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. We all have an image of Henry VIII in our minds – whether that’s a 16th-century Holbein portrait, or playboy Jonathan Rhys Meyers batting his eyelashes in the 00s Channel 4 series The Tudors. Henry is…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Since the menswear season kicked off in Milan last week, there have been several standout shows occupying our minds. Mrs P and Raf Simons flipped the familiar at Prada, taking everyday garments and subtly subverting our…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This afternoon, in Paris’s Musée Rodin, Irish designer Jonathan Anderson presented his latest collection for the house of Dior. Today’s catwalk marked Anderson’s second menswear show and third runway overall, featuring an eclectic mix of references…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. I landed in the Austrian Alps unable to ski and in borrowed salopettes, but when the driver arrived to collect me, I quickly realised that didn’t matter. Why? Because I was on my way to the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Paris Fashion Week men’s AW26 officially kicked off yesterday (January 20), and this evening we witnessed the biggest show of the year so far. It’s been three years since music legend Pharrell Williams was announced as…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The blue hair renaissance is upon us. The signs are everywhere: Oklou went blue last year to coincide with the release of choke enough, while Bassvictim’s Maria Manow’s icy tresses have slowly but surely become a…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. When Grace Wales Bonner was announced as Hermès’ menswear designer last October, the news produced a rare display of unity across the fashion industry. With her authoritative yet romantic take on men’s clothing, Wales Bonner was…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. For the 57,000 inhabitants of Greenland, the future is uncertain. Plans to buy or annex the nation by the US have triggered a standoff with Denmark (which holds sovereignty over Greenland as an autonomous territory), the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. You might know OPIA as the underground rave that celebrates all things “kitschy, slutty, and Avicii-inspired.” Or you might know them as the fashion disruptor duo – Bambi Dyboski and Bautista Botto Barilli – who accidentally…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “It all started with a dumb meme,” Theo* says. Some friends laughed when his boyfriend of eight years posted his AI-generated creation in the group chat. For Theo, 27, it hit a nerve. “He didn’t see…