Eliot Sumner Archives | Wonderland https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/tag/eliot-sumner/ Wonderland is an international, independently published magazine offering a unique perspective on the best new and established talent across all popular culture: fashion, film, music and art. Fri, 03 Mar 2017 12:35:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 ELIOT SUMNER: I FOLLOWED YOU HOME /2015/10/16/eliot-sumner-followed-home/ Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:09:43 +0000 http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/?p=58971 Wonderland favourite Eliot releases a tour-secret-filled video for her latest track ‘I Followed You Home’. Eliot Sumner has been pretty busy since we interviewed her for our bumper 10th Anniversary Issue, and by pretty busy we mean a seven week tour with a whopping 31 shows in the States. We’ve been twiddling our thumbs over here […]

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Eliot Sumner has been pretty busy since we interviewed her for our bumper 10th Anniversary Issue, and by pretty busy we mean a seven week tour with a whopping 31 shows in the States. We’ve been twiddling our thumbs over here in London, massively desperate to get to a show and just when we thought we couldn’t take it any longer, Eliot released the video for ‘I Followed You Home’ – a tour-clip extravaganza which has raised our excitement even higher. Featuring Eliot in a mostly black and white moodily shot series of tour events, live performances and backstage antics it has totally whet our appetites for what’s to come. The track, featuring Eliot’s husky tones, tells the story of the crazy choices made by someone in love. It’s kind of creepy in a we’ve-all-been-there kind of way, and we can’t stop clicking repeat. If you’ve become as obsessed with Eliot as us, take a look at her interview with David Hillier here, where the elusive indie rock star talks homeopathy, drug-smuggling and split-identities.

Eliot’s European tour runs from 2nd – 17th November.

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]]> Eliot /2015/09/29/57612/ Tue, 29 Sep 2015 12:07:31 +0000 http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/?p=57612 Ahead of the launch of her first LP Information, Eliot Sumner chats to David Hillier about homeopathy, drug-smuggling and split-identities with one of indie rock’s most elusive forces. Taken from the 10th Birthday Issue of Wonderland. Blue linen mix suit ELIOT’S OWN, white cotton shirt by ICEBERG and leather loafers with fur lining by GUCCI (worn throughout) […]

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Ahead of the launch of her first LP Information, Eliot Sumner chats to David Hillier about homeopathy, drug-smuggling and split-identities with one of indie rock’s most elusive forces.

Taken from the 10th Birthday Issue of Wonderland.

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Blue linen mix suit ELIOT’S OWN, white cotton shirt by ICEBERG and leather loafers with fur lining by GUCCI (worn throughout)

It’s 10pm, and in six hours Eliot Sumner will depart for the most important tour of her career.We’ve sank an armada of drinks since the afternoon, and the turbulent bassline of The Horrors’ “Sea Within A Sea” cannons off the walls of her Belgravia flat.

“I’m basically taking half a suitcase of drugs with me,” she says. It’s fair to say these old ears pricked up. Partly for reasons obvious, but mainly ‘cause said tour is a 31 date, six week, coast-to coast- schlep around America’s heartland.We wouldn’t advocate the trafficking of narcotics at the best of times, but doing so now seems an especially awful idea.“They’re homeopathic drugs,” she adds, face cracking into chisel-cheeked grin.“Honestly, I’ve got so much echinacea. I’m a total hypochondriac. As soon as I feel a little bit of a symptom, I’ll be taking something for it.” Although clearly pleased that Sumner won’t be risking the wrath of the U.S Marshals, there must be a slight measure of disappointment spread across my face. She offers to open another bottle of the “birthday wine” left over from her 25th.

The tour, starting in Milwaukee, heads down to Texas, Arizona, snakes up to Vancouver via LA, before crossing the country again to finish virtually where it started – in Chicago. It is the main topic of excitable conversation throughout my day and night with Sumner and her band guitarist Nick Benton, and in support of her new album, Information. Sumner and her band went away last winter, when they supported Lykke Li for 18 dates around Europe. It was an experience she describes as “awesome.” Her and the Swedish chanteuse are “great friends. [It was] brilliant for everyone to just hang out.” But this time it is very different.

She’s heading into bandit country, carrying only a bass guitar on her back.

“We’re about to get into something a lot of bands don’t get to do.We’re really going to get into the sticks of America, play dive bars, really build the foundations in a whole new continent.
It’s really cool. It’s the old troubadour way of doing things.” So she’s prepared? “Um, yes. We’re well rehearsed, but I’m not sure how prepared you can ever be for something like this,” she says, working that grin again. It’s a smile that anyone with the briefest knowledge of pop music will recognise as inherited from her father, Sting. She also shares his rhombus shaped, ever-so-squinted eyes, and her voice has the same low-timbered, transatlantic patois that has set the pace for a million first wedding dances.

