October 2025 Horoscopes: Situationships are progressing into relationships

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Grace McGrade is an intuitive astrologer based in Los Angeles. She is the head astrologer of the app “Stars Align”. Her sessions include birth chart readings, transits, energetic clearings and psychic consultations. For more astrology, read…

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Alt-pop duo multiscreen are finding beauty in brain rot

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. multiscreen’s north star? The thing that will mean everything’s been worth it? “Collab with Benson Boone,” offers Louis Ravens, one half of the enigmatic music duo (though he’s perhaps better known as the guy who did…

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Louis Vuitton SS26 is all dressed up with nowhere to go

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Though the sun is beaming over Paris today (September 30), Louis Vuitton’s latest collection wants us to stay inside. While other designers look to nature for inspiration, creative director Nicolas Ghesquière decided to celebrate the great…

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Girls: The exhibition exploring girlhood, boredom and rebellion

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Communion dresses, colourful hair accessories and glittery fairy wands… just some of the familiar archetypes that serve as visual markers of girlhood. The way we shape and, ultimately, recollect our adolescence is often inextricably linked to…

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How to date when… they’re your ex

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. There’s a scene in the comedy show Arrested Development where Tobias and Lindsay FĂĽnke, a hopelessly ill-suited couple, are discussing how to save their marriage. He tells her that in his work as a therapist he’d…

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Saint Laurent’s leather mommies spent the night cruising in a Paris park

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Three down, one to go. After pit stops in NYC, London, and Milan, the fashion crowd touched down en Paris for the final leg of the SS26 womenswear shows yesterday (September 29), with the likes of…

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Patricia Lockwood’s new novel details her descent into post-Covid delirium

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “A book especially tried to force you to see things, try to breed you, in short, like a sunflower,” Patricia Lockwood writes. Her new autofictional novel — following her memoir Priestdaddy and 2021 Booker Prize shortlisted…

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