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 Fünke, 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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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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Silvia Venturini Fendi is stepping down as Fendi creative director

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. It wouldn’t be fashion week without at least one creative director announcement, so naturally within the space of 48 hours, there’s been two. Yesterday (September 27), Sunnei creative directors Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo bid farewell…

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This photo book documents a decade of east London’s febrile street life

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. At first glance, the premise for Gareth McConnell’s newly published photography book, Window, is fairly straightforward. As the title suggests, the Belfast-born, London-based photographer pointed a camera outside the window of his east London flat hundreds…

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