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. “Yeah, it’s true [I’ve been using a doppelgänger]. I just thought it would be funny, nothing more to it,” Japanese-Australian singer Joji admitted in his recent Genius interview, unzipping his coat and settling into his seat….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The Dazed Beauty Community is our ever-expanding encyclopaedia of creatives and emerging talent from across the world who are redefining the way we think about beauty. Discover them here. “Beauty isn’t a fixed point for me,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. On X, 2026 began with a disturbing trend. Under photos shared by people (largely young women) on the app, users asked Grok, the AI chatbot built into the Elon Musk-owned social platform, to remove the poster’s…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. I meet Wesley Joseph at the Barbican on a snowy January morning. Quickly talk turns to the new Timothée Chalamet flick Marty Supreme as we settle into our seats. I mention that it seems to have…

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 8 January 2019. “I think that, at heart, I’m no different from anybody else,” reflected David Bowie to Jefferson Hack in his 1995 cover interview for Dazed. “And yet,” Hack wrote in…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Black Photojournalism is a truly vast new show occupying three prodigious exhibition rooms of Pittsburgh’s illustrious Carnegie Museum of Art. Through a constellation of pictures, it tells a story about the intersection of historical events and…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Namibia Flores Rodriguez is a Cuban boxing champion – a fact widely known, though she’s never officially competed for her country. Raised in Havana, she turned to the sport after a difficult childhood, and it became…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This article is partly taken from the winter 2025 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here. Turnstile are the biggest hardcore band in the world right now, and they didn’t get there by playing…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Kianna Naomi is a 26‑year‑old internet personality and storyteller based in New York. You might know her from her global travel vlogs or her growing book archive (@notkiannasbookclub). “Beauty, to me, is expression. The most beautiful…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Chances are you already knew this, but it looks like the 2020s is the era of the It-bag revival. Last year, Chemena Kamali’s AW25 catwalk brought the Chloé Paddington back from the dead, a former favourite…