Acne creative director Jonny Johansson has been on such a roll in popping out relevant trends that the Swedish based brand has quickly become the go-to label for girls looking for a quick fashion fix. For spring, his never-fail tailoring got stiffened into hardened silk and then sliced into new shapes including strapless bell shaped dresses, cropped mini men's shorts and sleeveless jackets. A lot of women go to Acne for their reinvented basics but Johansson nonetheless proposes a lot of hard-core fashion on his runways. This season he promised to dress a girl for all moments of her life - from the bathtub to the office, but you couldn't help but notice that most of it was tinged with fresh sex appeal. Deep V-front jackets and dresses made everything sexier (as did the figure-hugging, phallic-printed slinky silk dresses and low long pencil skirts worn with glossy gold jewellery), while leather racked up an impressive showing despite the summer season. There were also skintight khaki leather cargo biker shorts, as well as a peacock green leather short-sleeved leisure suit. Get ready for a hot summer, girls.
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Joel Quayson’s winning work for Dior Beauty at Arles considers the theme ‘Face-to-Face’ – watch it hereQuayson, who has won the 2025 Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents at Arles, imbues his winning work with a raw intimacy
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Architect Erin Besler is reframing the American tradition of barn raisingAt Art Omi sculpture and architecture park, NY, Besler turns barn raising into an inclusive project that challenges conventional notions of architecture
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Boathouse Zaka is the radical renovation of an ageing structure into a light-filled workspaceOFIS Architects turns a traditional boathouse into a lakeside laboratory on one of Slovenia’s best-loved bodies of water
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Haute Couture Week A/W 2025: what to expectFive moments to look out for at Haute Couture Week A/W 2025 in Paris (starting Monday 7 July), from Glenn Martens’ debut for Maison Margiela to Demna’s Balenciaga swansong. Plus, ‘new beginnings’ from JW Anderson
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Donna Trope celebrates the power of the Polaroid in Paris‘Polaroids used to be my rejects, and now they are my holy grail,’ says the beauty photographer, as she shows rarely seen images in a Paris exhibition
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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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Walk this way: navigating S/S 2021's Paris Fashion WeekHow the City of Lights looked to the sartorial realities of our much changed lifestyles
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Louis Vuitton A/W 2020 Paris Fashion Week Women's
