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. 2025 was the year that Aminatou Diallo, a 23-year-old New York-based creator, embraced her “whimsy”. By that, she means doing everything she wanted to do as a child. “I got a pair of roller skates, signed…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. There is a long history of political prisoners using hunger strikes to resist the British state. Over the last month, the tactic has been taken up by eight Palestine solidarity activists, some who have been imprisoned…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Twenty years ago, Salomon introduced the ACS PRO silhouette, a high-performance design that went on to shape its identity far beyond the trail. Built with technical rigour and obsessive detail, the ACS PRO became rooted in…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The Dazed 100 is back. Across four lists – Global, US, Asia and MENA – the Dazed community has curated a list of the most exciting emerging creatives and inspiring change-makers,hellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. 25 years ago, in the year 2000, Dazed travelled to Gorillaz HQ in west London for their first ever interview. Virtual or not, the band were vividly alive: lead singer 2D puking on the streets of…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Last month, we saw the first trailer for the highly anticipated The Devil Wears Prada 2, but what should’ve been a moment of collective excitement quickly turned into a moment of collective rage. “I’m no fashion…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Though modelling is an inherently aesthetic practice, multidisciplinary brand EBiT (Enjoy Being in Transition) has taken a more holistic approach to casting. For the brand’s latest project, a new website and e-commerce platform, it exclusively featured…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Fashion has a funny relationship with trends: we love to hate them. Trendsetters are our gods, and yet anyone who follows a trend is deemed to have no personal style. When a certain style starts trending,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Photographers have long been fascinated with the darker side of sexuality – from Robert Mapplethorpe to Catherine Opie to Bob Carlos Clarke, kink and fetish are part of the artistic canon. But if previously photographing BDSM…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. A couple of hours outside Berlin, near Cologne, there’s a farm where 35 gay sheep live in quiet, improbable peace. It reads like the opening line of a queer fairytale, and in some ways, it is….