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London Fashion Week – CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS
The eagerly anticipated Central St Martins MA show brought the first day of London Fashion Week to a close, announcing Luke Brooks and Craig Green as the joint winners of L’Oreal’s Professional Creative Award. After defeating the queue, which rivalled that of a high street-designer collaboration’s first morning, you instantly became aware of the buzzing […]
London Fashion Week – PPQ
If ever there was a hazy line between a catwalk show and a performance, it was at PPQ at London’s Somerset House. There was a stylish sort of carnage finding the way to your seat amidst all the trendy, young celebs on the front row and photographers swarming to take a photo of someone dressed […]
CHRONICLE – Michael B. Jordan
Remember starry-eyed miniature drug trafficker Wallace in HBO’s gangster saga The Wire? He grew up. Just after his 25th birthday this month, we spoke to Michael B. Jordan about his newest film, Josh Trank’s superhero romp Chronicle and found he’s as much an outgoing, sprightly young talent as he is a bedroom-bound comic book fanatic.
Florian Jayet – AW12/13
French designer Florian Jayet acquired a love of the textile industry from a young age, spending a lot of time with his grandmother who worked as a tailor. Though originally his passion was science, he felt that there was a creative somewhere within him and landed a prized internship with the late Alexander McQueen, whom […]
NEW NOISE: Bonjay
Bonjay, Grenadian slang for the terribly English expression “Good God!”, is not only a suggestive reaction to the band’s refreshing style; but a nod to its ability to seamlessly fuse all the sounds that excite them, from Timbaland to Talking Heads. After side-stepping a career as a commercial R&B starlet, vocalist Alanna Stuart hooked up […]
EMERGING… Ellen Rogers
Ellen Rogers is a Norfolk-born fashion photographer who now resides in the Staffordshire countryside, having fallen out of love with London. She’s worked with many big names – from Karley Sciortino to Warren Ellis and the BFI – all of which are in awe her dark, dreamy experimental imagery. Ahead of the release of her […]
Aminaka Wilmont AW12/13
Scandinavia’s Maki Aminaka and Marcus Wilmont, better known as foremost designing engine Aminaka Wilmont, are poised to showcase their fall collection for the first time at London Fashion Week‘s BFC Showspace on Tuesday. Set to continue to explore their interest in shape, silhouette and emasculation, the duo talked thoughtfully to Wonderland about it.
TRENDS… The Life Aquatic
While trends resurface once over every few seasons: “the new minimalism”, “fifties revival” and so on and so forth, SS12 introduced a glimmer of something unseen – under the sea creatures on the catwalk. Designers dipped their toes in iridescent, futuristic fabrics, taking this season’s pretty pastels in a more esoteric direction; encapsulated in today’s […]
Tom Cullen for WONDERLAND
Tom Cullen pays homage to classic 1950s Hollywood dandies Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Fred Astaire and the like in this brand new clip, accompanying Way Perry’s shoot for the February/March edition. Fashion Editor: Way Perry Photographer: Rhys Frampton
SCREEN TESTS
In our newest video, Screen Tests, Grace Cobb styles 60s ‘It Girl’-esque gals, donned in lush Chanel.
TRUST head up Toronto’s art rock insurgency
The demon lovechild of an indie pop group and a goth rock band worthy of 80s stardom, Trust is no longer exclusively something to be broken by cheating on your significant other. An electronic duo from Toronto, Trust has been on the iTunes of music dorks for years. Their EP, Candywalls, received its fair share […]
Wonderkind: Ulyana Sergeenko
Ulyana Sergeenko is a Russian designer, photographer and serial socialite, who launched her first collection last year. Living in Moscow, she is a cult figure at fashion weeks, appearing in her own, unique designs. She talks to Wonderland about street style, Soviet cartoons and the unusual Russian-and-1950s influenced silhouettes of her self-made empire…
Natalie Anne Moran – AW12
It’s a sunny Saturday morning and we’re sat in a Turkish cafe in Dalston with fashion designer, Natalie Anne Moran, who is donning pastel pink hair and a jacket to match. She chats eccentricity, Kreayshawn and her soon-to-be-unveiled autumn/winter collection…
EMERGING… Sarah Maple
Wonderland gets the feeling concept artist Sarah Maple’s striking work needn’t be over-analysed. It is, she would concede, a brash, punky knee-jerk reaction to life in multicultural England – unfortunately, detractors are quick to tar it with the ‘shocking for shocking’s sake’ brush. We caught up with Maple, who’s latest exhibition It’s a Girl! runs […]
NEW NOISE: We The Committee
We The Committee haven’t been on the block for long, but their cinematic take on indie rock is soon to melt even the darkest of hearts. After such a positive reaction to their eponymous debut EP in December 2010, the band have been working hard on a follow-up. Wonderland caught up with the north London […]
Kumiko Watari – ANCIENT WONDERS
Kumiko Watari‘s newest collection, Ancient Wonders, is a collision of Egypt-inspired pattern motifs, disproportionate fabric cuts and surrealist drawings. Wonderland caught up with the Osaka-born Saint Martins graduate to talk fine art, aliens and Might-T, her label-name.
