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 history of Chanel and cinema dates back to the golden years of Hollywood. In the 1930s, Gabrielle Chanel, the brand’s infamous founder, was invited by the American movie producer Samuel Goldwyn to dress the stars…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. From its recent Paris runway that celebrated the humble apron, to its ongoing Women’s Tales film series, the lives and histories of women have always taken centre stage at Miu Miu. Now, the label has teamed…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. For most people, the list of the people they’ve slept with isn’t something physical – maybe a half-finished Notes app list or scattered between DMs and dating app chat logs. But for performance artist Harriet Richardson,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Between a historically unfavourable job market, higher costs of living and a society that feels more polarised than ever, young Americans are coming of age at a time that feels far less promising than that of…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. People have always come to Berlin looking for something – a space to create, to escape or to start over. For generations, the city has a way of pulling people in and making room for them,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. It’s no secret that social media, and Instagram in particular, has been a frontier for people to explore their creativity. That’s why this October, the platform launched ‘Instagram Rings’, a new award for creators designed to…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Now that it’s over, and the dust has finally settled on Paris Fashion Week, we’ll remember SS26 as a historic season for designer debuts. Sure, it might have felt like an intense and incessant stream of…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Sometimes, periods of enforced inactivity with other people – time spent waiting around; the in-between moments – can be unexpectedly transformative. For Nick Offord, these encounters are the basis of his second monograph, No Shows –…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Vivienne Westwood’s passing in 2023 left a gaping hole in fashion – it was hard to believe that such a formidable force was no longer with us. A fearless campaigner who raised awareness on issues including…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “I mean the elephant in the room is that me and MIKE are pretty similar,” Earl Sweatshirt tells Dazed over video call. MIKE, who is sitting next to him, immediately bursts into a fit of laughter…