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THE ONES WE LOVE

Wonderland Staff — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:02:57 +0000

Rafferty Law, Michele Opiyo and Brazilian-native Valentina Sampaio star in TopShop’s Christmas campaign THE ONES WE LOVE.

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LFW: Topshop SS18

Wonderland Staff — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:24:05 +0000

In which West End Girls go bling.

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LFW: Topshop Unique AW17

Wonderland Staff — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:53:07 +0000

The latest offering from Topshop Unique sees the brand paying tribute to the 1990’s.

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Molly Goddard × Topshop

Wonderland Staff — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 18:48:18 +0000

Our faves Molly Goddard and TOPSHOP team up for this year’s best shoe collab!

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I’m Lovin’ It

Wonderland Staff — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:17:42 +0000

Louisa Johnson’s debut X-Factor appearance last year left the show’s judges so slack-jawed they jokingly considered ending the series there and then.

Taken from the Autumn Issue of Wonderland

T-shirt RAT & BOA, shorts MIU MIU

We all know how the X-Factor works: the saccharine personal assassinations showreel comprises sob stories about dead kittens, and emotional montage scores that, despite your best efforts to remain cynical, make your hairs stand on end. Sometimes however, a singer comes along who makes you sit up and take notice. When then 17-year-old Louisa Johnson took to the X-Factor stage in ripped jeans, air max and (what would become her signature) red bandana and belted a spellbinding cover of Michael Jackson’s “Who’s Loving You?”, it was the first time I stopped dunking my chocolate digestives into a mug of tea and paid attention. The judges did the same, bolting upright like they’d just been on the receiving end of an electric shock. Before she’d even finished her 15 seconds of onstage fame, the whole audience were on their feet applauding like a stampede of elephants, and as she warbled the last note, next to tears at their reaction, the judges attempted to lift their jaws off the floor.

“That is what you call a singer!” Exclaimed Simon Cowell. “A little superstar,” said Cheryl Cole, grinning from ear to ear, and the battle between the industry insiders to secure Johnson as their own began. Johnson, who grew up on episodes of X-Factor, never expected this to happen. “I watched it just growing up and knew this was something that I had to do. Leona Lewis was just amazing and so pretty, and it’s when I saw her on it that I really started to take it seriously as a goal.”

Johnson eschewed her place at performing arts school Urban Edge near Chelmsford to take part in the competition. How wild were these days? “To be honest, I would always rather just be in my room singing karaoke,” the singer admits. “I just wanted to sing, it’s all I really cared about.”

It’s certainly paid off, with the judges agreeing in unison that there was almost no point in continuing with the show after her initial performance. The show did go on, however, with Johnson under the mentorship of Rita Ora. “I think Rita inspired me the most, because she’s young too and we had so many ideas together. She helped me a lot,” Johnson enthuses. “She always told me to be myself, to remain strong mentally. I think it’s the most important advice anyone can give you.”

Throughout the twelfth series of X-Factor, we were treated to a plethora of awe-inspiring performances from the star, who took each track and made it her own. Her cover of Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself ” broke hearts the country over, in a way only Biebs had managed to at this point. The real winner (quite literally) was Johnson’s performance that stole and won her the show, an entirely unexpected version of Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young.” I have to admit as a die-hard Dylan fan I was dubious about the bold choice, but in true Louisa Johnson fashion, she made it her own — to the point of almost making the audience believe she wrote it herself.

How has everyone reacted to her shoot to fame, I ask? “Everyone’s been so supportive and amazing!” she says, with a Cheshire cat grin. “My family, friends, my fans. I love them and I love to inspire them daily via my Instagram,” she explains. “I just want to make them feel like they are important and special, because everyone is.”

Signed to Simon Cowell’s label Syco, it looks like Johnson has the ideal dream team in place. “I really admire [Cowell],” She says. “It’s definitely scary, the fame that comes with X-Factor, but I’m doing everything I’ve always dreamed about and him and Rita have helped me so much.They’re so supportive and it’s really great.”

So when can we expect the album, I venture? “I’m in the studio quite a bit at the moment, which is super-fun!” she exclaims. “It’s been quite difficult to go straight from the show to the studio, but I just want to share my music. For me, my music is like a diary: it’s very real and honest, and I like to be open.”

