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. The other day, while scrolling through Instagram Reels, I came across a guy rubbing dog paw medicine onto his hands. He then demonstrated a planche, an already difficult calisthenics move where you lift your body into…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Davide Sorrenti Journals 1994-1995 brings together contact sheets, snapshots, prints, stickers, and Polaroids of the revered eponymous photographer (brother of fashion photographer Mario), collected over two years of his cut-short life. Often cited as one of…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. It’s been no more than five days since Dario Vitale’s departure from Versace, and the fashion world is still scratching its head. Over on High Fashion Twitter (yes, that’s still just about a thing), Vitale’s eight-month…

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 for 2025! Now running for over a decade since it first launched, our annual round-up has featured some of the most inspiring emerging names in fashion, music, activism, art and more,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. DISAPPOINT ME, NICOLA DINAN Max, the trans protagonist of Nicola Dinan’s sophomore novel, has all the outward trappings of success – she’s a well-paid legal counsel and a published poet to boot – but deep down,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. After two or three alternative medicine podcasts, the idea that Ozempic can cure social anxiety starts to sound almost reasonable. Sandwiched between claims that Justin Bieber is a blue-eyed, blonde-haired extraterrestrial called a <ahellip; read more…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. It’s been a great year for music, and music videos have been there (almost) all of the way. From Sabrina Carpenter’s pithy, tongue-in-cheek “Manchild” and “Tears”, to breakout newcomer EsDeeKid’s dark, Gotham-like “Century”, music videos have…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. If you’ve caught yourself staring at a London cab lately because you could swear Kate Moss was on the side of it, you’re not losing it. She really is everywhere right now. The supermodel has taken…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Filmmaker Kahlil Joseph’s debut feature film BLKNWS: Terms amp; Conditions defies categorisation. At once a work of documentary and speculative fiction, it is a wholly original cinematic work that spans multiple dimensions. A spaceship that melts…

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 persistent trope in pop culture where acquiring a rich partner is the hardest part of wage-gap dating (that is, a relationship where one party earns significantly more than the other). They live in one…