Category: Lifestyle & Culture

Egregore Festival, Casablanca, 202521 Images In 1985, Morocco-born, Lyon-raised rapper Shams Dinn moved to Paris in order to pursue a career in music. Performing at a time when hip-hip in anything other than an American accent was practically unthinkable to most audiences, Shams Dinn’s Arabic lyrics immediately stood out. His 1987 single “Hedi Bled Noum”…

If you go for a walk in London in 2025, there are certain things you’re guaranteed to see. A blueberry matcha latte, a pair of Onituska Tigers, a studio flat the size of a kitchen table that costs £2,500 a month, a recently closed nightclub and a fake Labubu, to name a few. At some…

Fara Homidi – Soft Glass Lip Plumping Oil8 Images All the cool girls love Fara Homidi. Look inside any Balenciaga City Bag or Chloé Boho Paddington and you’ll be sure to find the brand’s signature sky blue lip compact or the shiny red of the concealer, most likely with the companion make-up brush not far…

Now entering its 59th year of existence, Notting Hill Carnival is known for a number of different cultural exchanges. There’s the music, of course, with huge soundsystems posted up on every street corner, blasting dancehall, reggae, soca and the like; there’s the Caribbean food, with lines of stalls offering the best roti, ackee and curry…

“It’s important to distinguish between beauty, and the notion of ‘pretty,’” says Stefano Rabolli Pansera, the founder and director of St Moritz Art Film Festival. We’re talking in the Swiss town’s Scala cinema: outside, the mountains are dappled with sunlight and the lake water is a clear, bright blue. This is very pretty stuff. In…

In recent years, MDMA had begun to feel like something of a relic. In the midst of the pandemic, dissociative (and ‘unsociable’) drugs – like ketamine and psychedelics – boomed in popularity, while with festivals and clubs temporarily shuttered, the use of party drugs like cocaine and ecstasy nosedived. Even after the lockdown era lifted,…

“It feels like nothing is holding me back now, finally,” says 24-year-old Kristen* from Ohio. A social worker in a children’s hospital, she’s recently been eyeing an upward career move. Earlier this year, she had a nose job to achieve that goal. “My insecurity was to the point that I would dread meeting people for…

In fan environments, there’s a familiar phrase that gets thrown around: “We made the right person famous.” Usually a testament to a pop star’s character, it’s often overused – and admittedly a little parasocial – but it’s the phrase that comes to mind as I lounge on a sofa in the record label’s office with…

I’m staring at a black-and-white body map for “subcutaneous injection sites” from a peptide clinic which, according to the word on the street, has just opened a “huge office in LA”. You won’t find the wellness clinic anywhere online; there’s only a random email to contact, and you have to be personally sent the multi-page…

Last week, Lil Nas X was arrested after allegedly charging at police officers in Los Angeles when they confronted him for walking naked down Ventura Boulevard. The rapper was arraigned today and formally charged with four felonies, and, per TMZ, he pleaded not guilty to the charges. Lil Nas X is being charged with with…