Girls: The exhibition exploring girlhood, boredom and rebellion

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Communion dresses, colourful hair accessories and glittery fairy wands… just some of the familiar archetypes that serve as visual markers of girlhood. The way we shape and, ultimately, recollect our adolescence is often inextricably linked to…

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Patricia Lockwood’s new novel details her descent into post-Covid delirium

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “A book especially tried to force you to see things, try to breed you, in short, like a sunflower,” Patricia Lockwood writes. Her new autofictional novel — following her memoir Priestdaddy and 2021 Booker Prize shortlisted…

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Silvia Venturini Fendi is stepping down as Fendi creative director

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. It wouldn’t be fashion week without at least one creative director announcement, so naturally within the space of 48 hours, there’s been two. Yesterday (September 27), Sunnei creative directors Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo bid farewell…

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This photo book documents a decade of east London’s febrile street life

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. At first glance, the premise for Gareth McConnell’s newly published photography book, Window, is fairly straightforward. As the title suggests, the Belfast-born, London-based photographer pointed a camera outside the window of his east London flat hundreds…

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