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Premiere: Brooke Candy – “Nymph”

Wonderland Staff — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 15:55:31 +0000

Rapper Brooke Candy releases a whimsical video for her sex-positive anthem “Nymph”.

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BROOKE CANDY – “LIVING OUT LOUD”

Wonderland Staff — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 09:35:54 +0000

Singer and rapper Brooke Candy releases new single “Living Out Loud” featuring Sia.

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Watch: Brooke Candy – “Changes”

Wonderland Staff — Fri, 13 May 2016 17:26:32 +0000

Brooke Candy is back with a typically radical new music video.

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Rollacoaster Cover Reveal – Brooke Candy

Wonderland Staff — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:34:56 +0000

Stripper-turned-rapper-turned-Rollacoaster-cover girl, meet the sweetest of them all, Brooke Candy.

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Brooke Candy – ‘Happy Days’

Wonderland Staff — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 10:37:26 +0000

Hear about Brooke Candy before everyone else does.

If Brooke Candy isn’t on your radar yet, she will be soon. She’s the Cali-based rapper-cum-diva who’s collaborated with Grimes and Diplo and has a distinctive bad-girl persona that shifts gear with each track and video she puts out. Until now, we’ve mainly seen her in rapper form with songs like ‘Rubber Band Stacks‘ – which sees Brooke in a range of guises but mainly just doing her thing in a launderette – or in semi-performance artist mode: check out the video for ‘A Study in Duality‘, a mainly instrumental piece that exhibits her true chameleon-like powers of transmutation. In fact, she’s spoken about her shape-shifting proccess in the past, remarking:

“I’ve always been into exploring different variations of myself and style. In recent past I’ve found myself undergoing endless transformations through emotional states of being and it is reflected through changing vocal styles and aesthetic approaches…I am exploring sounds that are bit more polished and digestible.”

With her newest video ‘Happy Days’, Brooke has thrown out something in a more traditional pop vein (must be that “polished” streak shining through). Don’t get us wrong, her fierce persona is still out in full force, but this one really sticks in the mind like a true banger: watch this space and get ready for her debut album later this year.

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Print Ain’t Dead: Giveaway

Wonderland Staff — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:45:40 +0000

To celebrate our unsurprising inclusion on Buzzfeed’s best print list, we’re giving away some of our most coveted mags and posters!

As if we needed to be told that print isn’t dead, Buzfeed went ahead and made a list of the 35 best print publications around. Well, you won’t be surprised to hear that Wonderland was firmly on that list with the description, “the UK’s hippest pop-culture magazine”: we’ll take that. To celebrate, we thought it was a fitting time to give away some of our most sought-after past covers and posters. How will you get your hands on these? Easy – become a subscriber to our weekly newsletter and enter the chance to win, those who do will find out next Friday so time’s a-ticking!

This week we’re offering up some of our favourites from 2014/15, including:

‘Why You So Obsessed with Me? Issue’ – Summer 2014

That unforgettable cover of a seductive Mariah Carey dressed in Agent Provocateur shot by Terry Richardson. Plus other desirables Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brooke Candy, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Iggy Azalea, Petra Collins, Gregg Araki, Jacob Artist, Dominique Young Unique and Ella Henderson – bet you ran out of breath saying that didn’t you?

‘The Mean Girls Issue’ – Sept/ Oct 2014

Reowww – what a line-up of feisty females. Your ‘regulation hottie’ and face of this issue is tiara-wearing Barbara Palvin accompanied by the ultimate clique of playground princesses: Chelsea’s Lucy Watson, Muccia’s new muse Stacy Martin and film-star sensation Saoirse Ronan. We also caught up with the mean girl herself Lindsay Lohan as she took to the West End stage in David Mamet’s ‘Speed-The-Plow.’ All in celebration of 10 years since Tina Fey created Mean Girls – do you feel old now?

‘The Teen Dream Issue’ – Nov/ Dec 2014

Our two cover stars, both available, are dreamy teen icons and interviewees Taylor Swift and Willow Smith, with stunning photo shoots by Thomas Whiteside. Taylor’s normal bubble gum ‘pop’ appearance is stripped back revealing some of that country-girl fresh-faced charm that we all fell for and simultaneously welcomes her as a modern pop star with sass. Willow Smith also shakes off her past ‘whipping hair’ days and stands as a young and well-informed Feminist who has grown up very quickly.

