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 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…

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 doll?” a friend once asked photographer Ezekiel in the early hours of a late-night afters. “Somewhere between a doll and a dog,” they replied – a phrase that would go on to title…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Growing up in a vegetarian household, I was aware that being plant-based was deeply uncool for most of my younger years. Then came Veganuary in 2014. In the years that followed, everyone from (albeit dangerous) wellness…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “Every club has its own rhythm,” explains photographer Sofiya Loriashvili. Her latest photo series, Stripper Edition, is shot inside the strip clubs in Sint Maarten and Paris where she works, pulling back the curtain on the…