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. From Marina Mónaco’s portraits of impulsive lovers across Europe to Lin Zhipeng (aka No.223)’s sensual, lust-filled photographs of flowers and flesh, and Masahisa Fukase’s lovelorn, obsessive pictures of his wife Yoko, here is just a small…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. It goes without saying that tech is advancing at an exponential rate. Every industry is implementing new ways to keep up with it, and fashion is no exception. Always ahead of the curve, for the past…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Escentric Molecules has built a cult following by doing something deceptively simple: creating fragrances that are not just something you wear but something that becomes a part of you. Since Molecule 01 was launched, 20 years…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Though New York Fashion Week hasn’t even officially begun, one of the week’s most compelling shows has already taken place. The Twink Next Door, however, the designer behind the show in question, never pictured himself ending…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. New York Fashion Week kicks off this week, and I’m not sure anyone around me knows how to feel about it. Luxury fashion has always existed in juxtaposition with inequality and political unrest. When a show…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “Sex is so visible it’s almost banal,” Megan Wallace said when they launched the first issue of Pulp Zine, describing what they called a “post-sex positivity” moment. A year on, this saturation has only shifted. “Many…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based photographer Miranda Barnes has spent time immersed in different communities, cultures and subcultures across America, from church congregations and cheerleading teams, to rodeos and much more. In 2021, she began focusing her…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. It’s a grey Wednesday morning at Milano Centrale station, and a bright orange train is piercing straight through the monochrome blur of the city’s well-heeled rush-hour crowds. It is the All Conditions Express: a full heritage…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. On social media, you can drive engagement if you post your mum and she’s considered a MILF. There’s an entire content category that exists purely for the purpose of praising mothers who look like they “could…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. When Team USA step onto the podium at the Winter Olympic Games in Milan this month, they’ll be showcasing one of the newest innovations in sportswear: Nike’s Therma-FIT Air Milano Jacket. Looking appropriately space-age, the “adaptive…