Alexander Wang has never met a sport motif that he didn't love. Over his label's soaring seven-year life, the New York-based designer has mined every corner of the locker room floor for dynamic design detail and body-conscious inspiration. Now that he's doing double duty as creative director at Balenciaga, however, his sports fused tendencies are finding loftier places to huddle. The scuba suit, for instance, was sliced into miniscule hip hugging dresses with net overlays, while sporty fetish mesh found its way onto the straps of Martingale-tuxedo jackets and technical netting punched through jersey floor grazing gowns. When Wang wasn't slashing his hems to vertiginous heights, he worked around a lean, man-style pant silhouette; for which both will require an equally perfect set of legs to pull off. While there was embellishment on sexy sleeveless scuba tops in the form of heavily beaded breast plates, the overall effect on Wang's spring runway was clean, perfectly tailored and glowingly precise. The clash of high class and off-duty sport was beautifully executed in this collection, offering an obvious reflection of what this American designer has gleaned from his time with the petites mains in Paris.
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Beloved British screenwriter Dennis Potter inspires an exhibition with a difference at Studio VoltaireHilary Lloyd's multi-faceted exhibition at Studio Voltaire considers Dennis Potter's life and work, from much-loved TV classics to power inequalities
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Insert here: London Design Festival gets intimate with insertable designAt London Design Festival, Heirloom Studio showcases 36 objects – some life-saving, some pleasure-giving, all made to go inside the body
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Postcard from Helsinki Design Week 2025Helsinki Design Week turns 20 this year. Celebrating two decades of design, core themes of this year revolve around happiness and optimism: here are design critic Hugo Macdonald's ten highlights
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The standout shows of New York Fashion Week S/S 2026 – as they happenHeralding the start of fashion month, the latest edition of NYFW takes place in the city this week. Here, in our rolling round-up, Wallpaper* picks the highlights
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Everything you need to know about the Met Gala 2025 and ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ exhibitionEverything Wallpaper* knows about the Met Gala 2025 – from the dress code to the exhibition theme and A-list co-chairs
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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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A decade of fashion show history in picturesBritish photographer Jason Lloyd Evans shares his favourite backstage images, from the runway shows of Dolce & Gabbana, Chanel, Armani, Proenza Schouler, Versace and more
