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. From John Lennon and Paul McCartney to Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, history has no shortage of iconic creative collaborations. Oftentimes, the work that’s produced by a pair of collaborators is distinct from, or at times…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The year is 2017, and Timothée Chalamet has just made love to a soft, fleshy fruit on camera. The infamous “peach scene” from Call Me By Your Name needs no more introduction than that, having secured…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. While the 2026 World Cup is still months away, soccer fans in America and Canada now have an earlier reason to celebrate. Italian sports brand Lotto recently announced a new licensing partnership with Pure Cotton Global…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. That street style, eh? That street style, it just won’t go away. It might hibernate from time to time, and sink back into the swamp. I think the cyclical nature of fashion in which it exists…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Last week, London’s iconic boutique magCulture had a queue stretching down the road for the Dazed Winter 2025 mag drop – over 200 Dazed Clubbers came down to grab a copy of the Shadow issue, sip…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. For the seventh edition of Pictures for Purpose, the foundation is collaborating with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to raise essential funds for displaced people in Sudan through a photography print sale.  In 2023,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Marty Supreme has taken over our lives before anyone has even seen it. At a London pop-up over the weekend, chaos ensued as hordes of people attempted to get their hands on the movie merch, knocking…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. A post on X asking for perfume recommendations to “smell like a French whore” recently went viral, garnering 50,000 likes and a flood of replies suggesting perfumes heavy with animalic notes and overpowering florals. While provocative,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. For years, Reddit felt like the dark alley of the internet. A place where tech bros, incels and unmoderated chaos thrived. Certainly not the digital hangout for the women I knew. But something’s changed. At a…