Category: Lifestyle & Culture

For a teenager, a bedroom is a sanctuary – a place to experiment, to try on different identities until one finally fits. It was this idea of a self-contained world that inspired Adrienne Salinger’s Teenagers in Their Bedrooms, first published in 1995 as In My Room and shot in the late 80s and early 90s….

One of Netflix’s most-watched series of all time, Tim Burton’s Wednesday has finally returned for its highly anticipated season two. Along with new cast members including Lady Gaga, Billy Piper and Joanna Lumley, the show’s second season has also delivered a heavy helping of fashion moments courtesy of Jenna Ortega’s stylist, Enriquehellip; read more raquo;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View…

According to a new report, more students in England than ever are taking on paid work during term-time, and many are being forced to work over 20 hours a week just to make ends meet. Not only do students have less time to study as a result of these economic pressures, they are socialising less,…

​​Welcome to the Archive Pull, a series delving into the 30-year history of our print magazine. Here, we look back at an interview with Hussein Chalayan ahead of his first major British exhibition at the Design Museum, originally published in the February 2009 issue of Dazed amp; Confused. Hussein Chalayan is the pied piper of…

It’s been a busy few months for Spanish rapper Bb Trickz. In April, she dropped her latest album 80’z, and then she became the face of ICECREAM (an extension of Pharrell and Nigo’s

Summer is my favorite season. It’s when I’m happiest, feel my greatest, and the only time of year that makes the thrill of a fast-paced life worth it. Maybe it’s because I’m from Los Angeles and my happiness depends on warm weather, but the transition from spring to summer really does something to me, and…

What makes a ‘happy victim’, as defined by Japanese photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki in his 2008 photo book of the same name, comes down to a singular obsession. “[They] love clothes so much that they’ve trimmed the three necessities of human life – food, clothing, and shelter – down to just one,” he wrote at the time, “and then…

Medieval LARPing is levelling up, with the Middle Ages becoming the go-to playbook for tattoo designs. Think weathered brick castles, crumbling torrents and battle-scarred dragons. As a pushback against hyper-online cultures, tattoos are shifting towards a medieval aesthetic, reimagining iconography and lettering for a new age. This reworking of medieval imagery is what scholars call…

In the UK, festival fashion has taken a new turn in recent years. Gone are the wax jackets, mini dresses, glittered cheeks and fairy-like accessories. In 2025, festival style is all grown up. Basically, we’ve swapped cute for cunt, and at Maiden Voyage this weekend, some attendees even had the word spelt out across their…

In 1968, the ICA hosted an exhibition titled Cybernetic Serendipity, showcasing artists’ experiments with new technologies, including robots, algorithms, and computer graphics. “Bringing together composers, artists, filmmakers, engineers, scientists, and academics, the exhibition sparked a dialogue, spanning multiple continents, about the relationship between technology and the arts,” writes Ruth Mackenzie, director of arts at the…