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SARAH SUMFLETH talks Art Deco, lace and street style
Fashion designer Sarah Sumfleth fuses on-trend sportswear influences with intricate lacework to create understatedly chic clothing. Currently sold in French and Belgian indie boutiques, as well as in America, Australia and Asia, Sumfleth’s designs are currently available in the UK from über-cool online retailer THEN AND NOW. Sumfleth shares the secret of that certain je […]
EMERGING… Edward Crowell II
Edward Crowell II is an artist on the rise. Inspired by Latin jazz, poetry and notions of hedonism, freedom and desire, he sat down with Wonderland to discuss his hugely varied output.
Beach House – BLOOM
Beach House’s third album, Teen Dream, was drowned in praise last decade, sitting pretty at the top of a number of end-of-year lists after its 2008 release – which makes Bloom, the Baltimore duo’s newest offering, one of the year’s most anticipated albums.Wonderland couldn’t help but press the band‘s gifted and mystical chanteuse Victoria LeGrand […]
DAMIEN HIRST: In Retrospect
The first UK retrospective of controversy-courting conceptual artist Damien Hirst opens tomorrow at London’s TATE Modern. Responsible for the most expensive piece of artwork ever produced (a diamond encrusted skull, said to be worth £50m), and currently the richest living artist in the world, Hirst is the first to admit the line between artist and […]
HUMAN RESOURCES takes us shopping…
Human Resources is Brooklyn’s Jeremy Krinsley – producer, songwriter and ex editor of tastemaking arts and music zine, Impose. Ahead of the release of his debut LP this month, Oxyc Woody II, we asked Krinsley to take us round his home town, and discuss his distinctively lo-fi, rustic, and “spunkily rhythmic” sound.
VUITTON × TATE = The Hello Cube
As part of Tate Modern’s ongoing Yayoi Kusama exhibition, Infinite Kusama (which runs until June 5th and is sponsored by the Louis Vuitton Arts Project), artists Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis (AKA Hellicar & Lewis) recently established a groundbreaking sound and touch sensitive light display called The Hello Cube in the gallery’s Turbine Hall. […]
THEESatisfaction – “Turn off your swag!”
“Leave your face at the door and turn off your swag”, croon feminism’s new darlings: a playful jab at the thugged out skits that dominate today’s hip-hop scene, perhaps. The sun is shining and there is only so much swagged-out ego-blasting rap we can take – Sub Pop’s THEESatisfaction are a breath of fresh air. […]
INSA – Self Reflection is Greater Than Self Projection
INSA’s latest installation, Self Reflection is Greater Than Self Projection, allows visitors to literally step inside a salacious and darkly cynical art-world. His abstract pieces use digitally printed wall coverings which spread across entire gallery spaces. The effect is an optical illusion – one which depicts, almost voyeuristically, the goings-on of various salacious-looking women. The […]
EMERGING… Joe Webb
Joe Webb’s playful prints are a strangely familiar mash of references – think Casablanca, Disney’s Fantasia and 2001: A Space Odyssey. He spoke to Wonderland today about the work, currently on display at London’s prestigious Saatchi Gallery.
Odd Future’s new pop-up store in London
For the past few months, LA hip-hop rascals Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All have been busy touring the world’s major cities – as you do. Along with performances, the collective have literally been setting up shop in towns across the world, selling exclusive merchandise. As the group prepare to touch down in London […]
John Carter – WILLEM DAFOE
Talking to Willem Dafoe just after the release of his latest project, Pixar’s John Carter, Wonderland got the feeling he was as keen to find out about us as were were him – asking, “where are you from? I always ask journalists” – and discussing his distaste for egotism and working with artists he doesn’t […]
ART-illery: Roberto Visani
Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Roberto Visani turns guns into art. His sculptures are loaded with historical, cultural and political commentary. They are compositions of many pieces assembled to tell stories of people and places. Each sculpture has its unique appeal, aesthetically and conceptually, and each speaks volumes…
Liam Gillick × Pringle of Scotland
Wonderland quizzes artist Liam Gillick about his new line of products for Pringle of Scotland, which debuted at the SS12 show this morning.
Meet Damon Baker
Damon Baker walks one of those untouchable fashion lines between youth and talent. His images exude sex and youth, and demand a second look. For Wonderland’s latest issue, Baker traveled to Antwerp to shoot Walter von Beirendonck’s fashion archives with stylist Way Perry. We spoke with him about favourite designers, London haunts and his experience […]
Kenneth Anger Revisited
Alice Hutchison’s book on filmmaker, Kenneth Anger is revised and revisted in a new edition, published by Black Dog this month. Here the author discusses her relationship with Anger, and his influence on her work. She has also shared with us previously unpublished images of Kenneth Anger by portraitist Don Bachardy, Christopher Isherwood’s long-time partner.
Five Things You Never Knew About Jessica Chastain
As Hollywood stars go, Jessica Chastain has up til now been something of a quiet presence. Over the past months she’s been working with Hollywood greats including Terrence Malick, Al Pacino and Ralph Fiennes, but we’re only just starting to see the rather wonderful fruits of her work.
The Colours of Erik Ravelo
To celebrate Benetton key elements of Wool, Colour and the idea of Uniting people, the brand is hosting three simultaneous events on the 6th September. They will integrate an exhibition “Lana Sutra” by Erik Ravelo, 15 art installations made of bright coloured wools and sculptures. Here, the artist talks about his integration with Benetton and […]
Feeling Guilty with Frank Miller
Wonderland catches up with comic book legend and Hollywood giant Frank Miller, author of Sin City and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns to talk film, Gucci and superheroes vs Al-Qaeda. When Gucci first released its Gucci Guilty fragrance, the heart-racing, sci-fi tinged campaign gave us plenty of things to be excited about. There was the […]
Radfest Music Festival: Sexbeat
Nudie Jeans is teaming up with Sexbeat for their second annual Radfest Music Festival on Sunday 21 August, 2011. Taking place at The Bussey Building in Peckham, an old factory will be bumping with indie groups, exhibitions and lots of food. Here, we speak to Sexbeat’s Paul Lilley about the start of the group and […]
Audrina Patridge
Audrina Patridge was basically The Hills‘ MVP, ever since it all started. Now she’s got her own show, and is ready to get real. No, really.
Ben Barnes
Ben Barnes was Narnia‘s swashbuckling hearthrob. But in new film Killing Bono he’s laying down his sword.
Stacey Solomon
Smouldering at the camera in a Shoreditch studio, dressed in jodhpurs and brandishing a whip, Stacey Solomon doesn’t look much like the gawky, 19-year-old Dagenham girl of her first X Factor audition. Back then, she giggled constantly, was dressed in plimsolls and cutoffs and burst out with things like “I can’t believe you just said […]