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Split screen: artist Katrien De Blauwer’s final cut of A/W 2018

Ever since I was a child, there was a voice inside me that told me I was not like the rest,’ says Katrien De Blauwer. She’s speaking from her studio in Antwerp, a hidden room in a small apartment...

Loewe at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2019

Staging: Loewe’s mood for summer is lightness. The Place Saint-Sulpice headquarters was littered in hand-made rainbow pom-poms and candy-striped vinyl ribbon. It served as a playfully naive backdrop to the S/S 2019 collection which draws inspiration from the colours of...

Loewe Craft Prize 2018 winner announced as Jennifer Lee

Jennifer Lee has been crowned this year’s winner of the Loewe Craft Prize 2018. The Scottish ceramicist and RCA alumna was selected from a diverse range of 30 global finalists originating from 18 countries. Works on show include a Japanese...

London Craft Week 2018: the Wallpaper* guide to the unmissable events

Now heading into its fourth year, London Craft Week (9-12 May) sees studios, showrooms and creative spaces open up across the capital in celebration of modern-day making and heritage artisans. For 2018, there is an expanded international reach within the...

Google, Byredo and Loewe activate Selfridges’ abandoned hotel in an immersive tech takeover

Selfridges has embraced its radical alter-ego in The Flipside, a side-stepping new exhibition aiming to define contemporary – and future – concepts of ‘radical luxury’. Housed a few steps from the department store’s storied, bright-white Accessories Hall, which was overhauled...

Fashion brands leave their sartorial mark on Salone del Mobile 2018

There was a time when fashion brands would host cocktail parties at Salone del Mobile — create a window display, perhaps — and call it a day, but those days are long gone. ‘It feels like every fashion brand has finally woken...

An exclusive look at Loewe’s celebration of craftsmanship at Salone del Mobile 2018

Blankets have the power to protect and envelop, and for Loewe’s latest exhibition at Salone del Mobile 2018, the Madrid-based label is showcasing an exhibition dedicated to the intricate and innovative craftsmanship behind these swathing designs. Craft is a concept...

Seal of approval: A/W 2018’s most outstanding fashion week invitations

Scene-stealing runway sets from the A/W 2018 womenswear shows

Loewe A/W 2018

Scene setting: Two seasons ago creative director Jonathan Anderson erected an unsettling show set, one which guests entered in pitch darkness and that cranked up from chilly to sweltering temperatures. For A/W 2018, Anderson devised a more welcoming domestic scene...

We play fast and loose with form and transparency for S/S 2018

Photography: Brigitte Niedermair. Fashion: Isabelle Kountoure

30 finalists of the Loewe Craft Prize revealed

‘The level is crazy this year,’ remarks Jonathan Anderson in a recent chat with Wallpaper*. He was referring to the outstanding quality in this year’s applicants of the second iteration of the Loewe Craft Prize that the British creative...