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...
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)
Left, large bags, £835 each; small bags, £595 each. Gloves, £49, by Dents. Right, tops from left, £540; £440; £440, all by Symonds Permain
Left, jodhpurs, price on request; socks, £45; top (under boxes), £540. Right, backless shirt, £495, all by Symonds Permain
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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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