Dal Chodha

3 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Dal Chodha

A house that is like a total work of art. This was what the Belgian artist and painter Henry van de Velde wanted in 1895. Inspired by the Arts and Crafts philosophies of William Morris, Van de Velde, together with his wife Maria Sèthe, devised the whole environment of their home Villa Bloemenwerf. The cutlery, the wallpaper, the carpets, the chairs. They designed it all.

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Dal Chodha

During the height of the sales season at Paris Fashion Week, Anati Rakocz, a founding partner at luxury outdoor brand Templa, grows suspicious of the words used in the showroom. She questions the common practice of saying ‘product’ when describing a rigorously engineered piece of performance apparel that has taken years to develop. Decades of know-how. The shorthand of ‘sustainable’, ‘organic’ or ‘circular’ to defend the manufacturing of new things.

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Dal Chodha

With just 70 lean mannequins, one brief CNN news report and two xeroxed press releases, curator Olivier Saillard gets to the heart of something fashion has forgotten: it’s about clothes. ‘You can make images of course, but, first, you make clothes,’ he says. His show at the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa in Paris, where he has been director since 2018, focuses on the kinship between two of the most potent talents of the 20th century: Azzedine Alaïa and Thierry Mugler.

2 months ago | wallpaper.com | Dal Chodha |Sophie Gladstone

A holey sweater artfully made using sabotaged knitting machines. Protective bulges layered on to a woman’s body. The soft scents of cardamom, musk and rose emerging from a concrete container in a fine mist. Perfumes introduced as ‘odeurs’ that are not Pour Homme or Pour Femme. A big sexy global department store named after a Mayfair street. Boutiques that pop up and vanish. Japanese fashion house Comme des Garçons is part dazzling exactitude, part sucker punch.

Nov 10, 2024 | wallpaper.com | Dal Chodha

A polished sterling silver necklace made up of the repeated word ‘MUM’ sits under a glass box at Modemuseum Hasselt in Belgium. Taken from Phoebe Philo’s eponymous debut exactly one year ago, the object’s place in ‘M&OTHERS’ – an exhibition that explores fashion through the rarely examined viewpoint of mother figures in all their forms – is symbolic of Philo’s influence beyond defining the look of the 2000s.