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Jonathan Lyndon Chase on creating a ‘complicated and messy’ domestic space for Acne Studios’ latest show
A musing on ‘emotions and the body, and how they affect the space around you’: American artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase tells Mahoro Seward the story behind their Acne Studios runway set, which will backdrop the brand’s S/S 2025 show in Paris later today
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‘A gentleness in the hard truths’: behind the scenes at Slave Play
Slave Play, London is on at the Noël Coward theatre – Amah-Rose Abrams reports on a ‘hilarious, tender, confronting’ performance and its masterful mirrored set
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Hooked on Broadway, David Rockwell's standout stage sets and intimate design ethos
David Rockwell has created a host of standout stage sets for Broadway shows, with London’s V&A recently acquiring four for its theatre and performance collections
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‘Air Play Moon Safari’ is an audio-visual, retro-futuristic experience
With the ‘Air Play Moon Safari’ tour in full swing across Europe, the USA and Mexico for the rest of 2024, we explore the design of the French band's White Box stage
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‘How we make our audience go wow’: Take That on tour
Behind the scenes of the Take That tour set design. Wallpaper* speaks to the band and the architects about the flames, fountains, paper storms and twin ten-tonne kinetic staircases that we saw live at London's O2
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How Vanya’s set design went from stage to NT Live screen
As Vanya, starring Andrew Scott, hits the big screen with NT Live, set designer Rosanna Vize describes retaining the intimacy of London’s Duke of York's show
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OMA/AMO and Prada celebrate 25 years of extraordinary runway sets
Rem Koolhaas unpacks OMA/AMO’s unique creative collaboration with Prada, which has led to some of contemporary fashion’s most striking runway sets
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BAFTA 2024 stage design pays tribute to the history of film animation
The 2024 BAFTA Film Awards celebrated the best of the past year’s films, with an elegant stage by Yellow Studio, which pays tribute to the history of film animation
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Artist Sophia Al-Maria on her fairytale video installation for Miu Miu’s Paris show
Qatari-American artist Sophia Al-Maria tells Wallpaper* the story behind her new video work, which backdropped Miu Miu’s S/S 2024 collection shown in Paris
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Loyle Carner’s Reading Festival 2023 stage presents spatial storytelling at its finest
We talk to Loyle Carner and The Unlimited Dreams Company (UDC) about the musical artist’s stage set design for Reading Festival 2023
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Jil Sander’s A/W 2020 show is set inside a refurbished thermo-electric station
Industrially inclined for autumn, the Meiers chose a recently refurbished former thermo-electric station, filled with mismatched vintage chairs
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Sail away: Rana Begum creates fishing net installation for Roksanda
Roksanda Ilinčić and Rana Begum have collaborated on a kaleidoscopic netted runway installation for the designer’s A/W 2020 show at London Fashion Week
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Alessandro Michele goes behind the scenes of Gucci’s A/W 2020 show
Creative director Alessandro Michele invited the audience backstage for the Gucci A/W 2020 show in Milan, to explore the construction of the runway
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Soundtracking fashion with Benji B
The London-based DJ and producer on creating shape-shifting sounds for Louis Vuitton, Cerruti 1881 Paris, Bethany Williams and Celine
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How fashion is adapting to a digitised virtual future
The show must go on! As New York Fashion Week 's innovative digital platform RUNWAY360 launches, we take a look at the luxury industry's virtual progressions
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Halston: standout locations from the Netflix limited series
As Netflix's Halston arrives on the small screen – starring Ewan McGregor in the lead role as famed American fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick – we turn our attention to the standout locations of the limited series, from glass-fronted New York skyscrapers to resplendent French royal residencies
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David Korins on his storytelling stage for the Oscars 2019
The blockbusting set star creates 15 concepts for the 91st annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles with the theme of inclusivity
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From The Simpsons to the European Parliament: best Balenciaga show sets
‘Ay, caramba!' In celebration of The Simpsons-inspired Balenciaga S/S 2022 runway show, which saw the residents of Springfield descend onto the catwalks of Paris Fashion Week, we present the best recent fashion show sets from the Parisian maison
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Scene-stealing runway sets from S/S 2022 womenswear shows
From 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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David Rockwell’s 2021 Oscars set design celebrates old Hollywood
Staged within Los Angeles' Art Deco Union Station, the David Rockwell-designed Oscars 2021 set nods to old Hollywood and the communal arts
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Felipe Oliveira Baptista erects modular runway for A/W 2020 Kenzo debut
‘It was designed as a modular nomadic object,’ says creative director Felipe Oliveira Baptista of his debut A/W 2020 runway set design for Kenzo
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Gucci takes travelators to heaven in its S/S 2020 show set
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Star cast produces Merce Cunningham’s centenary ballet
Night of 100 solos is an intimate yet far-reaching performance event, with set design by the late Richard Hamilton, and music in part by Christian Marclay
