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. It’s been a busy few years for Stone Island. From putting out documentary films to cosying up with post-punk artists, the Italian brand has been going the extra mile to remind its customers that its brand…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Of all the London brands, KNWLS is one that feels the most London. Though Charlotte Knowles grew up in rural Scotland, and Alexandre Arsenault is from Montreal, both designers studied at Saint Martins, and the brand…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. With so much change happening in fashion right now, if there’s one brand we can rely on to remain stable and consistent, it’s Prada. This afternoon (September 25), the Italian brand delivered its SS26 womenswear collection,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Even if you do not know them by name, you’ve seen a VanMoof bike before, likely at the hands of your last designer Hinge date looping through a park on a sunny weekend. Now, the brand…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Harris Dickinson has always been fascinated by the elusive nature of the human mind. From playing a model using his body for survival (Triangle of Sadness) to an enigmatic intern seducing his boss (Babygirl) to a…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. From his teenage depictions of Brighton’s skateboarders to his Hitchcockian-lit 90s Prada campaigns, Glen Luchford’s raw and vivid images have come to redefine a new visual language of fashion photography over the past three decades. Now,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. You could say that Matthew Gasda specialises in period pieces – that is, culture, politics, and technology have accelerated to such a fast pace that his contemporary plays have already entered the history books by the time…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The simplest painting in the Tate Modern is an ultramarine blue rectangle, Yves Klein’s IKB 79, painted in 1959. Famously, ‘IKB’ stands for his trademark, patented colour, International Klein Blue, and the painting at the Tate…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Etsy witches have been a hot topic on the internet in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, after it transpired that the staff of Gawker’s Jezebel had asked several Etsy witches to curse the right-wing activist…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Since arriving on the scene in 2014 with his transgressive label Vetements, we’ve known Georgian mastermind Demna to do things a little differently. His shock defection from Balenciaga to Gucci back in March continued his penchant…