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. Last month, we saw the first trailer for the highly anticipated The Devil Wears Prada 2, but what should’ve been a moment of collective excitement quickly turned into a moment of collective rage. “I’m no fashion…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Though modelling is an inherently aesthetic practice, multidisciplinary brand EBiT (Enjoy Being in Transition) has taken a more holistic approach to casting. For the brand’s latest project, a new website and e-commerce platform, it exclusively featured…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Fashion has a funny relationship with trends: we love to hate them. Trendsetters are our gods, and yet anyone who follows a trend is deemed to have no personal style. When a certain style starts trending,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Photographers have long been fascinated with the darker side of sexuality – from Robert Mapplethorpe to Catherine Opie to Bob Carlos Clarke, kink and fetish are part of the artistic canon. But if previously photographing BDSM…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. A couple of hours outside Berlin, near Cologne, there’s a farm where 35 gay sheep live in quiet, improbable peace. It reads like the opening line of a queer fairytale, and in some ways, it is….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Throughout this year, young creatives from around the world have been getting involved with Formula One like never before, stepping into the paddock and seeing the sport from a completely new angle. VCARB’s Creator Platform has…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. An age-old debate around tattoo culture centres on how ink will look as we age. Online, it’s common to see speculation about what today’s tattoos might become: cybersigil backpieces that will bleed out, delicate fine-line scripts…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In Animalia, a pregnant woman, Itto (Oumaïma Barid), is fleeing what appears to be an alien invasion. There aren’t any green Martians or flying spaceships. Instead, a cluster of thunderstorm clouds forms ominous, green-tinged shapes that encroach…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Five months ago, 24-year-old Cate* got out of a relationship with someone who was, on several accounts, very different from her. Though she and her ex-boyfriend shared some similarities, there were evident disparities, the most obvious…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “Tokyo is so often romanticised through the streets, the neon, the chaos, the energy – but we rarely see the rooms people go home to,” says photographer Alexandra Waespi. Her new project, The Interior Worlds of…