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2015 was a great year for Wonderland. We don’t like to boast, but we partied all night with Lindsay Lohan at our 10th birthday, we made 10 covers for our anniversary issue, we collaborated with the likes of Hedi Slimane, Ryan McGinley and Petra Collins and worked with superstars like Katy Perry, Little Mix, Kristen Stewart, Selena Gomez and Lucky Blue. We’ve been busy.

Don’t worry, 2015 wasn’t all about us. Culture went well and truly pop around the world with the stratospheric rise of Justin Bieber breaking records set by The Beatles, the global sob when One Direction announced their hiatus and we all became obsessed with Lily Rose Depp, because, well, she’s Lily Rose Depp.

While pop might have ruled this year, 2015 was also the opportunity to break out of the norm. Kanye West headlined Glastonbury despite an angry mob of petition-signers trying to stop him. Grime climbed the charts in the UK and US and Britain’s MCs started to get the recognition they deserved. Finally our favourite revolutionary, Caitlyn Jenner, instantly became the poster-woman for trans-rights after her Vanity Fair cover and pioneered to increase everyone’s awareness surrounding the issues transgender people often have to face.

All in all, it’s been a pretty good year for pop culture. We can’t wait to see what 2016 has in store. Here’s our favourite moments from the 2015.

Best Music Video

Winner: Rihanna – “Bitch Better Have My Money”

Ok, so we haven’t got the album yet but BBHMM was almost enough to keep us satisfied all year. Ri’s saturated offering of nudity, drugs, violence and adventure sparked a thousand think pieces and we almost had as much fun reading them and rolling our eyes as we did making gifs of the video. An anthem and a badass one at that.

Runner Up: Drake – “Hotline Bling”

It’s Drake, dad dancing, what more could you ask for? If you say you haven’t tried to replicate this dance when the song comes on in a club then you’re a liar. Or just boring.

Best Song

Winner: Kendrick Lamar – “Alright”

We could have put almost any song from To Pimp A Butterfly in the top spot with no regrets. “Alright” is a rip roaring call to solidarity that was poignantly chanted by protestors at the Black Lives Matter conference and stuck with us ever since.

Runner Up: Fetty Way – “Trap Queen”

Just a bit of a banger tbh. Don’t think anyone can really argue with that.

Best Comeback

Winner: Justin Bieber

Well Biebs hadn’t really gone anywhere, it’s his transformation we’re admiring him for. This year he got up to all sorts including being ridiculed on TV in the name of entertainment, landing a CK campaign, making tracks with Diplo and Skrillex, giving tell-all interviews about how he’s a grown up now and finally, dropping an incredible album. JB’s a man now and a talented one at that having smashed records set by The Beatles when 17 of his songs placed on the Billboard Top 100, the most in one week by one artist since the Fab Four had 14 at once in 1964 (a total that Drake managed to match twice this year too).

Runner Up: Adele

She’s just the queen really, whether you’re like Adele’s music or not, there’s no-one who can do what she does. “Hello” has had 857million views in 2 months, anyone else managed that, hands up?

Honorable Mention: Agyness Deyn

We couldn’t leave out Aggy after we put her on our Winter Issue cover! She made the most stylist comeback of all, bejewelled and on a Saint Laurent catwalk, the stuff of dreams.

Best Collection: Gucci Menswear SS16

Alessandro Michele has gone beyond our wildest dreams for what Gucci could have become in 2015. Taking over the reigns rather speedily, he transformed the tired conventions of one of the world’s most revered fashion houses into a youthful, vibrant and most importantly, a playful indicator of what luxury fashion can be in 2015 (or rather to be worn in 2016).

Runner Up: Vetements RTW SS16

Demna Gvasalia is calling all young things, and old things, any things who don’t take themselves to seriously. All things who could burn up and dance floor, or any floor, basically. The club kids have been dissected for SS16. Gosha Rubchinskiy led the show down the runway in a DHL t shirt and leather trousers, why? Why not. Cropped hair, Titanic hoodies, anything and everything goes. It just needs to be Vetements, or obscure enough for you to pretend that it is.