I have been told not to ask question about her family, however. So I don’t. Instead we discuss the album she released in 2010, under another moniker, I Blame Coco. The first incarnation of Sumner was a vastly different beast – a genre-flitting, electro cousin of the indie landfill. Kinda like Ladyhawke, but Paris never really got burning.

“I’m embarrassed about my former I Blame Coco self, it gives me anxiety thinking about it. And when people mention it.” Is there anything she does like from it? “I can play “Self-Machine”, but I can’t listen to the recording,” she says. “I haven’t listened to those songs in four years.” She is clearly keen for us to not dwell on it, and to focus on the present. Understandable, certainly, but doing so is difficult when the change is so marked. Not least in her dress sense. Before it was Hawley Arms barmaid on a hen do.

Nowadays, she says she likes Boris Saberi’s clothes, Rick Owens, the “tamer” stuff of KTZ. It’s the look of the artful, street savvy underground, of the beat-makers and sunrise chasers.

How important is image to her in music? “Well,” she wonders, twiddling the straw in her ginger beer.“If it’s good it doesn’t matter what they look like. I mean, there was definitely really great moments from that part of my life, and I did have a lot of fun. But there was no look then, and the music wasn’t good. So there was nothing to justify it.”The same cannot be said of new album, Information. It’s a record of which she is deeply proud, and its musical landscape is a world away from her previous project. It’s suggested that there’s Krautrock influences and she’s effusive in her agreement, name-checking Tangerine Dream, Closter and Neu! So was it pre-meditated – did she set off wanting to make a tribute to that genre?

“I didn’t set out saying, ‘I wanna make a Krautrock album.’ Not really. I’d already written an album, but it’s not this album, and as soon as I met Duncan [Mills – a producer who has worked with the likes of The Vaccines, Spector and Crocodiles] he said ‘you should write more songs like this.’And he was talking about the song ‘Come Friday’, which is quite Kraut-y. Then the song ‘Information’ came, and everything fell into place.”

What of this other album you mention? “Well, I lived in the Lake District for six months, totally alone, and I built a little studio up there. I get distracted very easily, so I knew I had to completely isolate myself from everything.” Because you wanted to make this record or because you wanted isolation for another reason? “Both reasons, really. I needed to reset myself.” It doesn’t take a genius to read between the lines and see an isolation driven by heartache. But Sumner is reluctant to discuss it, especially in light of her current relationship status, of which she says,“I am in a relationship and I’m very happy.We both work hard but are very much apart of one another.”

Though she’ll admit there is a bleakness in some of her lyrics, Information is an album powered by positivity; a grown-up pop album that’s not afraid to admit it’s still got some growing up to do.This is never more so obvious than on the song “After Dark”, which deals with her lack of self-control when the vagaries of the night take a hold. Or the hear-it-once-know-the-words chorus to “Firewood”: “We’re just firewood/too soon to burn but we can’t wait/ we’re just firewood/too lost to take the things we crave.”

Her favourite is “Dead Arms And Dead Legs”, one of the record’s slower moments. Reflective and insular: “I have been out walking with these dead arms and these dead legs”, it’s less suited for the Lazer Cave, and instead perfect for a whisky strewn garrett. In many ways the album feels like a distillation of the artist as a young woman – strong, yes, and forging a new path she’s laid all herself, but with a cloak of vulnerability that makes her and the music very appealing.

As I leave her flat at around 11pm, Sumner is knocking around in the kitchen, showing Benton where the pots and pans are. The two have decided to start making pasta, a somewhat unconventional choice considering they are going to be up again in five hours. I then get woken by a text from Sumner at 2am, thanking me for coming round, so maybe sleeping just ain’t on her agenda. Oh well. Only 31 shows to go. Good job she’s got all that echinacea.

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Black wool knit turtleneck jumper by McQ

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Black cotton t-shirt by DIESEL BLACK GOLD

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Clockwise from top left: Black long sleeved jumper RIVER ISLAND, black cotton t-shirt by COACH(seen after) silver emblem necklace and suede cotton shorts both ELIOT’S OWN, black leather jacket with patches by SANDRO, t-shirt and necklace as before, black wool coat by SAINT LAURENT BY HEDI SLIMANE and black knit polo top by FENDI, and black trousers by GUCCI, black cotton t-shirt by COACH and shorts as before

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Clockwise from top left: Black wool coat by SAINT LAURENT BY HEDI SLIMANE, black trousers by GUCCI, black polo knit by FENDI and black jeans by ACNE, black leather jacket with zip detailing by McQ, grey t-shirt as before, suede and leather drawstring shorts by RICK OWENS and trainers by NIKE, SANDRO jacket as before, jumper and shorts as before

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Black hooded jumper ELIOT’S OWN, black cotton t-shirt by DIESEL BLACK GOLD and black cotton trousers with patches by KTZ

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Left: Grey cotton t-shirt ELIOT’S OWN. Right: Black trench coat with patches by SANDRO

‘Information’, will be released on January 22, 2016 following a UK live tour throughout October.

