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. All Jawara Wauchope needs is one good look at your hair to get a sense of who you are. “Hair is such a close reflection of yourself. It’s the most intimate thing; more than clothes, more…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Shortly after Maison Margiela announced Miley Cyrus as its first-ever celebrity face in 37 years, Kim Kardashian floated through the streets of Venice wearing a draped grey creation from Glenn Martens debut couture collection. For a…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Lady Gaga is no stranger to wearing graduate collections. In 2014, she purchased the entire final collection of Wilson PK, the Hong Kong designer who graduated from Central Saint Martins. She’s turned to Polimoda graduate Samuel…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. If you don’t know him as Blood Orange, you might know him as Devonté or Dev Hynes. You might know him as Lightspeed Champion, one member of Test Icicles, or even by his birth name, David….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. When filmmakers claim to be inspired by the Safdie brothers, they’re really talking about Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the Belgian sibling duo who had already pioneered a certain type of social realism: they cast non-professional actors,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Kate Solomon was eating dinner with a couple of friends in her flat when the man came bursting in, desperately asking her to call an ambulance. An indie popstar had been critically injured in the flat…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. It doesn’t always start with a botched job. Sometimes it’s a perfectly ordinary tweakment that quietly spawns a second appointment, then a third; sometimes it’s a post-laser flare-up that needs calming; other times, tear-trough filler that…

“When I was a struggling filmmaker, I grew up with the biggest comedians in the world,” says Darren Aronofsky, referring to his time in the 90s living in New York. “There was this night on Ludlow Street where you’d get Louis CK, Marc Maron, Chris Rock and Sarah Silverman performing for 20 or 30 people.”…

It’s a sticky summer’s evening in Peckham, and Folk of the Round Table is just about to begin. The weekly music night, which has been going on since 2018, is open to all to come down and sing folk around the circle. The crowd is overwhelmingly young. Folk has arguably not been this visible and…

I’ve been living with my parents for the last year, and though on paper that reality may sound diabolically bad (as much for them as for me) it’s actually been surprisingly chill. Ways that it’s similar to house-shares I’ve been in previously: I get on well with the people I live with, I cook for…