In pictures: Intimate encounters with strangers in US suburbia

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Journeys have a way of shaping creativity. Sometimes they are literal, tracing miles across highways and anonymous city streets. Other times, they are internal, marked by dislocation, fear and the shifting ways we see ourselves in…

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Twinks, shrooms and Studio54: Maxwell Vice’s fashion week photo diary

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Welcome to the Fashion Week Photo Diary, a series where local photographers document the faces, places and parties surrounding their city’s catwalk shows. “I took shrooms at a very terrible runway show that I will not…

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Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Balenciaga debut was a total eclipse of the heart

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Pierpaolo Piccioli is collecting fashion houses like infinity stones. The Italian designer saw most of the 90s out at the Roman casa Fendi, before defecting to Valentino in 1999 to oversee the accessories department with Maria…

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Addison! Rihanna! Clairo! Miss Claire Sullivan is for main characters only

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Claire Sullivan used to be self-conscious about how loud and expressive she could be, but through her work on eponymous label Miss Claire Sullivan, she’s gotten over it. The former Vaquera designer, who bowed out of…

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