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. Are you a Lazada e-Girl? Or, a Geylang drifter? Perhaps you’re a Shabby Star, or a Mobile Legends bang out (or both)? If so, and you’re based in London, then there’s a good chance you were…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Berlin has always been a city that attracts people who want to live and create differently. For DJ Fuckoff, arriving to the German capital at 21 was the start of something much bigger than she expected….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. We’ve seen a lot of protective fashion this season. At Courrèges, Nicolas Di Felice delivered a collection meant to be worn on the surface of the sun (though we don’t recommend testing it out). At Miu…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. As well as one of Paris Fashion Week’s most-coveted invites, the Miu Miu show has recently become a game of Where’s Wally thanks to Mrs Prada and her love of a cult catwalk cameo. Willem Dafoe…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Journeys have a way of shaping creativity. Sometimes they are literal, tracing miles across highways and anonymous city streets. Other times, they are internal, marked by dislocation, fear and the shifting ways we see ourselves in…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. I am proud to say I have never tried Huel. Despite a flatmate once accusing me of consuming a diet primarily made up of beige mush, the idea of consuming my daily calories in the blandest,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Some heroes wear capes, others ride Lime bikes. This was how UK MVP Jim Legxacy entered the final leg of his debut, fully sold-out UK tour last weekend, which, much like his music, was packed with…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. How do you know that fall has truly arrived in New York? It’s when you start to see Timbs on everyone’s feet. Timberland, the brand best known for its chunky platform boots, is a label synonymous…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Welcome to the Fashion Week Photo Diary, a series where local photographers document the faces, places and parties surrounding their city’s catwalk shows. “I took shrooms at a very terrible runway show that I will not…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Pierpaolo Piccioli is collecting fashion houses like infinity stones. The Italian designer saw most of the 90s out at the Roman casa Fendi, before defecting to Valentino in 1999 to oversee the accessories department with Maria…