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The Jewelry Designer Bringing Back Teardrops, Hearts and Smiley Rings, in the T List of January 25, 2023

The Jewelry Designer Bringing Back Teardrops, Hearts and Smiley Rings, in the T List of January 25, 2023

Brand to Know: An Innovative Jewelry Line Inspired by Flowers

Stephanie D’heygere launched her eponymous accessories brand in one of Île de la Cité’s flower market’s hothouse-like green steel pavilions where a variety of seasonal and exotic flowers are sold daily.

Contemporary artists find a common thread with 1970s and 1980s Belgian textile art

Elisa De Wyngaert has curated ‘Soft? Tactile Dialogues’, an exhibition staged by Antwerp’s fashion museum MoMu – and the very first one, in the museum’s 16-year history, to focus on textiles instead of fashion.

Stranger things: new label Kepler explores duality in fashion and beyond

Based on the idea of an alternative reality other than life on Earth as we know it, Kepler, a new London-based fashion brand by Alexandra Hadjikyriacou and Jaimee McKenna feels just like that: strangely familiar, yet stimulatingly singular.

Brand to Know: A Men’s Wear Line With a Nostalgic Bent

While other young brands may draw their inspiration from city streets or club scenes, Ernest W. Baker, a new men’s wear label, takes its name — and some aesthetic guidance — from an unlikely place: the designer Reid Baker’s 91-year-old grandfather.

Brand to Know: Men’s Wear Inspired by a Swedish-Kurdish Upbringing

The rising men’s wear line Namacheko, designed by the siblings Dilan and Lezan Lurr, makes deceptively simple clothes that are, in fact, loaded with personal meaning.

Rough ride: slashes and splashes invigorate Dior Homme

Dior Homme creative director Kris Van Assche draws from many inspirations – from cult director Larry Clark’s grimly realistic cinematic vision of youth to The xx’s melancholic indie music via Rinus Van de Velde’s intense narrative charcoal drawings.

Louis Vuitton S/S 2017

An example of the Paris and London fashion week coverage I wrote for Wallpaper* for a number of years.

Hat tricks: milliner Stephen Jones traces a lifetime of souvenirs

‘Transformative and fun’ is how Stephen Jones characterises his life’s work – millinery – in the introduction to his latest monograph, Souvenirs, penned by Susannah Frankel, and with a touching foreword by his close friend, Grace Coddington.

Acne Studios goes for gold in its Madison Avenue flagship

For the brand’s new flagship on Madison Avenue in New York, British designer Max Lamb created a furniture concept revolving around polycarbonate elements with gold accents and aluminium fittings with electrostatical gilding.

Vetements Stays Focused on the Clothes

This month, our Spotlight shines on Vetements, a young Paris-based label, entering its first season, run by an international collective of seven anonymous designers focused on deceptively simple, beautifully cut clothes.

Deceivingly, knitwear seems an unlikely suspect in the high-fashion world. Unravel: Knitwear in Fashion, counters the established idea of knitwear as old-fashioned and instead holds up an inspiring variety of knitted garments and accessories from the great fashion houses of the last centuries.

A Diamond Ring with Dual Personalities

The night the Belgian jewelry designer Kim Mee Hye created her signature Swing Swing Ring, she says, felt almost Shakespearean: “Nearly a meter of rain fell in 48 hours. There was hail, there was thunder, and there was lightning.”

Ahead of his first retrospective opening at Antwerp's Fashion Museum next month, Walter Van Beirendonck speaks to AnOther about the curation process, the difference between Antwerp and London and the future of fashion.

Nicolas Ghesquiere’s first collection for Louis Vuitton.

Nicolas Ghesquiere’s first collection for Louis Vuitton.

The Fashion Museum in Antwerp's latest show is an ode to the contemporary and historic panoply of plumes and feathers in fashion.

Stockholm Fashion Week coverage: Ann Sofie Back, Erïk Bjerkesjö, AlteWaiSaome.

Where fashion and art collide: The Alexander McQueen exhibition ‘Savage Beauty’ at the V&A.

Where fashion and art collide: The Alexander McQueen exhibition ‘Savage Beauty’ at the V&A.

Where fashion and art collide: The Alexander McQueen exhibition ‘Savage Beauty’ at the V&A.

Where fashion and art collide: The Alexander McQueen exhibition ‘Savage Beauty’ at the V&A.

My inclusion on the contributor page.

MoMu Now: Contemporary Fashion from the MoMu Collection

In Berlin, a New Shop That Offers Much More Than Shopping

Spanning the lower levels of the private club Soho House Berlin in the city’s Mitte district, a new space officially opening this weekend called, simply, the Store offers just about everything a creative professional might want under one roof: a place to work, to play and to indulge in a bit of spending.