‘The Spring Fashion Issue’ – February/March 2015

Hailey Baldwin shows us what she’s made of; gracefully holding a range of power tools whilst her long blonde hair flows around her – and all whilst wearing six-inch heals. As well our cover girl, this issue hooks up with girl band of the moment Little Mix, the gorgeous actor Douglas Booth and talks to Kristen Stewart about reinventing herself as the queen of indie film accompanied by a poignant black and white shoot by Hedi Slimane.

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Things we learnt this week

Wonderland Staff — Fri, 15 May 2015 17:43:02 +0000

Rihanna slays in Dior’s new campaign, Sony are doing a re-make of The Craft and Britney don’t dance like she used to – here’s our round up of the news this week.

“By the power of three times three, make them see, make them see.”

THANKS TO SONY, WE CAN EXPECT A REMAKE OF “THE CRAFT”

The Hollywood Reporter broke the news this week that Andrew Fleming’s 1996 supernatural screenplay “The Craft” is set for a re-make thanks to Sony. Starring Fairuza Balk, Rachel True, Neve Campbell, and Robin Tunney the film follows the four teen witches who cause havoc with their powers. Having loaned grungy-goth fashion and attitude tips to teens worldwide, it’s going to be a tough to beat but we’re already dying to know who’s on the casting list.

DIOR BETTER HAVE RIHANNA’S MONEY

Marking the first black woman as the face of the house in 69 years, Rihanna features in the fourth chapter of Dior’s Secret Garden saga. The teaser for Steven Klein’s film, shot in the Chateau and gardens of Versailles, sees Rihanna climb the dimly lit staircase in killer heels and a red dress, arm tucked behind her back, Dior clutch in hand to the sound of piano keys that later erupt into a second of pop that cuts short leaving us in suspense. Rihanna slays again.

BRIT DON’T DANCE LIKE SHE USED TO

Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea have teamed up for their new Little Mix-penned track “Pretty Girls”. With candy pink lips, over-crimped hair and lashings of leopard print, the blondes belt out the girl-power lyrics: “All around the world, pretty girls, jump the line to the front, do what we like, get what we want”. Meanwhile animated planets fly across the screen – an obvious nod to Julien Temple’s 1988 film Earth Girls Are Easy – and Azalea plays the alien treading unknown territory. Whilst my inner 13-year old is desperate to love it (I’m not for one minute going to deny being a die hard Britney fan circa 2000), the sad reality is that I don’t.

Just like two wrongs don’t make a right, two famed blondes don’t necessarily make a good record, or video for that matter. As Noisey’s Kat George puts it: “Pretty Girls” makes Britney “look like Jenna Maroney’s mom in 30 Rock: a cloying stage mom desperate to share her young daughter’s spotlight in a tacky money grab”. My 13-year-old self also remembers Brit being able to bust a move, “Pretty Girls” confirms she really can’t.

MILEY WANTS YOU TO LICK HER PUSSY & HER CRACK

In other news, Miley Cyrus covered Kiha’s “My Neck, My Back” on stage at the Adult Swim Upfronts party this week. Taking a break from her Happie Hippy Foundation, she was seen gyrating on stage clad in a thong and glitter, with a pair of oversized butterfly wings for good measure. I guess she’s just being Miley…

PARIS HILTON IS BACK

The pink party princess is back with a new hit and whilst it’s not to my taste, I’m happy to admit it’s not that bad. Titled “High Off My Love”, the new track that features Birdman, founder of Cash Money Records, must mean that Paris has been taking some time away from her hectic DJ’ing schedule. Shame. Well, someone had to provide us with a guilty pleasure this week.

CARA’S GOING INTERGALACTIC

Thanks to Luc Besson’s Twitter announcement, we now know that he’ll be working on a film with Cara Delevingne, titled Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets, in which she’ll play 11th Century peasant girl Laureline alongside Dane Dehaan. Set to sweep Cara off her feet and into space in a mission to protect planet earth, your inner sci-fi geek is set to feast on this. In anticipation of the release, we partook in some sci-fi style predictions.

