Category: Lifestyle & Culture

The AmberSide Collection Print Sale13 Images Since it was founded by the Amber Collective in 1977, Newcastle’s Side has shone a spotlight on working-class photography from north west England and beyond. Its accompanying archive, the UNESCO-registered AmberSide Collection, spans over 20,000 photographs and 100 films by local icons and internationally-celebrated artists alike. No surprise, then,…

Back in January, I was setting my goals and resolutions for the year ahead. For almost a decade, I’d given myself annual targets: a certain number of books to read, films to watch, daily step count to hit. I tracked everything using apps on my phone: Goodreads for books, Letterboxd for films, Strava for runs,…

The Garden, Harley Weir28 Images The garden has always been a mythologised space, from the biblical Eden, to the imagined paradise of Arcadia, to the forbidden Garden of Hesperides. All of these spaces are charged with longing in the popular imagination, representing something perfect or utopian, just out of humanity’s grasp. Even in cities like…

2025 Aveda Hair Congress30 Images The 2025 Aveda Beauty Congress was an absolute feast for the eyes. Amidst the Midwest humidity, four days of over-the-top displays of hair innovation took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, bringing the hair industry’s brightest minds to inspire and educate global hair professionals across the US from August 16 to 19….

Community: John Novotny20 Images The Dazed Beauty Community is our ever-expanding encyclopaedia of creatives and emerging talent from across the world who are redefining the way we think about beauty. Discover them here. Ask hair artist John Novotny how they’d design humans in their own fantastical world, and you’re suddenly swimming with mermaid-fairy hybrids, flying with…

Shopping have broken up. The UK post-punk trio hadn’t put out an album since 2020’s All or Nothing, but confirmed the news on Instagram last week. “After 13 years, Shopping is taking our last spin through the aisles,” the band wrote in a post on Friday, August 15. Today, they’ve also shared the new song…

On Friday, August 22, Irish folk band the Mary Wallopers had their set at Portsmouth, England’s Victorious Festival cut short after flying the Palestinian flag onstage and leading a chant of “free Palestine.” Several artists, including the Last Dinner Party, subsequently pulled out of their scheduled performances in protest, and now Vampire Weekend, who are…

Julian Lynch is leaving Real Estate. “I’m so grateful to have been able to spend most of the last decade creating, performing, and traveling with my friends in the band,” the singer and guitarist wrote on Instagram. He will not join Real Estate on their upcoming “11 year and seven month anniversary tour” of their…

“We choose each other again and again,” says Vincent Wechselberger, the Berlin-based photographer, speaking on the bond between him and his sisters. It is a fondness he has been documenting for years, now gathered in his latest project, Sisters. Unlike the typical childhood snapshots of awkwardly posed siblings at birthdays or holidays, Wechselberger’s series traces…

For River Gallo beauty is all about honesty. “I feel most beautiful when I’m being truthful – when I’m wearing what I want to wear, moving how I want to move, speaking how I want to speak,” they tell me. But this alignment hasn’t always come easily for the filmmaker who identifies as intersex and…