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. The Brit Awards are back on our screens tonight, which can only mean one thing: a red carpet filled with all the latest celebrity fashion. And while the event arrives at pretty much exactly the same…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. If you are remotely interested in fashion and are in possession of a phone, chances are that over the last 24 hours, you have seen countless images and videos from Gucci’s AW26 show. As Demna’s first…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “Mitski has joined the war against seasonal depression on the side of seasonal depression” reads a now-viral post as singer-songwriter Mitski teased her latest album, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me (watch her preview the record…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This year, the Brit Awards is going to be hosted in Manchester – the first ceremony outside London in its 50-year history. However, judging from the nominees, you’d think the city was cut off from the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Nature has been the muse of storytellers and artisans since the very beginning (see: the snails, frogs, and other funny little guys who occupied the margins of medieval manuscripts and ancient tapestries). Today, it can often…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The Mulberry Bayswater has had the world in a chokehold for over 20 years. When the handbag first dropped in 2003, it was quickly spotted on the arm of every 00s It girl, subsequently becoming the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. As is the customary practice for any 21st-century brand, Gucci’s new era began with a social media wipe down. At the beginning of the week, the Italian house stripped its Instagram page bare, and then proceeded…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. We all have that item in our wardrobe that’s undeniably ran-through – for good reason. A staple that, no matter what the occasion, we can throw on without a second thought. For many, that’s a pair…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In recent years, cybersigilism – the controversial, cyborgian tattoo style – has hacked its way into our cultural landscape. Defined by fine-lined, greyscale drawings resembling skeletal veins, these strange designs mirror the growing digitalisation of the modern…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This piece was originally published 2 April 2025. “Have you seen Charles’ girlfriend? She’s so hot,” a journalist I met at the Melbourne Grand Prix tells me. He was referring to the Formula One driver for…