These photos show the joy of partaking in ā€˜mobile phone behaviour’

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. When Chinese photographer Trunk Xu first fell in love with street photography, he says the magic was in it being a stolen moment, with the subject usually unaware their photo was being taken. Today, everyone is…

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Christopher Briney: ā€˜It’s hard to wear your heart on your sleeve’

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. It’s an intense day for Christopher Briney. We are speaking on the day of The Summer I Turned Pretty’s grand finale, and the actor’s face is filling up social media feeds around the world. There is…

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umru

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The self-described ā€œsearch-engine-optimisedā€ New York musician umru is at the forefront of a generation of internet artists brought up on Minecraft and Discord gaming servers. After spending most of his teen years online, he began uploading…

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Dario Vitale ropes in creative friends to tease new Versace vision

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In recent weeks, sentences alluding to ā€˜the big fashion switcharound’ have ceased to sound like words, as we hurtle into a fashion season full of massive debuts. Do I even need to go into who’s doing…

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What went down at LĘÆĢ£U ĐAĢ£Nā€˜s NYFW takeaway party

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. If New York nightlife has one rule, it’s that the night never ends until there’s food. Whether it’s a greasy slice grabbed curbside or dumplings wolfed down before sunrise, few things compare to that first bite…

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