Fashion: Issey Brunner

Photographer: Fanny Latour-Lambert

Words: David Hillier

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]]> New Issue: Dane DeHaan shot by Matt Lambert /2015/09/18/new-issue-dane-dehaan-shot-matt-lambert/ Fri, 18 Sep 2015 12:19:27 +0000 http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/?p=56446 Halfway through our cover reveals – young Hollywood’s fresh-faced poster boy, Dane DeHaan is next up. Anton Corbijn’s golden boy Dane DeHaan plays James Dean in biopic Life. Discussing his idol and his work to date, the one time Prada face bares all in our cover feature for our 10th birthday issue. Inside we rewind to 2005 […]

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Anton Corbijn’s golden boy Dane DeHaan plays James Dean in biopic Life. Discussing his idol and his work to date, the one time Prada face bares all in our cover feature for our 10th birthday issue.

Inside we rewind to 2005 with a Prada retrospective and delve into Gareth Pugh’s hallowed archives. We hand pick the best of the next, selecting the fastest-risers of the year, putting them through their paces, grilling every up-and-comer you should know about in 2015. Finally, we’ve catalogued the names of now, shot only by talents as great, with 10 cover stars spanning music, film and fashion.

Photographer: Matt Lambert

Fashion: Andrew Davis

Grooming: Servullo

A Decade of Wonderland.

Selena Gomez by Petra Collins

FKA twigs by Matthew Stone

Dane DeHaan

Ten years of Prada

Gaspar Noé’s Love

Eliot Sumner

Zoë Kravitz

Emma Roberts

Hailee Steinfeld

Gareth Pugh

Bella Hadid

Lucky Blue

 

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]]> New Issue: Lucky Blue shot by Christian Oita /2015/09/17/new-issue-lucky-blue/ Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:39:45 +0000 http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/?p=56382 Male model of the moment Lucky Blue Smith shot by Christian Oita is the next star to grace our 10th birthday issue cover. Lucky Blue wears DSQUARED2 Peroxide blonde pin-up Lucky Blue Smith is the next candidate in our cover star reveal. The teenager has taken the fashion world by storm fronting fashion weeks left […]

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Peroxide blonde pin-up Lucky Blue Smith is the next candidate in our cover star reveal. The teenager has taken the fashion world by storm fronting fashion weeks left right and centre and with super-spreads in every iconic fashion title.

Inside we rewind to 2005 with a Prada retrospective and delve into Gareth Pugh’s hallowed archives. We hand pick the best of the next, selecting the fastest-risers of the year, putting them through their paces, grilling every up-and-comer you should know about in 2015. Finally, we’ve catalogued the names of now, shot only by talents as great, with 10 cover stars spanning music, film and fashion.

Photographer: Christian Oita

Fashion: Matthew Josephs

Makeup: Thom Walker

Hair: Kota Suizu

Fashion Assistant: Toni-Blaze and Kathryn McKerrall

Photographer’s Assistant: Dan Douglass

A Decade of Wonderland.

Selena Gomez by Petra Collins

FKA twigs by Matthew Stone

Dane DeHaan

Ten years of Prada

Gaspar Noé’s Love

Eliot Sumner

Zoë Kravitz

Emma Roberts

Hailee Steinfeld

Gareth Pugh

Bella Hadid

Lucky Blue

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]]> New Issue: FKA twigs shot by Matthew Stone /2015/09/16/new-issue-fka-twigs-shot-matthew-stone/ Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:24:25 +0000 http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/?p=55930 The next instalment in our 10th birthday issue cover reveal. Artistic force, FKA twigs shot and interviewed by Matthew Stone. FKA twigs wears GIVENCHY HAUTE COUTURE BY RICCARDO TISCI You saw our big reveal of Selena Gomez last night, right? Next up on the roster we’ve got FKA twigs, the voguing whirlwind who’s made creativity cool […]

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You saw our big reveal of Selena Gomez last night, right? Next up on the roster we’ve got FKA twigs, the voguing whirlwind who’s made creativity cool again. Our bumper 10 year edition is over 400 pages of shoots and stories. Interviewed and shot by the inimitable Matthew Stone, twigs talks us through M3LL155X, her weirdest and most wonderful work yet.

