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. On any given night in Berlin, the city is alive and thumping as basslines dribble out of basement venues and side street winebars. Last week, on October 9, it was no exception, as some 300 guests…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The rumours are true: Maria Grazia Chiuri is taking over as creative director of Fendi. The news comes two weeks after its former creative director Silvia Venturini Fendi – a third-generation designer of the Fendi family…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Kim Kardashian has jumped on the full bush agenda. Today (October 14), her brand Skims launched a range of underwear in a series of nude skin colours with elastic side straps and various types of hair…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This article was originally published on January 28, 2020 Even if you don’t recognise the ‘Soulquarians’ name, you’ll almost certainly be familiar with the people involved: D’Angelo, Questlove, and J Dilla were all founding members of the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “Sparkly and excessive” is the cheatcode of a bodybuilder according to contestant and trainer Neca. With crystal-covered heels, stacked bracelets and layers of tan on glistening muscular bodies, the goal is simple: “We have to shine…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Paradigm Shift is a new 180 Studios exhibition that turns the moving image into an immersive landscape of style, sound and identity. The show brings together a coterie of visionary names, including Andy Warhol, Nan Goldin,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Prague, April 2025. A red moon hovers over the Gothic architecture of the city. A throng of people are gathering at ROXY, a legendary venue in the city. Inside the space, deafening black industrial reverberations colour…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Lately, I’ve been having this recurring nightmare that I have just turned 25, and everyone around me is suddenly getting married or having babies. My parents are now hounding me, in ways I’ve never experienced before,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Another year, another iteration of Frieze London. It’s the UK’s most significant artworld annual event, where galleries, collectors, artists and arts professionals converge around the proverbial watering hole of the Regent’s Park marquee. En masse, the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This article was originally published 30 November 2022 “You know sometimes I come down here and just wait. I mean, just especially,” Liza Minelli as Sally Bowls says, immediately after screaming her heart out to the…