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Piers Hanmer on designing the sets for some of fashion’s most memorable images
A new book charts the era-defining work of British set designer Piers Hanmer, who was discovered by Annie Leibovitz and went on to work on some of fashion’s most inventive imagery, including spreads in Vogue, Vanity Fair and W Magazine
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‘A Single Man’ is now a ballet – we go behind the design
As ‘A Single Man’ is presented by The Royal Ballet and Factory International in London, here’s how its set designer brought protagonist George’s inner and outer worlds to life on stage
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Pierre Yovanovitch’s set and costumes bring a contemporary edge to Korea National Opera in Seoul
French interior architect Pierre Yovanovitch makes his second operatic design foray, for The Marriage of Figaro in Seoul
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‘As soon as I feel like somebody has worked me out, I want to switch it up’: set designer Shona Heath on staying authentic in a digital age
Shona Heath reflects on her 2024 Oscar win, being named a Royal Designer for Industry and the importance of dreaming
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Bringing the audience in: why artists are building their homes on stage
From Sabrina Carpenter to Rex Orange County, artists are reimagining their stage sets as extensions of their own homes. Lisa Wright meets set designers Stufish to find out why
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Brutalism in film: the beautiful house that forms the backdrop to The Room Next Door
The Room Next Door's production designer discusses mood-boarding and scene-setting for a moving film about friendship, fragility and the final curtain
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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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‘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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How to conquer the Atomic City: the story behind U2 at the new Las Vegas Sphere
U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere redefines the 21st-century rock concert. We spoke to the band and its team about the genesis of this expansive art and music experience that marks the opening of the high-tech venue
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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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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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Alexander McQueen and Smiljan Radic erect bubble on London skyline
‘I am interested in immersing myself in the environment in which we live and work, in London, and in the elements as we experience them each day,' says creative director Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen’s homecoming S/S 2022 womenswear show
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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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