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. This article is partly taken from the winter 2025 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here. Taipei-born, LA-based singer R!R!Riot (pronounced ‘ri-ri-riot’) is in uncharted territory. In the last two years, young people in…

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 little over a year since Westside Cowboy released their debut single, and yet they were one of the most talked-about bands on the UK indie scene in 2025. Three of the four members…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. As our identities become increasingly enmeshed with digital worlds, it’s easy to feel split between who we are online and who we are IRL. It’s a reckoning that’s led us to view our real-life selves as…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. By many accounts, Donald Trump is an art lover… as long as the art has his face on it, and ideally bolsters his reputation as a world-historical figure. Back inhellip; read more raquo; Source: www.dazeddigital.com —…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The images from Nan Goldin’s indelible book, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, are being presented in their entirety for the first time in the UK. The exhibition at Gagosian, London, marks 40 years since the publication…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In cities and towns across the mining regions of the former Soviet Union, the last Sunday in August is Miners’ Day, a municipal celebration to honour the hard work, courage and sacrifice of the area’s miners….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This article contains spoilers for Marty Supreme and The Pearl. In John Steinbeck’s 1947 novella The Pearl, we follow Kino, an indigenous man in California, who wants life to be different for his family, and especially…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Almost every day, we scroll past a passport photo. They stand out; one of the few remaining images that produces visual sameness inside a feed engineered for constant mutation. The passport picture – along with its…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. UK rap tastemaker YT’s decision to redact a lyrical reference to adult entertainer Bonnie Blue last March surprised many. Although the Romford artist had never been shy to talk about his Christian faith, this was the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. December is a strange time for big new things to happen. Media is no exception: most journalists get their ‘best of 2025’ lists out by December 10, ready to log out of their email and spend…