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. Bárbara Sánchez-Kane’s approach to creativity has always been holistic. Though she trained as a designer at Florence’s prestigious Polimoda school, her work has always skated between the boundaries of fashion and art, refusing to be boxed…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Wedding season is fast approaching and no one knows it better than Zendaya, Robert Pattinson and A24. Together, they make the perfect trio, and next month sees their film, The Drama, land in cinemas. Based around…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. On the day before their sold-out show at The Bowery Ballroom, I met the band WHATMORE at a rehearsal space in South Brooklyn. The band’s members, Cisco Swank, Elijah Judah, Jacksonhellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In recent years, as algorithms have ‘flattened’ culture in favour of mass appeal, many of us have been attempting to fight back against the rising tide of homogeneity by cultivating our own personal taste. As Dazed’s…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Alexander Elkholm is the only queer artist I’m aware of whose practice is shaped by karate. “I did it for ten years as a child. It’s a very controlled form of movement, and it’s all about…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. When Luigi Mangione shot the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in December 2024, the cast and crew of Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire were a month away from principal photography. Asked about it now, Bill Skarsgård, the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The concept of fluidity underscores several aspects of the artist and photographer Dev Dhunsi’s new photo book, Mixed. Published by MACK and Self Publish Be Happy (SPBH), the book is a meditation on what identity could…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The blow hit hard. It was incomprehensible, yet entirely predictable. In December 2024, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro accused Caracas four-piece Rawayana of a “humiliating outburst against Venezuelan women.” The psych-tropical pop band, until then an explosion…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Paris Fashion Week AW26 was the unofficial season of the sophomore. Last September, an inordinate number of designers made their debuts across numerous different brands, which resulted in an historic PFW for everyone involved. It makes…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. What do you wear when the day starts outside but ends around the table with friends? Merrell’s 1TRL’s newest Moab Slide Woven might have the answer. The outdoor footwear brand’s latest iteration of the Moab line…