Wonderland.
PALAIS GALLiERA: Alaïa EXHIBITION
Palais Galliera Musée de la Mode present the first retrospective of French couturier Azzedine Alaïa
PREVIEW: Pop! at the Fashion and Textile Museum
Wonderland takes an exclusive sneak peek behind the scenes of the Fashion and Textile Museum‘s upcoming Pop! exhibition. From 1950s rock-n-roll Americana to the kitsch glamour of the seventies, this thematic exhibition fuses fashion, art and culture for an insight into the development of the styles of the times. We talk Pop Art and counterculture […]
MARIA AND THE MIRRORS – Gemini: Enjoy my Life
London trio Maria & the Mirrors are emerging from the ocean with their new EP Gemini: Enjoy My Life, released on Exotic Pylon Records. Their follow-up to 2011’s Travel Sex, Gemini is a joyously pounding riot of tribal chanting and otherworldly electronica, all set in a Gothic ice cave. Wonderland talked to the band about […]
Frontrunner: THE ChiBeCa PROJECT
Frontrunner is a New York based collective – they put out an arts journal, and, in a neatly tucked away gallery space in “ChiBeCa”, Manhatten, regular exhibitions and projects. Their newest event, which opens from 6pm tonight, details the area in all its culturally rich and diverse glory. Its streets – which nestle between Chinatown […]
Aino Vainio – I KNOW WHY NO
Aino Vainio is one Finland’s most promising young designers – her newest knitwear collection I Know Why No is a hand-coloured and delicate spring ensemble, inspired, she claims, by films Waterworld, Mad Max, Lost Boys and Andy Warhol’s artwork for the seminal Velvet Underground & Nico LP. Vainio was keen to pick through her techniques […]
Kevin Amato – F*ck the Golden Years
Street-stomping reportage photographer Kevin Amato will from tonight exhibit his newest collection, F*ck the Golden Years. The display, hosted at Casa de Costa’s pre-war arthouse in lower Manhattan, studies The Bronx at its most feral and blithe – a scathing realism simmers beneath scenes of play and sun-kissed whimsicality. We caught up with Amato as […]
Dans La Vie – CLASH BEAUTY
Dans La Vie, spearheaded by Wasada University-graduate Rira Sugawara, is a particularly colour-conscious designing vehicle aimed at sucking in the work of contemporary music, fashion and art’s boldest statement makers – Andy Warhol, Madonna, McQueen – and spitting them back in collections no epilespy sufferer would go near. Sugawara showcased her AW12 collection ‘Clash Beauty’ […]
Paul Laffoley
Welcome to the mangled and beautiful mind of Paul Laffoley: artist, amputee, cult hero and time-machine inventor… Rupert Howe investigates.