Inside we rewind to 2005 with a Prada retrospective and delve into Gareth Pugh’s hallowed archives. We hand pick the best of the next, selecting the fastest-risers of the year, putting them through their paces, grilling every up-and-comer you should know about in 2015. Finally, we’ve catalogued the names of now, shot only by talents as great, with 10 cover stars spanning music, film and fashion.

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Photographer: Matthew Stone

Fashion: Matthew Josephs

Makeup: Daniel Sallstrom using M.A.C Cosmetics

Hair: Jawara at Coffin Inc. using Bumble & Bumble

Fashion Assistant: Toni-Blaze

Photographer’s Assistant: Sam Nixon

Set Design: Alun Davies

A Decade of Wonderland.

Selena Gomez by Petra Collins

FKA twigs by Matthew Stone

Dane DeHaan

Ten years of Prada

Gaspar Noé’s Love

Eliot Sumner

Zoë Kravitz

Emma Roberts

Hailee Steinfeld

Gareth Pugh

Bella Hadid

Lucky Blue

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]]> New Issue: Bella Hadid by Ben Rayner /2015/09/16/new-issue-bella-hadid-ben-rayner/ Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:58:07 +0000 http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/?p=56259 The next of our 10th birthday cover reveals – California girl, Bella Hadid. The best Hadid. Bella wears TOPSHOP UNIQUE All sweetness and light, we shoot LA dream girl Bella Hadid on Mulholland Drive all glammed up in the best of Topshop Unique AW15. Missed Selena Gomez’s flower girl moment and inside sneak peak? You’ll be […]

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All sweetness and light, we shoot LA dream girl Bella Hadid on Mulholland Drive all glammed up in the best of Topshop Unique AW15. Missed Selena Gomez’s flower girl moment and inside sneak peak? You’ll be able to get your mitts on a copy soon, don’t worry. Plus, we’ve still got plenty more covers to reveal.

Inside we rewind to 2005 with a Prada retrospective and delve into Gareth Pugh’s hallowed archives. We hand pick the best of the next, selecting the fastest-risers of the year, putting them through their paces, grilling every up-and-comer you should know about in 2015. Finally, we’ve catalogued the names of now, shot only by talents as great, with 10 cover stars spanning music, film and fashion.

Photographer: Ben Rayner

Fashion: Danielle Emerson

Makeup: Tamah Krinksy

Hair: Caile Noble

A Decade of Wonderland.

Selena Gomez by Petra Collins

FKA twigs by Matthew Stone

Dane DeHaan

Ten years of Prada

Gaspar Noé’s Love

Eliot Sumner

Zoë Kravitz

Emma Roberts

Hailee Steinfeld

Gareth Pugh

Bella Hadid

Lucky Blue

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]]> New Issue: Selena Gomez shot by Petra Collins /2015/09/14/new-issue-selena-gomez-shot-petra-collins/ Mon, 14 Sep 2015 20:53:48 +0000 http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/?p=55918 The 10th Anniversary Issue of Wonderland is about to hit shelves – this time one of our cover stars is Disney kid turned pop idol, Selena Gomez, shot and interviewed by Petra Collins. Selena wears Miu Miu Selena Gomez is coming to our 10th birthday party and you’re all invited. Our bumper 10 year edition […]

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Selena Gomez is coming to our 10th birthday party and you’re all invited. Our bumper 10 year edition is over 400 pages of shoots and stories, we just wanted to look extra “Good For You” on such an occasion. Petra Collins unravels the very real hardships of being a teen sensation and growing up in the limelight with Ms Gomez in LA.

Inside we rewind to 2005 with a Prada retrospective and delve into Gareth Pugh’s hallowed archives. We hand pick the best of the next, selecting the fastest-risers of the year, putting them through their paces, grilling every up-and-comer you should know about in 2015. Finally, we’ve catalogued the names of now, shot only by talents as great, with 10 cover stars spanning music, film and fashion.

Photographer: Petra Collins

Fashion: Danielle Emerson

Makeup: Jake Bailey at Starworks using M.A.C

Hair: Lona Vigil at The Magnet Agency

Fashion Assistant: Kendall Finzer

Photography Assistant: Kailae Chambers

A Decade of Wonderland.

Selena Gomez by Petra Collins

FKA twigs by Matthew Stone

Dane DeHaan

Ten years of Prada

Gaspar Noé’s Love

Eliot Sumner

Zoë Kravitz

Emma Roberts

Hailee Steinfeld

Gareth Pugh

Bella Hadid

Lucky Blue

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