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. Bangalter dropped tracks from the Chemical Brothers, Jonny Greenwood, and his own former duo at Paris’ Centre Pompidou Source: pitchfork.com — original article published 2025-10-26 21:39:01. Read the full story on pitchfork.com → [source_url]

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “In my world, what I’m into is having something really old, but also very sexy” – that’s how New York designer Shawna Wu describes the idea behind turning traditional Taiwanese carvings and Chinese knotting techniques into…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The internet can be an unpredictable place. Fads, trends, and inside jokes (67, anyone?) rise and fall with an impressive warp speed. The one thing you can always count on, however, is that, no matter what…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Kelly Reichardt is a filmmaker beloved for her patient, poetic pacing: the long, lazy road trip of Old Joy; the slow trots of Lily Gladstone and Kristen Stewart riding a horse in Certain Women; Michelle Williams…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “I was a kid when I realised racism wasn’t taken seriously,” Cambridge MC JayaHadADream tells Dazed. “I was at the BMX track and this girl shouted the N-word at me. My mum raised me to call…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. El Hardwick and Orion Isaacs are partners in life, as well as in creativity. Meeting during lockdown, Hardwick, a multi-disciplinary artist, and Isaacs, a film director-writer, initially established contact so they could collaborate creatively, before realising…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. No one knows Lutz Bacher’s real name, even to this day. Living and working between California and New York throughout her life, the artist adopted the masculine pseudonym early in her career and continued to use…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Morale Patch is an exhibition of new work by Tanoa Sasraku featuring process-driven works on paper, found objects, and sculpture. In this solo exhibition, Sasraku examines the seductive and destructive power of oil and its ties to…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Beauty is terror. The pursuit of beauty can be terrorising. Flesh pulled back and cut open, bodies constricted, poison injected, hair burnt, skin bleached. Our biggest insecurities magnified, our natural bodies sold back to us for…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “One hundred metres, I just put nine gyal in a sprinter,” Dave raps in 2023 single “Sprinter”, now by far the most successful UK rap track of all time. The song is predicated on excess, with…