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. In an age where music is often filtered, optimised, and enshittified, Unsound remains one of the few festivals committed to probing the tangled threads of contemporary culture. Its 2025 discourse programme, WEB, explores these sticky intersections…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. From Dior’s 2023 show at the Great Pyramids of Giza to Chanel’s 2016 resort show on the streets of Havana, Cuba, fashion brands have, over the years, travelled to far-flung locales to debut their new collections….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. On a late June evening, on what was only their second date, photographer and art director Maximilian Kilworth brought his camera. Nathan, his soon-to-be boyfriend, brought his too. Neither of them knew it then, but that…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. As the days get shorter and wardrobes start trading sandals for something warmer, Crocs™ has found a way to stay in rotation all year round. To see if their latest creation could really take on the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. To some, being authentic and having an online presence may sound like paradoxical concepts. Those who have found success on the internet, however, know that showing up as your true, unfiltered self is often one of…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Earlier this year, Raven Row Gallery presented Eyes Open in the Dark, a haunting retrospective of the work of Peter Hujar. The American photographer, who was a central figure in New York’s downtown scene in the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Billed as London’s answer to the Met Gala, the British Museum hosted its first ever fundraising ball on Saturday night (October 18). The theme was tied to the museum’s current exhibition Ancient India: living traditions and…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Last week, Instagram announced its 2025 Rings winners, a new award that celebrates creators’ commitment to pushing creative boundaries and sharing content that’s true to themselves. The 25 winners, including Gabriel Moses, Golloria,hellip; read more raquo;…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. It’s been 400 years since Shakespeare wrote “hell is empty and all the devils are here”, but it’s a quote that feels relevant to 2025, as we slip further towards dystopia. So far, it’s been a…

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 3.5 per cent rule, proposed by political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan, that suggests all nonviolent movements that had the support of at least that percentage of the population always succeeded in triggering…