Much has changed since Wallpaper* first invited three vaunted individuals to guest-edit our October issue (that year, 2007, saw Hedi Slimane, Dieter Rams and Jeff Koons take up the challenge), not least the ease with which any creative can now communicate with a global audience – immediately, at pace, often on a whim. Yet our annual offer to three leading practitioners to organise their thoughts across our multiplicity of platforms remains a constant, driven by a mutually held curiosity around what develops, and a gnawing suspicion that hyper-personalised, algorithmically alert feeds aren’t the only way to convey a singular point of view. The interdisciplinary approach has paid dividends: by taking a different tack, each of this year’s editors has illuminated areas of their work, and life, in ways that are striking in their own right yet richly complement each other.
