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. Since it was founded in 1988, Maison Martin Margiela has operated within strict codes of anonymity. Its founding father intentionally eschewed interviews, with all press interactions conducted via fax or telephone. Even when Martin departed in…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Whether we want to admit it or not, the summer is coming to an end. Rewinding back to the start of the season, however, and we’ve had a string of standout festival fashion moments to keep…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This September, new worlds are surfacing. From Tilda Swinton’s mythic collaborations at Eye Filmmuseum, to Grant Mooney’s elemental frequencies humming through Chisenhale Gallery, Hannah Black’s textual surrealism, and Lawrence Lek’s sentient dreamscapes. Elsewhere, Undercurrent centres ESEA…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In 2022, 20-year-old aspiring rapper and university student ThxSoMch was listening to a Baby Keem type beat on the toilet when something in YouTube’s suggested section caught his eye. “It looked super different to anything I’d…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Austen – and now, Sabrina Carpenter. The Pennsylvania pop-it girl has been lauded as one of the greats for her discography of witty, campy, and unrepentantly horny lyricism. After edging us with smash-hit single…

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 young people are increasingly eschewing partying and late nights for wellness and the gym. Nearly half of young people no longer drink alcohol, with many citing health concerns as their principal motivation…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. All Jawara Wauchope needs is one good look at your hair to get a sense of who you are. “Hair is such a close reflection of yourself. It’s the most intimate thing; more than clothes, more…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Shortly after Maison Margiela announced Miley Cyrus as its first-ever celebrity face in 37 years, Kim Kardashian floated through the streets of Venice wearing a draped grey creation from Glenn Martens debut couture collection. For a…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Lady Gaga is no stranger to wearing graduate collections. In 2014, she purchased the entire final collection of Wilson PK, the Hong Kong designer who graduated from Central Saint Martins. She’s turned to Polimoda graduate Samuel…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. If you don’t know him as Blood Orange, you might know him as Devonté or Dev Hynes. You might know him as Lightspeed Champion, one member of Test Icicles, or even by his birth name, David….