Inside Johnnie Walker’s Sabrina Carpenter-inspired Grammys weekend

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Though awards shows are exciting in their own right, it’s the parties (and after-parties) surrounding them that bring the actual fun. After all, it’s after nightfall that people share their hot takes, make predictions about the…

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XG: The Japanese ‘X-pop’ group who want to change history

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. XG have always resisted definition. Be it through their genre-blending mix of pulsing EDM, seductive Ramp;B and mesmeric house beats or their sci-fi coded visuals, the Japanese septet – composed of Jurin, Chisa, Hinata, Harvey, Juria,…

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How Bad Bunny became a political icon

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. After his first reggaetón track went viral on SoundCloud in 2016, Bad Bunny left his job as a supermarket bagger and stepped into public view. With eccentric haircuts, painted nails, skirts, and fluorescent glasses, he disrupted…

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Dave channels ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ in Wales Bonner’s new campaign

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. You might think that Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and UK rapper Dave don’t have lots in common – but that’s where Grace Wales Bonner comes in. The fashion designer has tapped him for…

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Kristen Stewart: ‘Women often operate from a place of shame’

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Insouciant, fast-talking and tired-eyed after a late night at last May’s Cannes Film Festival, actress Kristen Stewart was passionate in her discussion of long-gestating passion project The Chronology of Water. Based on writer and former champion…

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