Surrealism at the Polish Film School

All this week we’re looking back at our judges’ favourite images from the CR Photography Annual 2014. Here, Wallpaper*’s Sarah Douglas explains why she loved a surreal series by Paweł Fabjański

Natural Scientist: CR meets Iris van Herpen

Iris van Herpen’s extraordinary clothes marry the exploration of new materials and technologies with traditional craft and a fascination with the natural world. Patrick Burgoyne meets the designer and her creative collaborator Jerry Stafford at van Herpen’s atelier in Amsterdam

SHOWstudio: reinventing fashion

When the fashion website SHOWstudio started in 2000, there was no Twitter, no Facebook, no Instagram, no YouTube, none of the online channels that we take for granted today. The digital world was glitchy and grainy , rough and ready. At launch, the site was greeted with a mix of  excitement, curiosity and bemusement, with some dismissing it – and the internet in general – as “not really fashion”. Yet its influence has since stretched across the industry,  changing working practices both online and off. Here, Eliza Williams talks to founder Nick Knight about documenting fashion as it moved from analogue to digital, and what the future might hold.

Google unveils new logo

Google has a new logo: it’s cleaner, rounder and, according to the company, reflects the different ways that people now interact with its many different services

Storyteller: Hussein Chalayan

There are many ways to tell a story – with words, in film, photographs. Hussein Chalayan’s chosen medium is fashion. Patrick Burgoyne meets the designer as he prepares to open his first London store while, in an exclusive shoot for CR, photographer Ryan Hopkinson, set designer Hana Al Sayed and art director Gemma Fletcher explore Chalayan’s influences and creative process

Celebrity influencers in fashion: a handy A–Z

When it comes to fashion, there’s no denying the influence of celebrities. But who wields the power this year? Nina Tsang and Sarah Mawson of talent engagement resource Celebrity Intelligence identify the faces to watch on the front rows and beyond for 2015

Watch this space

We Are Pop Up is a person-to-person marketplace that offers an alternative to commercial property agents, where users can list, browse and book pop-up spaces across Europe. CEO and founder Nicholas Russell and director of projects and partnerships Abigail Freeman tell Antonia Wilson how everyone from big brands to start-up fashion businesses are joining the cult of temporary space

The Blank Video Project, or do YouTube views really add up?

Do YouTube views matter? For many they are a barometer of a film’s success on the channel, a simple way of counting how many people have engaged with a piece of work. Yet there is increasing debate about how accurate a marker a ‘view’ actually is. So Minneapolis-based creative shop Solve decided to put the metrics to the test, by seeing if they could make a four minute-long blank video go viral…

Peddling influence

The rise of the fashion blogger has allowed new voices to emerge among the industry’s elite. But with Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook awash with such fashion ‘influencers’, a new, more niche approach is proving more effective for brands and bloggers alike, says Sarah Penny

Vote for your favourites on the h.Club 100 shortlist

The shortlists have been announced for this year’s h.Club 100, the annual list of the great and good in the creative world. Now it’s your chance to vote for those who you think should be honoured for their contribution

Knyttan

The knitwear brand on the joy of bespoke fashion, and creating unique designs knitted on demand and delivered the next day to shoppers

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