Dazed Mix: Claire Rousay

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. With the summer months coming to an end, this month’s mix is brought to you by Texan experimentalist Claire Rousay, whose melancholic, folk-inflected mix is inspired by her past lives – “it’s a bit of an…

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Watch: Steve Lacy on shitposting, style icons, and ‘break-up psychosis’

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “I be looking bored but I be excited about shit,” says Steve Lacy in a new video, shot between takes of his cover shoot for Dazed’s autumn 2025 issue. And, in case you haven’t read his…

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Did you hear? Masculina got caught in her fishnets at fashion week

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Fashion week is as much about trading gossip as it is editors, writers, influencers, and celebrities laying eyes on and critiquing the latest collections. Secrets are whispered with wild abandon on the front row as guests…

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These are the only looks you need to see from the 2025 MTV VMAs

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. While the VMAs has essentially become a starter event for newly hatched influencers to walk their first carpet, MTV often invites some actually famous people, which is nice. Though there weren’t tonnes of standout red carpet…

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Babes with Blades wants to shape the future of action films

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. London-based best friends, stuntwoman Ayesha Hussain and director Jade Ang Jackman, first met via Instagram. Jackman had been a fan of Hussain’s from afar and so slid into her DMs – not to flirt, she clarifies,…

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Get your skates on! Flipper’s is coming for the fashion industry

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In 1979, Ian ‘Flipper’ Ross opened a roller skating paradise in the heart of Los Angeles. Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace was the purple and blue-painted hotspot for California’s youth, including famous faces like Elton John, Nile…

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