Cut and run: Symonds Pearmain is London’s most dynamic new label

In celebration of the launch of Symonds Permain's e-commerce store, we look back to when we asked its founders designer and artist Anthony Symonds and stylist Max Pearmain, to collaborate on a Wallpaper* story. In the collaboration, fashion and art got all tied up...

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Symonds Permain

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Left, black and white rugby shirt, £715; striped rugby shirt, £510. Right, top, £570; trousers, £390, all by Symonds Pearmain. Ribbon bears artist Ed Atkins’ manifesto for the collection. Fashion: Symonds Permain

As originally featured in the Septmeber 2018 issue of Wallpaper* (W*234)

Symonds Permain


(Image credit: Symonds Permain)

Left, large bags, £835 each; small bags, £595 each. Gloves, £49, by Dents. Right, tops from left, £540; £440; £440, all by Symonds Permain

Symonds Permain

(Image credit: Symonds Permain)

Left, jodhpurs, price on request; socks, £45; top (under boxes), £540. Right, backless shirt, £495, all by Symonds Permain

Jack Moss
Fashion & Beauty Features Director

Jack Moss is the Fashion & Beauty Features Director at Wallpaper*, having joined the team in 2022 as Fashion Features Editor. Previously the digital features editor at AnOther and digital editor at 10 Magazine, he has also contributed to numerous international publications and featured 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.