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. Alessandro Michele delivered his latest Valentino couture collection today (January 28) in the French capital, less than 10 days since the death of the brand’s founder, Valentino Garavani, who died surrounded by family last Monday (January…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. From Brit funk to jungle, trip hop to UK garage, Black music has played a defining role in modern British culture – and, by extension, modern British life – so it seems appropriate that Vamp;A East’s very first…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. London’s nightlife crisis is no secret. Last year, the Nighttime Industries Association predicted that, if venue closures continue at the current rate, then there will be no major clubs left in the entire UK by 2030….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. If you thought lemonade was strictly a warm weather beverage, think again. This week, spirits brand Jim Beam hosted an exclusive party in New York City, and officially made the case for enjoying the summertime favourite…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Though the January shows will always play little brother to February’s womenswear schedule, this AW26 season proved menswear still has its bite. Just look at Jonathan Anderson’s sophomore Dior show, where Paul Poiret references were married…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In the days leading up to Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel couture debut, the designer shared teasers on social media, showing animated woodland creatures working in the atelier. While Disney princesses have their clothes made by mice, chipmunks…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Swiss performance brand On has built its reputation by challenging the conventions of sportswear. Founded in 2010, the brand set out to change how running feels through a focus on innovation, design and technology, and has…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. 2026 is now in full swing, but the internet only seems to care about one thing: 2016. Right now, my Instagram feed is full of people sharing 2016 Rio-filtered throwback selfies, screenshots of Stranger Things’ first…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. I’m doing my nightly scroll on TikTok one Tuesday when I discover a phrase I’ve never heard before, but feels distinctly familiar: relationship OCD (ROCD). Soon – as is so often the case on TikTok –…

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 say this often, but it’s a tough time to be a billionaire’s daughter. Well, maybe just one specific billionaire’s daughter. It might be reductive to say that Nicola Peltz is having an in-law issue…