Sophie Gladstone

United Kingdom

Photography Editor at Wallpaper* Magazine

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Comme des Garçons perfumes are not ‘beautiful’

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.
‘There is more work to be done in the garden’: Dries Van Noten on deciding to grow his burgeoning beauty line

Nov 17, 2024 | wallpaper.com | Hannah Tindle |Sophie Gladstone

For Dries Van Noten, 2024 has been a year to remember. In March, the Belgian designer announced his imminent retirement from fashion. Having risen to prominence during the 1980s as part of the Antwerp Six (a collective of graduates from the city’s Royal Academy, including Walter Van Beirendonck and Ann Demeulemeester), almost four decades on, he took his final bow on a runway, shimmering with silver leaf, during June’s S/S 2025 menswear shows in Paris.
Why solid soap is the most pleasurable object to bathe with

Sep 2, 2024 | wallpaper.com | Hannah Tindle |Sophie Gladstone

Hygiene is considered to be something of a modern preoccupation, but there is evidence that soap was invented by ancient civilisations nearly 5,000 years ago. Archaeologists unearthed traces of it in Babylonian clay artefacts, which were also inscribed with recipes for soap-making. In Aleppo, olive oil, laurel berry oil and lye were melted down, then cooled underground to form a vast, avocado-green sheet, a process that remains largely unchanged today.
‘Who has not dreamed of seeing what the eye cannot grasp?’: Rencontres d’Arles comes to the south of France

Jul 16, 2024 | wallpaper.com | Sophie Gladstone

‘Beneath The Surface’ is how Les Rencontres d’Arles, the annual photography festival in the south of France, has defined 2024's impressive curation of over 40 exhibitions, presenting nearly 200 artists. Sprawled throughout the city of Arles’ charming streets (and a collection of satellite shows across the region), works are exhibited in myriad unexpected contexts, from 12th-century chapels and cloisters to the upper floor of a Monoprix supermarket.
Contemporary photographers making great leaps are united in London show

Dec 7, 2023 | wallpaper.com | Sophie Gladstone

‘From a Common Gesture’ at London’s 10 14 Gallery (8 December 2023 – 26 January 2024) brings together 11 contemporary photographers working at the forefront of their field. Also featured in the January 2024 issue of Wallpaper*, now on sale, the exhibition is curated by Wallpaper* and was realised together with the gallery and Nirvana CPH.
Paris Photo 2023: Eva Nielsen puts our impact on the Camargue in dynamic focus

Nov 8, 2023 | wallpaper.com | Sophie Gladstone

Curator Marianne Derrien recalls exploring the Camargue years ago and having the instinct that the changing landscape would lead to a collaboration with her long-time friend, the artist Eva Nielsen. What would come to fruition is ‘Insolare’ – now showing at Paris Photo 2023, 9-12 November – a dynamic exploration of our impact on the landscape through a hybridised approach, creating an emotive reflection on the disappearance of urban, industrial and natural landscapes.
Breaking baguette: Fendi’s new bag is a playful take on the French loaf

Oct 19, 2023 | wallpaper.com | Jack Moss |Sophie Gladstone

In 1997, Silvia Venturini Fendi introduced the Fendi ‘Baguette’ handbag, a miniature shoulder bag named for the way it nestles under the arm – as one might carry the French loaf after an early morning trip to the boulangerie. 25 years on, as part of the designer’s A/W 2023 menswear collection for the Italian house, Venturini Fendi playfully revisited the handbag’s inspirations, with models carrying a gleefully surreal accessory: a French baguette, albeit here rendered in luxurious shearling.
The big sleep: a photography book captures subjects in slumber

Sep 25, 2023 | wallpaper.com | Sophie Gladstone

Of her debut photography book, Like Someone Alive, published with Art Paper Editions, Dorothy Sing Zhang explains her unusual process: ‘I set the scene in the bedrooms of others. One is asked to be asleep, a squeeze cable release is placed under the pillow.
‘These Americans’: Will Vogt documents the USA’s rich at play

Aug 7, 2023 | wallpaper.com | Sophie Gladstone

Wallpaper* NewsletterReceive our daily digest of inspiration, escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inboxThank you for signing up to Wallpaper. You will receive a verification email shortly. There was a problem. Please refresh the page and try again. Existing dually as a historical document and an artwork, new photography book These Americans by Will Vogt is an escape into the delirious excesses of the USA’s upper class, between 1969 and 1996.
Luis Alberto Rodriguez’s dynamic nudes explore power and purity in new photo book

Jul 15, 2023 | wallpaper.com | Sophie Gladstone

Artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez already had a successful creative career before turning to photography – as a Juilliard-trained dancer, he performed worldwide for 15 years. The choreographic approach of a dancer remains as he’s evolved towards image-making, particularly present in his new photography book O, an exploration of power and an idea of purity, published with Loose Joints.