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. Fruit Fly starts at a party – in Crouch End on a Friday night – starring a “wannabe Bloomsbury set” where people think “Virginia Woolf is just a total fucking mood.” The hosts are Mallory and…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “I’ve always been captivated by people who live on the margins, who refuse to fit into the boxes society tries to put them in,” says photographer Juliette Cassidy of 24 Hour Party, People, her new photography project…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The newest good-luck charm for young people in China? Kris Jenner. After catapulting her family into a billion-dollar empire, the “momager” has been making her way across digital platforms like Weibo, Xiaohongshu and Douyin, where users…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. 13.8 billion years ago, the Big Bang gave rise to the entire universe. Nothing had come close to the significance of this event, not until a 25-year-old Lena Dunham dropped her hit TV show Girls on…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. When it comes to summer fashion, what clothing immediately springs to mind? A floaty kaftan? Some cork wedges? A pair of barely-there budgie smugglers? It’s probably not a puffer jacket, but Moncler is here to change…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Back in 2015, a new song produced by SOPHIE and performed by Liz made its debut in, of all places, an advert for the Samsung Galaxy S6. It wasn’t a totally surprising direction for the producer – her…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “It all started with a long sick bed, quite soon after I graduated,” the fashion designer Yorick Westerkamp tells me. “At one point, I was physically unable to make work, while my mind kept generating ideas.”…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Gina Dirawi grew up surrounded by bowls of olive oil around the house, long before she understood its importance. Her grandmother, Fatima, would use it for everything, from cooking to moisturising her skin and hair. “I…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. It’s nothing new for artists to be labelled industry plants, but the recent allegations that Gen Z rock band Geese are a ‘psy-op’ feels different. Not only does the term imply a level of control more…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. I am supposed to be adding more friction into my life – at least that’s what the #frictionmaxxers tell me. Over the past few months, friction has become a hot topic. Frictionmaxxing, coined by Kathryn Jezer-Morton…