Behind the scenes of the Erwin Wurm shoot

A headless model wears Façonnable
Wurm (left) puts the finishing touches to the ’Candy Girls’, decked in Paul Smith
Next up, the ’Flower Seller’
The ’Flower Seller’, whose wardrobe includes Paul Smith and Tom Ford
Architect Wolf Prix, of Coop Himmelb(l)au, with Erwin Wurm
Semotan sports the Burberry Prorsum studded leather jacket from the shoot
Shooting the ’Colour Blocker’
Wurm adjusts a Vivienne Westwood outfit on a seemingly acrobatic model
Another twisting Wurm form, this time encased in electric blue and yellow Wolford tights
Close up of the tights creation
Wallpaper’s Mathew Stevenson-Wright, Wurm and Semotan examine the results
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Jack Moss is the Fashion Features Editor at Wallpaper*, joining the team in 2022. Having previously been the digital features editor at AnOther and digital editor at 10 and 10 Men magazines, he has also contributed to titles including i-D, Dazed, 10 Magazine, Mr Porter’s The Journal and more, while also featuring in Dazed: 32 Years Confused: The Covers, published by Rizzoli. He is particularly interested in the moments when fashion intersects with other creative disciplines – notably art and design – as well as championing a new generation of international talent and reporting from international fashion weeks. Across his career, he has interviewed the fashion industry’s leading figures, including Rick Owens, Pieter Mulier, Jonathan Anderson, Grace Wales Bonner, Christian Lacroix, Kate Moss and Manolo Blahnik.
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