“It’s not one kind of genre,” she continues. “I love Caribbean-vibe music, Beyoncé, old school R&B and everything from the 90s. I think people are going to be surprised when they hear it!” Does she have any stories from the studio, then? “It’s really hard to explain, it’s just all about the vibe… like, it’s crazy and I’m always saying: ‘Oh god! We started with one word and now we’re here.’”

Jacket, shirt and jewellery MIU MIU

Jacket ALPHA INDUSTRIES, jumper MARKUS LUPFER, skirt KSUBI, necklace TATTY DEVINE, socks FALKE, shoes ZADIG & VOLTAIRE

Jumper LIBERTINE, shorts KSUBI

Coat J.CREW, top NOORVANA, shorts MIU MIU

Photographer: Rosaline Shahnavaz

Fashion: Sam Carder

Hair: Hiroshi Matsushita using KIEHL’S

Makeup: Jade Bird using MAC COSMETICS

Nails: Jess Young using TOPSHOP

Photographer’s assistant: Meg Nixon

Fashion assistant: Eva Klein

Words: Laura Isabella

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Let’s Eat Grandma

Wonderland Staff — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:35:42 +0000

Meet spellbound witch-pop duo Let’s Eat Grandma, who recorded their debut LP in a nuclear bunker in rural Norwich.

Taken from the Autumn Issue of Wonderland

Rosa (left) wears top (worn underneath) AMERICAN APPAREL, top BLK DENIM, tights TOPSHOP. Jenny (right) wears top THEORY, vest NASIR MAZHAR, jeans MODEL’S OWN, tights (worn underneath) MY TIGHTS

After school activities in your late teens normally include chasing after boys and not doing your homework, but for 17-year-olds Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth — AKA Let’s Eat Grandma — their free time has, for the most part, revolved around writing debut album, I Gemini. Let’s Eat Grandma, a name the self-proclaimed witches took from the common grammatical error, and not from a macabre, cadaver-related hobby, are the eeriest, most magical girls in psych-pop.

Norwich’s Hollingworth and Walton have been inseparable since the age of four, and despite parting ways for most of their education, their natural sister-like bond is hefty. Joking that they are both actually witches, Hollingworth recalls how “[Rosa] put a spell on me — I had to join the band. I thought: ‘Dammit, I wanted to be a lawyer’.” Indeed, the duo is so in sync (both in attitude and looks) it’s easy to imagine that to the unknowing eye, they would be mistaken for twins. Bonding over Enid Blyton’s fantasy saga The Faraway Tree as children, Walton and Hollingworth tapped into their witchy roots and built magical treehouses to escape the real world — citing Bart Simpson’s very own oaky sanctuary as inspiration. Perhaps it was this time spent together — immersing themselves in a make-believe world full of the weird and wonderful — that galvanised their tripped out psych sound. “I don’t think we ever really intended anything when we started out. I think we were doing it all as a big experiment, and I think it continues to grow like that,” explains Hollingworth.

Despite their Rapunzel-like hair, Let’s Eat Grandma are anything but your average Disney princesses. “We both play keyboards, guitars, drums and sing. Jenny plays the saxophone…” says Walton. “Rosa plays the harmonica, and we both do some mandolin and glockenspiel,” Hollingworth adds. It’s like they were never told that it’s hard to play more than one instrument at once.

Many of the tracks on I Gemini evoke darkly cartoonish imagery, mixing fairy-tale-like piano melodies with bone-chilling guitar riffs and haunting lyrics. But it’s their ability to breezily contemplate the trials and tribulations of modern-day life through song that, for a pair of late adolescents, really sets Let’s Eat Grandma apart. “What is reality?” Hollingworth quizzes when I press her on this. “[The album] talks a lot about escapism. It’s got a lot of vivid imagery, but it also takes the piss out of a lot of things… It’s about how we experience the world, about senses,” whilst Walton continues, “It’s about observations of people; it’s about dreams.” The sound is raw, gritty, hallucinogenic, and taps into your subconscious; it’s a sound deemed psychedelic, sludgy pop for a reason.

Recorded in Norfolk’s Old School Studios — an ex-nuclear bunker, which came fully equipped with lava lamps, ghosts and old analogue equipment. “The first set of songs we wrote weren’t actually planned to go on an album together,” says Hollingworth. “We were like: ‘Well, we’ve written these now. And they were like: ‘Why don’t you release an album?’” Never ones to let the bosses tell them what to do, the pair contemplated their next move, hard. “I’d say we’re quite head-strong about what we want, poor them… [Our creative process is] like a very long jam session, for ever, and ever, and ever.” “We just keep playing shit and seeing what happens. Then we do some spells,” adds Walton. Any more information about their potion-brewing, ghost-summoning and magical chanting is not to be divulged to us mere mortals. “All our other secrets are up our long, witchy sleeves,” she jests. It’s almost like Let’s Eat Grandma aren’t aware that rules exist; let’s hope they never realise.