Special Mention: Loewe’s eponymous print and Miu Miu’s boots

Just obvs.

Best Pop Culture Moment: Shia LaBeouf Watching All His Films In Succession

This was peak 2015. Shia is our favourite hot mess. After him shouting “JUST DO IT” and before he opened his phone line so you could touch his soul, his personal marathon ensued. It’s still a bit of a mystery why he wanted to spend three days watching all of his own cinematic moments with a live audience, but he did, and the reactions provided us with enough memes to last until 2016 is over.

Worst Pop Culture Moment: One Direction Announcing Their Hiatus

Ok so Zayn’s gone, we’d just about recovered from that, now the rest of One Direction have decided is the right moment to have some time off. Our tiny aching hearts are still healing. At least we’ve still got Bieber, for now.

Best Film

Winner: Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Runner Up: Tangerine

The film that’s taking on the Academy Awards, Tangerine is pioneering in more than one way. Firstly shot entirely on iPhones (don’t get any ideas, we’re not all directors waiting to be discovered), this dark comedy follows two transgender women on the less than shiny streets of Hollywood, working the corners. Caitlyn Jenner is campaigning for Mya Taylor to receive an Academy Award as supporting actress. Watch this space.

Best Wonderland Moment

Winner: FKA twigs’ Six Pack

One of the weirdest and most wonderful things we’ve ever done, reuniting Matthew Stone, Matthew Josephs and FKA twigs brought us a mixed gender mythological creature dressed in Givenchy haute couture. We hope you’ve got the poster on your wall.

Runner Up: Katy Perry’s Eyebrows

You would not believe the scandal we caused by bleaching Katy Perry’s eyebrows. Have a little scroll online at the posts about this cover and you can see for yourself. Here’s some advice for 2016, if you get your hands on a global pop icon, don’t bleach their brows, unless you’re ready for the backlash.

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Tinsel town

The most striking elements of Loewe SS16 of course lie with Jonathan Anderson’s use of hologram metallics, broken shards of mirror and exaggerated silver tinsel detail. And who knew you could put such luxury into transparent plastic? Anderson has said he aims to “sharpen the edge”, and this season is a perfect example of his stylistic innovation leaving a stamp on the old school fashion house. Plastic wrap trousers, as well as silver metallic trousers reflected off a multitude of lights, brightening up otherwise simple blacks and whites. It’s a product of 2016 meeting halfway in-between (very stylish) futurism – it was believable; a realistic take on what we’d want to wear if we were projected into a future dimension. By no means was this a collection characterised by space-age though, and Anderson’s random injections of pastel yellows, pinks and purples combined with beiges and suede tans reminded us of that fact.

That Loewe-go

On a side note, it was impossible to miss the exaggerated Loewe logo seeping in and out of the collection as it rolled off the runway. Remade as a print fabric, it was seen making up the bigger parts of some outfits on dresses, trousers and bomber jackets. And alongside this running motif, nothing Anderson does pulls a collection together better than his cleverly positioned jewellery and accessories. Bold, colourful and metallic, bangles and statement earrings and necklaces finished off the job with help from the puzzle bag which has been lapping up attention in its own right. For a designer who is keen not to keep everything matching, this collection is a prime example of that trademark at play: from Anderson’s loveable yet illogical colour scheme, to his use of fearlessly odd earrings and deliberately mismatched shoes.

The Loewe we know

Anderson has got the Loewe woman on lockdown – he has ever since he first joined the company three seasons ago. She’s confident, defiant and loves making statements with unpredictable colour. She also gets bored – and Anderson is always striving to keep up with the modern female fashion consumer. He takes Loewe – an old, Spanish luxury leather brand – and begins to question how he can innovate the idea of leather into new types of a second skin. His response is PVC and moulded synthetics; manmade creations that replace as well as work alongside the trusted leather component. All round, his relentless boundary-pushing, not only in materials, but how they all work together is a total success and will certainly become a big inspiration for many.

Words: Hannah Sargeant

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