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. Over a year ago, in January 2025, Canadian designer Paolina Russo and her co-creative director Lucile Guilmard attended Copenhagen Fashion Week as guests, rather than as a brand showing on schedule. While they were in town,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Last year, in partnership with BACARDÍ, we put out an open call for emerging UK photographers to capture intergenerational dance culture as it truly lives: on dancefloors, in community spaces, and within nightlife shaped by music,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Sunny Choi has already made history. In 2023, she won gold in breakdancing at the Pan American Games, the first time that a gold medal in breakdancing was ever awarded. Following that win, the dancer went…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In just a few hours, Team Haiti will step into the spotlight at the Winter Olympics’ Opening Ceremony in Milan. The designer behind their uniforms, Stella Jean, is praying that it doesn’t rain. “We don’t know…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Gird your loins: London Fashion Week is less than two weeks away. As well as all the usual suspects, AW26 will see the return of a few golden oldies. Joseph will show on schedule after nearly a…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. When Julia Jackman read Isabel Greenberg’s 2016 graphic novel The One Hundred Nights of Hero, she wasn’t aspiring to become a full-time filmmaker, let alone one whose adaptation of the book would premiere at Venice Film Festival and star Maika Monroe, Emma Corrin, Nicholas…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. My Father’s Shadow, a shimmering, cinematic celebration of Lagos, will be viewed by most people from a child’s perspective. Set on June 12, 1993, the day of Nigeria’s election crisis, Akinola Davies Jr’s semi-autobiographical movie is…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. I don’t think about food often. Apart from when I’m eating sweets, and remember an article I read about artificial sweeteners being possibly carcinogenic to humans; or when I’m in the supermarket buying anything to satiate…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Since its launch in 1966, The North Face has held a secure place at the intersection of practical design and street culture. Its iconic jackets made a seamless transition from mountain gear to urban wear, becoming…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. For SS26, Copenhagen-based brand Samsøe Samsøe has produced a campaign rooted in the familiar trappings of tourism; from maps and selfie sticks to the act of simply looking around. Titled Sightseeing, the images play with the…