Photography: Johanna Nyholm

Fashion: Abigail Hazard

Words: Annabel Lunnon

Hair: Sarah Jo Palmer

Makeup: Verity Cumming using TOM FORD

Fashion Assistant: Eva Klein

Art Direction: Kat Jenkins

Thanks to Apiary Studios

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LFW: Topshop Unique SS17

Wonderland Staff — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:46:36 +0000

Topshop Unique SS17 goes back in time to fashion’s favourite decade.

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Taylor Hill for Topshop AW16

Wonderland Staff — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:38:51 +0000

Topshop take us on a trip inside the world of Taylor Hill for AW16 with her adorable fluffy companion, Tate.

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Topshop Unique AW16 Launches In Store

Wonderland Staff — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:38:26 +0000

Topshop Unique AW16 is here with racy femininity and boyish cuts.

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Model Behaviour: Rachel

Wonderland Staff — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 13:44:23 +0000

Mafalda Silva and Jess Whitbread introduce us to Rachel Marston at First Model Management.

Dress SOPHIE CULL-CANDY

Can you tell us about how you got scouted?

I was shopping back home in Manchester when I was 16, after that it all happened so fast and I was living in London, on my own one month after. A few years later, I am still modelling and love every second.

What have you been up to since you got scouted?

I have travelled to some amazing places, lived in Paris, Hong Kong, Beijing and London for short periods of time. Meeting Vivienne Westwood, in Paris during PFW was a great experience, she even did the corset up I was wearing at the fitting for her show. I have also shot some worldwide campaigns, super fun with such amazing teams!

What’s your favourite thing that you’ve worn on a shoot or in a show that you wish was yours?

I opened a show last year for Cricket fashion, and wore the most amazing Givenchy knee high boots.

Who would be your dream photographer to work with? Or your dream designer to work for?

Kristian Schuller and Steven Chee are two photographers I would love to work with! There is also Mario Sorrenti and Paolo Roversi that are my dream to shoot with. So, many dreams and great goals for the future.

What do you do when you’re not modelling?

At the moment I am a full time model, and just do my photography on the side for fun and creativeness.

What’s been your favourite moment as a model so far?

Shooting with Elephants in Paris was the most amazing experience ever, I would love to have the opportunity to shoot with more animals.

Which city would you love to live in?

There are so many! But the first one that pops into my head is Paris, it’s so beautiful!

Do you prefer shoots or shows?

I love shows because it gives me an adrenaline rush, but shoots are also my favourite as I love getting the new images back and I love to work with great people. I really enjoy the buzz of it all.

What do you do with your time off?

I love to workout, and of course do my photography. I also have a two pet snakes, my favourite one is Dextor, he’s a beautiful Red Tailed Boa. Besides that I am a lover for Instagram!

What song always gets you dancing and what music do you like?

Always got to love some old school hip hop, as a favourite. But I love everything from Reggae to Pop.

Earrings DYRBERG KERN, velvet choker TOPSHOP, bra Miss Crofton, trousers WEEKDAY

Hoops DYRBERG KERN, top SOPHIE CULL-CANDY

Earrings DYRBERG KERN, top and skirt SOPHIE CULL-CANDY, high waist briefs AMERICAN APPAREL

Earrings DYRBERG KERN, velvet choker TOPSHOP, bra MISS CROFTON

Dress SOPHIE CULL-CANDY

Earrings DYRBERG KERN, velvet choker TOPSHOP, bra MISS CROFTON

Panties MISS CROFTON

Hoops DYRBERG KERN, top SOPHIE CULL-CANDY, trousers WEEKDAY

Earrings DYRBERG KERN, top and skirt SOPHIE CULL-CANDY, high waist briefs AMERICAN APPAREL

Earrings DYRBERG KERN, top and skirt SOPHIE CULL-CANDY

Photography and Styling: Mafalda Silva

www.mafalda-silva.com @mafaldasilva

Hair and Makeup: Jess Whitbread

http://www.jesswhitbread.com/ @_jesswhitbread

Model: Rachel Marston at First Model Management

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