Words: Brooke McCord

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LFW: Ashley Williams AW15

Wonderland Staff — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 15:30:04 +0000

Pepto-Bismal pink sheepskin, dominatrix PVC and kitsch slogan patches, take a look at Ashley Williams AW15.

Take a Trip to Mars

From a glittery key-hole, underneath a neon sign that read “Ashley’s”, the likes of Georgia May Jagger, Alice Dellal and Immy Waterhouse stomped down the catwalk in Ashley Williams’ 90s-reference heavy AW15 collection, to the sounds of L7 “Pretend We’re Dead” and other riot-grrl anthems. Think 80s metal band T’s, knee-exposing trousers, cartoon faces stitched on jumpers – that translated to chintzy prints on drain-pipe trousers dresses, skirts and tote bags – neon pink cropped jumpers complete with kitsch patches, crocheted Pikachu yellow and black wrist-warmers and star studded patent shoes – the product of Williams second collaboration with Red or Dead. Paying homage to the likes of Kathleen Hanna and Chloe Sevigny, this collection is for all the sexy, street-smart girls out there, the ones who aren’t afraid to stick two fingers up at society.

Pepto-Bismal Pink

The OMG moment came in the shape of a Pepto-Bismal pink sheepskin coat, complete with an oversized sheepskin bucket hat in a slick of the same sweet hue. Why the pink? “It’s sickly! It’s just a good colour isn’t it?,” says Williams backstage. The same candy-floss sheepskin formed collars and cuffs on vampish PVC outerwear. “The PVC is just to give it a bit of an edge,” says Williams. “To make sure it’s not too bubblegum.”

Slogan Speak

Prints that read: “Last Chance to Escape”, dresses that proclaim: “Improve your image be seen with me” and printed bone lettering that spells out “Plastic Surgery” – Williams’ AW15 colelction was packed with bratty slogans from start to finish. “I was just looking at different graphic styles and t-shirt styles through the ages, like 90s skateboard style graphics and 80s metal t-shirt graphics. So just those styles and the way they used to type, the way they used to print and the imagery they used,” she explains. “I also looked at old book covers by R. L. Stine, he has really good book covers that look like they could be t-shirt graphics. So I was just looking at them and I just really like the words ‘Plastic Surgery’!”

Words: Brooke McCord.

Photography: Thurstan Redding.

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Reject Everything: Edward Meadham, Arvida Bystrom & Viv Albertine

Wonderland Staff — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:34:28 +0000

We bring together Edward Meadham, Arvida Bystrom and The Slits front woman Viv Albertine together in a film by Sharna Osborne.

Taken from the Spring Fashion Issue of Wonderland Magazine:

“Reject Everything” was the fierce statement proclaimed at London fashion designer duo Meadham Kirchhoff’s street-cast SS15 show. Arriving at the event, you would have seen the set designed within an almost post-apocalyptic space in which bloodied tampons swung from the branches of trees. It played out like the pages of a fanzine; paying tribute to some of fashion’s most lauded designers, with Dame Westwood and Malcolm McLaren top of the list. Presenting each guest with a personal booklet, Edward Meadham and Benjamin Kirchhoff gave onlookers before finding herself inspired an insight into their world. Listing pro-lifers, women against feminism, fathers and celebrity culture in their handwritten “hate” list; and mothers, fags, dykes, queens, The Queen and Viv Albertine of The Slits under “love”.

Had you been a fly on the wall at the Meadham Kirchhoff studio last summer, you would have heard the rebellious sound of The Slits playing loud, whilst images of front-woman Viv Albertine plastered the walls. For those of you unfamiliar, Albertine’s position in female-punk history is landmark. One of the first ever female punk icons, she re-defined the cultural expectations of how women should dress, behave, and most importantly, what they could achieve. This collection was devoted to her success in refusing to be anything other than herself.

It soon became clear that the title of the show, Reject Everything, was so much more than a throw-away political comment. It was punk – not just in fashion, but more so in attitude. “Viv was my favourite Slit, I always love a blonde,” explains Meadham. “Her style has always had an enormous influence on my work.”

