026
London marked the second stop of fashion month, bringing the city’s usual energetic mix of established and emerging talent, culminating with a blockbuster Burberry show. Here are the Wallpaper* highlights
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Paolo Carzana on his emotional London show: ‘To me fashion is meaningful, powerful, and completely unfrivolous’
The shy Welsh designer took over the reading rooms of the British Library on Sunday evening, presenting a collection that called attention to Earth’s most endangered creatures and cemented his position as one of London’s most singular design talents
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A first look at Burberry’s S/S 2026 show set, which takes over Perks Field in Kensington Palace
The historic British house returns to the Hyde Park location for the first time in nearly a decade, staging a collection that celebrated the relationship between music and fashion in Britain
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Meet London’s next generation of fashion image-makers
A new exhibition celebrates the work of nine Central Saint Martins alumni who are rethinking the parameters of the fashion image
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Oscar Ouyang’s imaginative knitwear makes him a London Fashion Week name to watch
The Guangdong-born designer, who recently graduated from Central Saint Martins, will hold his first runway show at LFW tomorrow. As part of our Uprising column, Wallpaper* gets a preview of the collection
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Ashlyn, the quietly romantic New York label from a Yohji Yamamoto alumna
The focus of our latest Uprising column, Seoul-born Ashlyn Park worked for fashion greats before starting her own label in 2020. Showing her S/S 2026 collection at NYFW yesterday, she talks to Wallpaper* about marrying Japanese influences with the romance of Parisian savoir-faire
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What the Wallpaper* editors are looking forward to at fashion week, from blockbuster debuts to rising stars
The Wallpaper* style team pick their highlights from the upcoming fashion month, a definitive season as the industry’s major players start their latest chapters, beginning in New York tomorrow
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Piers Hanmer on designing the sets for some of fashion’s most memorable images
A new book charts the era-defining work of British set designer Piers Hanmer, who was discovered by Annie Leibovitz and went on to work on some of fashion’s most inventive imagery, including spreads in Vogue, Vanity Fair and W Magazine
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B.B. Wallace is a wardrobe of playful, tactile knitwear from fashion’s busiest designer, Meryll Rogge
Aiming to create pieces that can be passed through generations, Marni creative director and Andam prize-winning designer Meryll Rogge has teamed up with friend and knitwear expert Sarah Allsopp on the project, which is named after the designer’s sons
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Multidisciplinary artist Ronan Mckenzie on a new chapter for her fashion label Selasi: ‘It feels reborn’
As a pop-up in London’s Tender Books – featuring a curation of clothing, books and flowers – marks a new chapter for her 2020-founded label Selasi, multidisciplinary artist, designer and photographer Ronan Mckenzie talks creative rebirth and community
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New York label LII marries 1990s minimalism with a sense of play
A graduate of FIT, Zane Li’s sharp, architecturally-minded collections and bold use of colour have made him one of New York fashion’s most exciting prospects
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The collections you might have missed this S/S 2026 menswear season
Between the headliners in Paris, Milan and Florence, a few off-schedule displays are deserving of honourable mention – from Martine Rose’s sexually-charged portrait of Kensington Market to Sander Lak’s appointment-only namesake debut
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The standout shows of Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026: Hermès to Craig Green
Wallpaper* picks the very best of Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026, from Véronique Nichanian’s portrait of summer in the city for Hermès to Craig Green’s return to the Paris runway
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‘They gave me carte blanche to do what I want’: Paul Kooiker photographs the students of Gerrit Rietveld Academie for Acne Studios
Heralding the launch of a new permanent gallery from fashion label Acne Studios, the celebrated Dutch photographer’s new body of work praises the bravery of ‘people who choose to go to an art school at a time like this’
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How Pharrell Williams staged a giant game of Snakes and Ladders for his latest Louis Vuitton show
The colossal game board was designed by Indian architect Bijoy Jain, whose practice Studio Mumbai is famed for its 'cosmic' large-scale projects
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Milan Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026: live updates from the Wallpaper* team
From 20-23 June, Milan Fashion Week Men’s arrives in the Italian fashion capital. Follow along for a first look at the shows, presentations and other fashion happenings, as seen by the Wallpaper* editors
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The standout shows of Milan Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026: Prada to Dunhill
Wallpaper* picks the very best of Milan Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2026, from Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’ ‘light, fresh’ and ‘human’ display to Dunhill’s exploration of English dress codes
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Let there be light: a closer look at Prada’s stripped-back S/S 2026 show set
‘This is the first time the Fondazione is completely bare, with the light coming in,’ said Raf Simons backstage at Prada’s ‘light, fresh, colourful’ and ‘human’ S/S 2026 men’s show in Milan
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Inside the futuristic Japanese factory where Goldwin 0 cooks up its experimental technical-wear
The experimental arm of cult Japanese clothing label Goldwin, Goldwin 0 is pushing the boundaries of utility and technical-wear. Wallpaper* takes a trip to Japan’s Toyama prefecture to learn about its science fiction-like innovations
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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
