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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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Shia LaBeouf has had a long and illustrious career: he first won our hearts as perennially sweaty dork, Louis Stevens, then as a big-budget movie actor in everything from Wall Street to Eagle Eye. After that, there was a short lived time as a plagiarising graphic novelist and, for the past couple of years, he’s been a strange kind of semi-controversial performance artist.

These performances began, of course, with that paper-bag stunt back in 2014 at the Nymphomaniac premiere (“I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE”). Most recently, his endlessly memed #ALLMYMOVIES project saw him watching all 72-hours of his own films surrounded by adoring members of the public. The results were, as we already know, hilarious, as Shia grimaced and laughed through his entire oeuvre – warts (AKA every Transformers ever) and all.

Now he’s back with a new performance piece called #TOUCHMYSOUL which allows for an even greater level of public interaction than #ALLMYMOVIES. It basically involves Shia and two collaborators (Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner) sitting in Liverpool’s Fact Gallery and taking calls from the public as the whole thing is live streamed. So, if you fancy talking to your favourite, many-times-arrested, spandex-wearing, totally unconvnetional celeb, make his hotline bling over the next four days on +44 (0)151 808 0771. We’ll be watching.

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After all his highs and lows, we still love Shia LaBeouf. Although it might seem like he’s the subject of headlines more often than not, he’s got a strange charm about him. From his art shows and red carpet stunts to his roles in a varied selection of films, from Hollywood blockbusters like Transformers to niche roles, like his appearance in Nymphomaniac, we’re always wondering what is going on in his head. It could all be the master plan of an enigma, or he could just be having a great time between working and going wild.

Either way, happy 29th birthday Shia! Here’s your best moments.

EVEN STEVENS

This was the way most of us first saw Shia. A cheeky but sweet little brother on Even Stevens. He reportedly auditioned with a stand-up routine not quite fit for a 10-year-old and of course, stole the show.

HOLES

Playing Stanley Yelnats in Holes as a teen, Shia was still a baby-faced actor making his first moves. In, the critically acclaimed book turned movie, starring alongside alien babe Sigourney Weaver, Shia won all our hearts as the falsely accused underage criminal, forced to dig holes in the desert as his sentence.

SKYWRITING

Accused of plagiarising work by Daniel Clowes, Shia decided to apologise via the medium of skywriting. In LA. Where Daniel Clowes doesn’t live. Neither subtle nor effective but his written apologies have apparently since been plagiarised too.

PAPER BAG

If you want to slip by quietly unnoticed on the red carpet, surely the one thing you don’t do is wear a paper bag on your head. His attempt to dispel any claims he was famous was of course, unsuccessful as press worldwide spread the images instantaneously.

MIA GOTH

Meeting on set for a film called Nymphomaniac might not be a conventional way of beginning relationships but Mia Goth and Shia have managed it. The pair met on set for Lars Von Trier’s movie in 2013 and are since rumoured to be engaged after a ring was spotted on 21-year-old Mia’s finger.

SIA’S ELASTIC HEART

It’s not the first time Shia has dabbled in music videos (he got naked for Sigur Ros that one time, remember?), but his performance alongside Dance Moms star Maddie Ziegler was completely unexpected. Of course the internet was in uproar over the ambiguous film of the teenager and then 28-year-old both wearing nude underwear and performing expressively, but Sia herself since apologised explaining that her only intention was to make something emotive.

MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER

Shia’s most recent viral moment? His motivational speech from his 31 minute video, made with Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner, as part of his latest foray into the art world. Shot in front of a green screen, it’s Shia exclaiming that you need to “JUST DO IT” to the point where it all gets just a bit overwhelming. That’s the beauty of it though, as it’s perfectly ridiculous alone but because of the screen, anyone at all can edit their own versions. Google it. You could find absolutely anything. Don’t blame us if you end up in an Internet black hole at 4am.

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