Scarlet: Anime legend Mamoru Hosoda’s trippy new take on Hamlet

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. 2D or not 2D, that is the question. In his early career, Mamoru Hosoda won over audiences with films like <a href="/film-tv/article/55250/1/inside-the-fantastical-world-of-anime-pioneer-mamoru-hosada-belle-mirai"hellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery (12 images)nbsp; Source: www.dazeddigital.com — original article published 2026-03-18 15:36:00….

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Which fashion designer would you pass the aux to?

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. There’s a lot to unpack from the AW26 fashion season. Across New York, London, Milan and Paris we saw werewolves, ice skaters, <ahellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery (10 images)nbsp; Source: www.dazeddigital.com — original article published…

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Have we reached peak runfluencer?

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The small crack in a running influencer’s foot was declared by my FYP page with the importance of a new political bill: Mary McCarthy has a stress fracture. What does this mean for you?  My algorithm…

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Brianna Capozzi on her distinct eroticism with a ‘bizarre twist’

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Brianna Capozzi has sent me a list of what fascinates her as an artist. It reads, “New Yorkers, the East coast, the West coast, animations, blondes, things that shine, the colour pink, strong muscles, good hair,…

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This brightly coloured art anthology is ending the age of beige

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. These days, colour feels decidedly out. Last December, Pantone announced that Cloud Dancer, a shade of off-white, would be its 2026 colour of the year, prompting headlines like “You read that white”. Before that, minimalist design…

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A’ja Wilson wants to win everything

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. You know you’ve got a successful commercial on your hands when people are making whole TikTok videos about how great it is (not to mention the New York Times calling it “the best TV commercial of the…

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These portraits interrogate the power of celebrity in America

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. America is flawed – that’s no secret. Yet, what photographer Dana Lixenberg’s candid body of work reveals is that we cannot fully distance ourselves from its complexities. The contradictions and truths we treat as new revelations…

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