Though there’s one outfit in particular that’s most significant – the one donned by Albertine in the opening scene of The Punk Rock Movie, directed by The Slit’s former band manager, Don Letts. “Viv wears this pink little girl dress, then standing up from the bed she pulls on these shiny pink knickers whilst a long ribbon dangles from her hair,” enthuses Meadham. “This collection was entirely inspired and driven by everything Viv was, and still is.” And by that he means, life post- Slits too. Reading her biography – having expected to lose interest after the chapter documenting the band’s break up – Meadham found himself enthralled by Albertine’s account of overcoming depression, fear, an oppressive husband, suburban domesticity and a near death experience, and hungry for life, with a new sense of optimism.

In the weeks leading up to Reject Everything, Meadham knew what he had to do. “I nervously invited Viv to the show,” he explains. “Nervous, because I knew Viv hates nostalgia and has no interest in what’s commonly been labelled as ‘punk’ in the 35 years since she lived it.”

Of course, Albertine accepted Meadham’s invitation. He was terrified by what she might think, but after the show she introduced herself, expressed her appreciation for the diverse model casting and announced that she loved the girl in the opening look. Dressed in pink plastic marigolds and a graffiti-printed leotard (violet candy-floss hair worn high, eyebrows crayoned pink, eyes underscored in red) – that girl was model, photographer and artist, Arvida Byström. Meadham’s world was complete.

Having first been introduced to Byström by Tavi Gevinson in 2011 (when working on a mini-zine called Vomit Pink) – Meadham has since been mesmerised. “I immediately became obsessed with two of Arvida’s self-portraits – one with unshaven armpits (which at the time, I hadn’t seen in about a decade), pink hair tucked inside a choker around her neck; and one with a vacant, perhaps stoned, expression, pink moustache drawn above her lip,” says Meadham. “I don’t know how to express why or how I identified with these two simple self-portraits, but they were so pure, so sexual, so confrontational.”

Resisting the desire to invite Byström to walk in one of his shows until the perfect moment, Meadham maintained an online relationship with his muse. But when Reject Everything was born, Byström had to be cast. “Arvida perfectly embodies the spirit that I wanted from the collection, the freedom and irreverence I feel from The Slits and from Viv herself. In a world saturated with images of emaciated girls, sexually fantasised through the male gaze, Arvida’s self-portraits represent autonomy and self-sexual-expression.” Portraying the opposite of what is accepted and expected of femininity, Byström is setting a new standard for beauty, one that welcomes imperfections with open arms.

Four months after the show, following the news that Meadham Kirchhoff would not be showing at London Fashion Week for AW15, Albertine agreed to model the Reject Everything collection exclusively for Wonderland, along with pieces from her own archive. Meadham knew exactly who he wanted to shoot it. “I don’t like men and I definitely don’t like male photographers. I don’t trust them,” he explains. “When I was looking for someone to shoot, it immediately became obvious to me that this was going to be my first project with Arvida. Not just because she opened and closed the show, but because I wanted the images to have a sense of honesty, spontaneity and life.”

That’s exactly what Albertine brought to the shoot. Life. Arriving on set in a casual checked shirt, faded black jeans and ankle boots (with barely a scrap of makeup on), it was hard to believe she celebrated her 60th birthday the day before, more so when she danced around in front of the camera, guitar in hand, effortlessly at ease. “Don’t make me look boring,” she laughs. With an array of eclectic 70s archive pieces stacked on the rail before her, it would have been nearly impossible to. During the shoot, Meadham lusted over a pair of Albertine’s red killer heels purchased at legendary King’s Road boutique SEX, two pairs of her Seditionaries boots, a square cowboy t-shirt (that he later wears for a portrait), and, most impressively of all, her pre-Slits band mate Sid Vicious’ leather jacket. The pair talked at length about Sid and Nancy, and Meadham’s love for 70s boys – Billy Idol, Vicious and Paul Simonon. They certainly don’t make them like that anymore.

