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 month’s mix comes by way of Milan DJ and producer Evissimax, who delivers a high-voltage mix, an ode to blissfully sweaty nights on the dancefloor. Heavily inspired by the club-inflected sounds of Y2K rap and…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Nicki Minaj is a Republican. We know this not because the former queen of rap is on a right-wing press tour doing interviews with Erica Kirk, the CEO of Turning Point USA and Katie Miller or…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “We have to look after each other because no one else will,” Gracie Brackstone writes in Heaven amp; Hell, Love amp; Loss, her new photo book which traces the whiplash of life between 2024 and 2025….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Ryan Murphy’s newest show, The Beauty, is a satire for the Ozempic age, exploring our image-obsessed, beauty-as-currency culture through body horror, exploding models, gooning and sexually transmitted diseases that (spoiler!) make you beautiful.hellip; read more raquo;…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Islands hold a special place for Gabriela Richardson. The 31-year-old Afro-Spanish musician, whose debut album Isola was released at the end of last week, was born to a Catalan mother and African American father, both artists…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In May 1970, four students at Kent State University were killed by the National Guard during a protest against the Vietnam War. It would be difficult to overstate the role this event has played in American…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Netflix is no stranger to a damage control documentary, but its latest offering could be the premiere example of crisis management disguised as millennial nostalgia-bait. Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, the streamer’s new three-episode…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The three films in Farah Al Qasimi’s latest show at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Psychic Repair, are the length of songs. The photographer and musician, who’s known for interrogating the hierarchies of information and emotion inherent…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The Secret Agent is the film of the moment. So much so, when I speak to the Brazilian duo Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura in mid-January, the interview ends early because they receive a congratulatory…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Yesterday afternoon (February 21), Daniel del Valle delivered his debut fashion show during London Fashion Week. As a semi-finalist for the 2026 LVMH Prize, the Andalusian artist managed to lure even the industry’s biggest critics to…