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. The clocks have changed, the evenings are getting longer, and we’ve made it through another bleak British winter. We’re a quarter of the way through 2026, and already, we’ve seen hundreds of fashion collabs flood our…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Last year, Burna Boy was announced as a brand new ambassador for On. In December, the brand and musician came together to host a dinner in Lagos, celebrating the partnership and Burna Boy’s community. Now, a…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Something strange happened while Salvador Navarrete (AKA Sega Bodega) and Mayah Alkhateri – partners both in life and in music – were making Kiss Facility’s debut album, Khazna. Galway-born Navarrete doesn’t speak a word of Arabic,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Some of the most impactful albums of all time have been completed in short timeframes. The Cure’s Seventeen Seconds was written in a single night. Led Zeppelin’s debut album was recorded in 36 hours, and Jack…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Earlier this month, Troye Sivan hosted an intimate evening of food, wine and music during Paris Fashion Week in collaboration with Penfolds. Taking place at Quartier Général, a local hotspot in the 11th arrondissement, the global…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Picking up their new book, your first question for photographers Scarlett Carlos Clarke and Nadia Lee Cohen might be: what the hell does Podunk mean? It was mine before interviewing them and, in preparation, I armed…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The opening shot from Whispers Against My Neck shows a blonde, pony-tailed girl with a bright-orange butterfly perched on her finger, as people in the background fire off shotguns into the distance. It’s this image that…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Lisalisa Manobal has had quite the fashion transformation. When you look back at old photos of BLACKPINK from 2016, Lisa, Jennie, Jisoo and Rosé are all in colour-blocked skater skirts and matching pussy bow blouses, a…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Georgi Unkovski knew early on that his debut feature would include sheep at an illegal rave on a rural farm in Macedonia. “It’s the core idea of the film,” the 36-year-old Macedonian director tells me over…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. POV: you’re watching the latest Triple-A action film. The protagonist is a morally dubious white man but no one questions it because he sounds cool. There’ll be epic car chases, hot ladies and cameos from Elton…