Suspicious of modern day girl-punk and almost oblivious of the Riot Grrrl movement, if one thing pisses Albertine off, it’s how far into music history you have to delve to find The Slits. “Back then we were abused and attacked everywhere we went, we didn’t look like anyone else on the streets, we didn’t act like other girls,” explains the singer. “Our audiences had never seen girls on stage playing electric instruments before. We felt very achieved this with the album Cut, but it took about 30 years for people to realise we broke new ground. Including our record company, Island Records, who now admit it’s one of their top fifty albums of all time,” she laughs.

Just like her music, Albertine’s dress sense was considered “out- there”. Aged 15 and penniless, Albertine longed for Ossie Clark dresses, Bus Stop Boutique mini skirts, granny glasses and bags from Biba. “Every Saturday afternoon I would go to Kings Road or Kensington High Street and just look at the people going in and out of the shops,” she recalls. “The boutiques were like beautiful grottos, full of real dress-up stuff.” Unafraid to shock, Albertine’s outfits were a mash-up of little girl dresses, bondage, S&M, ballet costumes and Brownies uniforms – all thrown together with a pair of Doc Martens to boot. Just like Meadham, Albertine was pioneering individuality, fighting for freedom and striving for equality. “It was a comment on what was expected of girls at the time. Juxtaposing those ‘uniforms’ threw all of those roles into relief. It made you see them all differently and question them. Why are they so ridiculous? Why are we allowed to wear tutus and ribbons, but not dog collars and rubber stockings?”

Gender was irrelevant, they were unified by punk. “We weren’t critical of anyone that was thoughtful and relevant, but we were extremely critical of lazy and fake creativity,” recalls Albertine. “We weren’t verbally supportive and touchy-feely or all west coast about it, rather, nothing bad was said and you turned up to each others’ gigs if they were doing OK. We thought people who were not into what we were doing and thinking were backward.”

Leaving Byström to shoot a series of self-portraits wearing Reject Everything, we headed to Albertine’s Hackney home (where she lives with her 15 year-old daughter). What was behind the front door was somewhat unexpected. Rather than surfaces crowded with dust- coated ephemera, the new-build house was clean and modern, vacant of Albertine’s past; save for a framed photograph of herself, Debbie Harry, Siouxsie Sioux, Chrissie Hynde, Pauline Black and Poly Styrene. But, when you take into account that Albertine traded in the daily grind in favour of re-learning the guitar for her debut solo album The Vermilion Border – 33 years on from ‘Cut’ – it’s clear she’s still got it. Punk-rock luminary, coolest mum ever and Meadham Kirchhoff’s muse, in the words of Edward Meadham, “Viv Albertine is more punk than you’ll ever be.”

All clothing MEADHAM KIRCHOFF SS15

Film: Sharna Osborne.

Words: Brooke McCord.

Photographer: Arvida Byström.

Fashion Editor: Edward Meadham.

Hair: Sarah Jo Palmer.

Styling Assistant: Kathryn Hewwitson.

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LFW: Sophia Webster AW15

Wonderland Staff — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 15:02:46 +0000

A red and white stripped coca-cola candy-kane extravaganza, Sophia Webster is pumping up the pop for AW15.

Freak Like Me

With an invitation that read: “Freak Like Me”, we were expecting another insight into Webster’s wildly wicked world, and boy did we get one. Stepping foot inside Shaftesbury Avenue’s derelict Welsh Chapel, we were met by a diamond-print clad contortionist, bending her body to the most bizarre of shapes, complete with Sophia Webster heels, of course. Continuing our journey up the barely-standing metal spiral staircase, it was here we found the main event. A live presentation of blunt-bobbed girls wearing futuristic costumes, on a roundabout that signified Piccadilly Circus, Webster accessories on show.

Coca-Cola Candy Kane

Teaming up with Coca Cola this season, Webster presented hi-shine coke-print stilettos, complete with a heel of stacked up hearts. A glitter faced, red and white candy-cane-clad model made them hot property, leaving us to decide wether we should twin them with a Coca Cola print backpack or an “If You Only Drank Cherry Coke” clutch.

Clutch Control

Shoes aside, Webster is renowned for her tongue-in-cheek, covetable clutch bags, and this collection served plenty. Reading “Miss Thang”, “Touch My Clutch”, “Hot Stepper” and “Say My Name”, we can’t wait to get our hands on Webster’s backpack that read: “Sexy Back”.

Words: Brooke McCord.

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