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It’s September and time for our particular sort of Style Special. We have compiled our favourite new architects of fashion; Smiljan Radić works his truly timeless magic on the new Alexander McQueen flagship on London’s Bond Street, BIG’s Bjarke Ingel

Few practices explore architecture with the holistic approach and fervent passion of Spink. The London-based firm weaves together refined, contemporary design with the time-honed expertise of a master builder under the leadership of Michael Spink (se

With around 30,000 companies, Poland’s furniture sector is significant, but most of its output is as an anonymous supplier to high-profile Scandinavian brands. ‘Polish manufacturers have brilliant technology and knowledge at their disposal, yet they

Sustainability is moving to the forefront of most businesses’ modus operandi these days, but can any truly claim that what they do does no harm? The cosmetic industries are certainly aware that both economic and environmental survival now depends on

Alice Waters is considered something of an icon in culinary circles, so there was much excitement in the Wallpaper* office when we discovered that Permanent Collection, the California- and London-based purveyor of timeless accessories for the body an

In 2012, two young graphic design students presented a project at London’s Chelsea College of Arts. They’d concocted an idea for a Sky Arts ident that explored ‘anticipation’ through bowling balls and a steamrollered cake. They were chuffed with the

Guests are met at the aerobridge, driven to the CIP Terminal in an electric buggy, and escorted through a dedicated immigration counter. From S$710 (£414), raffles.com A fast-track service from the plane gate to a waiting limousine avoids queues by u

The idea that Paris is the fashion capital of the world is often conjured through images from the major maisons, steeped in glamour and luxury and with decades or even centuries of heritage. The biggest players are gatekeepers, in short, of an establ

Between 1987 and 1996, the Japanese photographer Shoichi Aoki captured fashion editors at Paris Fashion Week, striding across cobbled courtyards in high-waisted long black skirts and modest, matching jackets, or sitting together, hashing out the coll

In a way, fragrance and jewellery both play a contradictory role, designed as they are to elevate the personality of the wearer, yet also to become an almost imperceptible element of their character. ‘Jewellery has to be almost invisible, yet have re

Square metres of scalable climbing walls and three bouldering areas surrounding the Arthur Arbesser catwalk Centimetres of fuchsia tulle used to create a single smocked dress in Molly Goddard’s larger-than-life collection Rave-encouraging, ultraviole

Training shoes, sneakers or even kicks if you prefer, have become a key territory in the sustainable fashion turf war. The fashion industry’s environmental impact – it produces more carbon emissions than international flights and shipping combined –

‘The past five years have been like an apprenticeship,’ says Tina Lutz, standing in the sun-filled production hall of a small leather goods factory in the industrial area of Wuppertal, near Düsseldorf in north-western Germany. ‘My background is in ta

‘Timeless’ is a time-worn and more or less useless way of describing anyone’s work, particularly that of an architect. Architecture is as time-specific as fashion, even if the shifts in favoured materials and mannerisms are more tectonic. And yet the

What sets Selfridges apart from other high street retailers is reinvention, according to architect Roz Barr, whose firm designed Selfridges Creative Studios. She calls the studio the ‘brains’ of Selfridges, where 80 people collaborate to keep the sto

When London-based architecture firm Hesselbrand was approached in January 2019 by luxury streetwear brand Alyx to create a debut pop-up in Paris, it knew just how to respond. The fashion label’s hard-edged look incorporates skate culture, tattoos, ra

In recent years, Paris retail institution Galeries Lafayette has been working with Amanda Levete on restoring and upgrading its main space, with other outposts also focusing on fusing contemporary design with historic structures. Nowhere is this more

It started with a scarf. When siblings Andreas and Susanne Holzweiler tasked Snøhetta with creating a pop-up for Paris A/W18 fashion week, they requested furniture that would reflect the early years of the Holzweiler brand, when it specialised in woo

An artist and designer of engagingly eccentric, handcrafted objects, Duccio Maria Gambi is not a man of the fashion world, yet he shares an affinity with one of Milan’s most intriguing new clothing brands, Plan C, for which he has adopted the role of

A decade ago, the Frenchman Serge Cajfinger spotted Marcio Kogan’s Paraty House in an issue of Wallpaper* (W*131). He was so smitten, he told another magazine (it’s allowed) that he dreamed of having his own house built by the Brazilian architect som

When the 15-room Trunk (Hotel) opened two years ago in Shibuya, its contemporary design, buzzy ambience and creative collaborations filled a much-needed gap in Tokyo’s hotel scene. Now, its entrepreneurial founder Yoshitaka Nojiri has opened Trunk (H

YULE MOUNTAIN HOTEL, ZHEJIANG Yule Mountain is almost unrecognisable after a recent renovation by Continuation Studio. Framed by the tree-cloaked Tianmu Mountain, bamboo forests and a bijou creek, the 15-room property features stone-lined internal co

‘Art inspires technology. Technology completes art.’ It’s a thoughtful, regenerative philosophy that neatly describes the unique LG SIGNATURE aesthetic: architectural lines, tactile surfaces and grade-A material choices. Making reference to minimalis