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Saint Laurent A/W 2019 Paris Fashion Week Women’s

Scene setting: For A/W 2019, Saint Laurent erected a huge silver box wrapped in mirror panelling, directly opposite the Eiffel Tower in Paris’ historic Place du Trocadero. As guests climbed the staircase into the space, the Eiffel Tower was reflected...

Easy lover: we’re at ease with the relaxed mood of modern tailoring

Autumn’s enlightening answers to the classic white shirt

The white shirt: a wardrobe staple so versatile it transcends trends and seasons. And a wondrous piece  – whether you favour a style more crisp and starched, or fluid and silken. On the runways for autumn, designers proposed a plethora of options for...

Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent’s collection of art, books and antiques goes under the hammer

Pierre Bergé, who was both the business co-founder and former life partner of Yves Saint Laurent and who died last year, was a prolific collector of design, art and books. Now a huge selection of works, spanning from antiquities to...

Saint Laurent S/S 2019 Paris Fashion Week Women’s

Scene setting: Designers are vying to out-do each other on the performance front this Paris Fashion Week. We’ve already seen a Sharon Eyal-choreographed dance performance at Dior, and a theatrical show at Gucci held in the cult Le Palace Theatre, complete with...

Blurred lines: there are no boundaries for girls who are boys who like boys to be girls

Italian artist (and longtime Wallpaper* collaborator) Brigitte Niedermair’s latest exhibition ‘Eccehomo’, showcases photographic works of Europe’s oldest known natural human mummy Ötzi (or the ‘Ice Man’), in Castel Tirolo in Italy. In celebration of the show’s opening, here we present...

Saint Laurent stages twinkling S/S 2019 menswear show on New York’s Liberty Island

In the upper echelons of conservative, haute couture-wearing circles in Paris in the early Seventies, New York City was viewed as a mecca of glamour, disco and decadence. Nightclubs, like Max’s Kansas City on Park Avenue South, pulsed to vibrant...

Diller Scofidio + Renfro on the divine design of the MET’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ exhibition

Given its track record for staging fashion spectaculars, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute does not shy away from controversy by any means. Its latest effort, ‘Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’, which examines the influence of Roman...

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

Saint Laurent A/W 2018

Scene setting: On a sub-zero night in Paris, guests piled into a cavernous showspace next to the Fontaine du Trocadéro, a vast hangar illuminated on the inside and outside by row upon row of spotlights (providing warmth for freezing fashion editors)...

Best in shows: our standouts of the spring/summer 2018 collections

Photography: Melaine + Ramon. Fashion: Isabelle Kountoure and Jérôme André. Writer: Laura Hawkins

Shape shifting: making moves with photographer Roos Quakernaat

Roos Quakernaat caught our eye at the latest Hyères Festival of Fashion and Photography. So we did the patronly thing and tasked her with artfully tangling new Dutch design and this season’s key looks, as she explains here in her...