NEW NOISE: Roses Gabor
Roses Gabor is a name you may think you’ve never heard before, when in fact her statement sound is probably nestled amidst your record collection right now. The talented singer has already worked with some of contemporary music’s heavyweights, such SBTRKT (she’s the leading lady on one of his notable bangers, “Pharaohs”), Shy FX and […]
Ruby Aldridge: Studio Dance
In a Wonderland TV exclusive, to coincide with the release of our February/March 2012 REVOLT/RECALL/RENEW issue, Ruby Aldridge whips out some moves for photographer Bjarne Jonasson.
The top five most obscure John Williams scores
To celebrate the 80th birthday of legendary film composer John Williams today, we’ve made a list of his five most overlooked scores – pop your onesy Darth Vader outfit on and dig through our choices. (1) Heidi (1967) (2) Tom Sawyer (1973) (3) The Rare Breed (1966) (4) Cinderella Liberty (1973) (5) SpaceCamp (1986)
Daniel Radcliffe – The Woman in Black
80 million dollar-tagged manchild Daniel Radcliffe stars this month in The Woman in Black, his first screen venture since the globally doted-upon wizard saga, Harry Potter. Wonderland made every effort to watch the film with an open mind – especially as posthumously the Potter buzz already feels like more of a media-peddled sugar rush than […]
Jesus Lopez – EPHEMERAL NATURE
With his debut short, the kinky fashion film “Ephemeral Nature”, Spanish born photographer and stylist Jesús López hit a home run, winning Best Film at Diane Pernet’s A Shaded View Of Fashion Film in Barcelona last month. Set to the music of “Forever More” by Shaun J. Wright (lead vocalist for Hercules & Love Affair), […]
Freak City: HI-FA$HION BA$$
Since 2008, Los Angeles collective Freak City have stood at the forefront of the city’s neon-lit alternative arts and music scene. From its current location in a hollowed-out ex department store on Hollywood Boulevard on Friday, the troupe hosted HI-FA$HION BA$$, an evening of live music, film and fashion from the likes of flamboyant musical […]
Interviewing Martha Marcy May Marlene’s director Sean Durkin
Elizabeth “sister-of-the-twins” Olsen plays the titular character in intense drama Martha Marcy May Marlene that is released in cinemas today.
Pia Myrvold – FLOW
New York’s non-profit NO. Gallery will from tonight house a tunnel structure comprised of 77 LED screens and other abstract multimedia compositions for Pia Myrvold’s dazzling and immersive exhibition, FLOW. Exploring 3D media in many of its luminous forms, FLOW offers an unforgiving, retina-burning interdisciplinary experience. Myrvold took Wonderland through her complex new project.
OPENING… The Photocopy Club
A pretty self explanatory title, The Photocopy Club is the brainchild of curator and self-published photographer Matt Martin. This innovative new monthly photography exhibition features photocopied images sent by postal submission from all over the globe. Dually based in Brighton and London, the exhibition is designed as a way to take photography away from the […]
WONDERKIND: Maria Piana
Greek born, London-based designer Maria Piana explores themes of power and femininity in her statement, armour-like jewellery, and has already been discovered by fashion designer Erevos Aether who enlisted her skills on his first two collections. With exhibitions in Paris and Munich lined up for the forthcoming season, Wonderland talks to the designer about influences, […]
EMERGING… P. Nicolas Ledoux
Paris’s Galerie Magda Danysz is hosting a solo show by French conceptual artist P. Nicolas Ledoux. Through collaborations with other artists and reinventions of established art, Ledoux self-reflexively criticizes and examines the art world as it currently stands. The multifaceted print artist offers Wonderland a glimpse of the artistic process behind his latest exhibit.