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. It’s been a very busy few months for Jil Sander creative director Simone Bellotti. In September, the Italian designer made his debut at the German house, laying the foundations for its future with an ode to…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Proclamations of rap’s death have been circulating for a while now. And while this discourse overlooks the gargantuan influence rap and hip-hop artists have had on mainstream music as a whole, it’s true that many of…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Beauty is complicated. At times it can seem amorphous, yet at other times it can feel too rigidly defined. It’s alluring yet exclusionary; elevating and subjugating. Its codes, conventions and, above all, its contradictions, make beauty…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Kristoffer Borgli’s new psychological-romantic comedy, The Drama, asks if we can handle knowing the worst thing a person has ever done and continue to love them despite it. This is a difficult question to handle interpersonally,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. For the last six years, Middle East Archive has documented visual culture across the Middle East, North Africa, and the diaspora. Founded by curator Romaisa Baddar, the archive previously focused on living rooms across the MENA…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Though she wouldn’t trade it for New York, being a Londoner seems to suit Stephanie Wambugu. “I’m generally doing the same sorts of things while I’m here,” says the 28-year-old Kenyan-American author, who has been working…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. ​​Welcome to the Archive Pull, a series delving into the 30-year history of our print magazine. Here, we look back at a shoot featuring artists Gillian Wearing, Alexis Marguerite Teplin, Goshka Macuga and Jane and Louise…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The Italian director Gianfranco Rosi has long established an aesthetic for his patient, poetic documentary features: no talking heads, no music, no voiceover, just the simplicity of the images speaking for themselves. On Sacro GRA, it’s an…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. How do you know what you truly like? In a sea of algorithmic recommendations, ‘cool girl’ shopping guides and tips for dressing like Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, this question cuts to the heart of conversations about taste….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “I don’t believe in art for art’s sake. I don’t believe in safe art. I don’t believe in art that’s apolitical, decorative or elitist,” says photographer Slava Mogutin, the subject of a new retrospective exhibition –…