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. Tucked into the pages of our Winter 2025 issue, you come across a series of images of girls hanging out with nothing much to prove. They are putting on each other’s makeup, sitting at a party,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This article was originally published 18 December 2023. Christmas is a time of bizarre rites and rituals, one that sees children embark on pilgrimages to tinsel-wrapped trees in town squares and to fake Father Christmasses in…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. WINNERS ZOHRAN MAMDANI Mamdani triumphed in New York’s mayoral election against overwhelming odds, including a vicious and often Islamophobic smear campaign, lukewarm support from his own party, and the deep pockets of billionaire donors backing rival…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. For this year’s edition of the Dazed 100 – our annual list of the pioneers, changemakers, and new talent who are shaping youth culture today – we asked five listees to answer our dA-Zed quiz. Naley…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “At this moment, I felt that the last thing we need is more images of bloodshed, violence and dead Palestinians,” says Dalia Al-Dujaili, the curator of Ard: To Belong to Land, a new exhibition of Palestinian…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Sigrid is getting ready to go skiing. It’s a typically Norwegian scene: a wooden cabin, snow on the trees outside the window. From growing up in Ålesund on Norway’s west coast, to her teenage years in…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. From John Lennon and Paul McCartney to Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, history has no shortage of iconic creative collaborations. Oftentimes, the work that’s produced by a pair of collaborators is distinct from, or at times…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The year is 2017, and Timothée Chalamet has just made love to a soft, fleshy fruit on camera. The infamous “peach scene” from Call Me By Your Name needs no more introduction than that, having secured…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. While the 2026 World Cup is still months away, soccer fans in America and Canada now have an earlier reason to celebrate. Italian sports brand Lotto recently announced a new licensing partnership with Pure Cotton Global…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. That street style, eh? That street style, it just won’t go away. It might hibernate from time to time, and sink back into the swamp. I think the cyclical nature of fashion in which it exists…