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 11 March 2021, a mysterious buyer who went by the pseudonym Metakovan made history with the purchase of a digital artwork, by the American artist Beeple, for $69.3 million. Many regarded the sale – which…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. As she set up camp inside her university building on the night of 14 November 2024, Ava* expected to wake up to a knock from campus security. What she had not anticipated was at least a…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Prosthetic artist and MUA Echo Seireeni has built a world of transformations that feels almost mythic. “I see make-up as a filter – a kind of protective mask between the model and the camera,” she says….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This October, Hurricane Melissa became the most powerful storm ever to hit Jamaica. It caused devastating floods and landslides across the island, damaged or destroyed over 100,000 homes, and killed at least 45 people. A month…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Valériane Venance may be one of the women reshaping fashion in 2025, but her brand is actually named in honour of a 300-year-old French courtesan. Émilie-Louise Delabigne, better known as Countess Valtesse de La Bigne, climbed…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. There are a few times throughout “ITS MY WORLD”, one of the tracks in Parris Goebel’s new seven-song EP, A GIRL IS A DRUG, when Goebel declares “I am the party”. And it’s true – for…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In Belladonna Project, an ongoing photographic collaboration from Lexi Hide and Emily Anjelika, you’ll see Dasha stretching on a yoga mat in a studio, cables and props scattered around her; a doctor in cobalt scrubs preparing…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. It’s safe to say that, for the art-obsessed, New York has no shortage of offerings. The recently re-opened Studio Museum in Harlem, however, now offers something none of its metropolitan counterparts can claim – a sprawling,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Ahead of this interview, I fell into a rabbit hole of fan-made edits of the I Wish You All the Best trailer, set to cult self-discovery anthems, moody transitions, and comment sections full of people already…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Miami’s JT might be known for her hard-hitting southern hip-hop rap verses, but she also has a soft side. Case in point: the album that got her through her two-year prison sentence? Ariana Grande’s Sweetener. “My…