Category: Lifestyle & Culture

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Harry Styles has long been the poster boy of pop. Songs like “As It Was” and “Watermelon Sugar” were some of the most ubiquitous releases of the 21st century, but ever since his gargantuan Love on…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “I’m all about my passions, music, money and fashion,” EsDeeKid raps in the viral song “Phantom”, lifted off his breakthrough album Rebel last year. Well, he ticked at least two of these off the list at…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In a corner of Paris’ Jardin des Tuileries you will discover the Musée de l’Orangerie, home to one of Monet’s most famous works, Water Lilies. The painting consists of eight panels that are each two metres…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. We all want love. We long for it, we pine, we ache, we’re consumed by our desire for it. It’s a drive that has always been inherent to the human condition, though recently yearning has become…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. I’m convinced that Lil Uzi Vert is an alien – an alien sent from a sci-fi future to drive rap’s evolution forward. And I’m not the only one who thinks so. The chronically online elders among…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. For the casual observer, fakemink might look like an overnight success: from niche internet celebrity to major festival slots, famous fans (including Drake, Frank Ocean and Timothée Chalamet) and walking Gucci’s AW26 show, all within the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. While last season in Milan was shaped by a whirlwind of creative director debuts, AW26 slowed things down with just a few big changes on the calendar. In perhaps the most long-awaited event this season, Denma…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This story is taken from the spring 2026 issue of Dazed, which is on sale internationally from March 5. Pre-order a copy of the magazine here. Oklou has dreamt up a universe of her own. The French…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In the last few pages of Larry Sultan’s posthumously published book Water Over Thunder: Select Writings, an excerpt from his archive reveals how the celebrated photographer harboured a desire to be a writer. “I’ve actually thought…