Sophie Gladstone

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | Sophie Gladstone

It’s often said that an image is worth a thousand words; the same can be said for souvenirs. They tether us to a moment, a place or a feeling, acting as a physical reminder of an experience or a connection. All too often, they are clichéd, inexpensive trinkets, hastily bought at an airport, train station or tourist trap, their significance woefully diminished by mass production (even if some, like those bearing Milton Glaser’s ‘I heart NY’ logo, do hold an undeniable charm).

Feb 10, 2025 | 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 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.

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.

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.