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. Is your nervous system regulated? It’s the question on everyone’s minds these days – at least, it seems that way on TikTok, where a growing wave of wellness routines aimed at “resetting” our systems is sliding…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In April 2024, Vincenzo Camille rebranded from 9090gate to fakemink. Since then, the Essex-born rapper-producer has released around 100 singles, become the breakout star of the UK Ug movement, and topped Dazed’s best tracks of 2025 list….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Last summer we caught up with the queer collective Sextou as they celebrated their first birthday, capturing all the “raw and real” looks the London rave had to offer. Now, we return to the Sextou dancefloor…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. As Madonna once said in her seminal work “Die Another Day” – from the motion picture soundtrack of Die Another Day – “Sigmund Freud… analyse this!” While not a single day goes by that I’m not…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Athleisure has long been a staple of modern wardrobes, but a quick scroll through TikTok right now points to a specific revival. The influence of 90s and early 2000s fitness culture is everywhere, from vintage-fitted tanks…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The ongoing ICE operations and the killings of citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents have upended the Minneapolis community. The events have sparked widespread protests, as the city confronts the unchecked violence of…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Luster is the quality of shining – the way light catches on a surface and holds your attention. It’s through this shimmering lens that Maria Somerville reflects on her Irish homeland in her debut album, Luster….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Alessandro Michele delivered his latest Valentino couture collection today (January 28) in the French capital, less than 10 days since the death of the brand’s founder, Valentino Garavani, who died surrounded by family last Monday (January…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. From Brit funk to jungle, trip hop to UK garage, Black music has played a defining role in modern British culture – and, by extension, modern British life – so it seems appropriate that Vamp;A East’s very first…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. London’s nightlife crisis is no secret. Last year, the Nighttime Industries Association predicted that, if venue closures continue at the current rate, then there will be no major clubs left in the entire UK by 2030….