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. 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…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In a world exclusive for Dazed, singer-songwriter and self-proclaimed “cat mom” Mitski has debuted her eighth album, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, to a room full of cats. The video, filmed in Koneko Cat Cafe…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. There could have been any number of mistakes during the Prada AW26 show, but we would never have noticed. The brand’s flavour du jour is disheveled, meaning that hair is unbrushed, straps fall off shoulders and…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Burnt plastic, stainless steel, clouds, sweat and rubber. These were the answers gathered from a Reddit thread asking: what does the internet smell like? It may seem nonsensical to assign a scent to something metaphysical, but…