Category: Lifestyle & Culture

Mac DeMarco sees himself as an old man nowadays. In fact, he says it frequently throughout our interview. He’s five years sober, is growing tired of what he calls the “profit-driven” music industry and is increasingly spending time out in the sticks of his Canadian homeland. His new album, Guitar, is “just a record from…

Material Conversations, curated by Hanna Ten Meulen, marked the culmination of the Dazed Club x Mason & Fifth artist residency, which launched this summer. Eight artists from across the UK, France, Lebanon, and Mexico – Daniel Santangelo, Deniz Bedir, Ignacio Maximiliano Ruelas Lopez, Meenakashi Ghadial, Susan Kellaway, Tonique Sewell, Yahvi Duggal, and Yasmina Hilla –…

Audrey Hobert – Who’s The Clown BTS8 Images Four months ago, Audrey Hobert dropped her first-ever single, “Sue Me”. An upbeat, pop anthem about yearning where she manages to sing “sue me, I want to be wanted”, over 30 times in just under three minutes. Within a few weeks of the song’s release, it became…

In comparison to last year’s never-ending Brat summer, this summer has been and gone in the blink of an eye. Just as we were getting into the swing of festival season, the school gates are getting ready to reopen, and we’re shivering by 6pm.  That said, London knows how to throw a party. And there’s…

If marriage counselling or divorce proceedings sound like a chore, suspicious wives in China have an alternate method of dealing with a cheating husband. Behold, the so-called “mistress dispeller”: a woman who goes undercover to break up the affair between a wayward man and his secret love. It sounds like a kooky invention, but it’s…

If you’ve been on TikTok recently, you’ve likely seen influencers and make-up artists transforming themselves into an ‘LA 10’, ‘London 10’, or ‘New York 10’ while lip-syncing to Foxy Brown’s earworm Candy. The trend was started by Lottie Starrs (@lottiestarrs), who posted a tongue-in-cheek video captioned, “When I get bored one night and decide to…

A guide to the erotic, stylish cinema of Takashi Ishii14 Images In the transitional decade that was the 80s, Japan’s once-dominant studio system faltered as even the most established directors struggled to secure funding for their projects. For aspiring creatives, the path to filmmaking often led them to the fringes, with DIY productions, the straight-to-video…

Today (August 21) marks the first day of the Global Strike for Gaza. Since October 7, Israel has killed more than 62,000 Palestinians. The population continues to endure relentless bombardment, starvation and the daily killing of people searching for food for their families. As we continue to protest and challenge the UK government for its…

At a certain age, children believe that all adults fall into one of the following categories: popstar, teacher, astronaut, footballer, vet, doctor or dentist. But as we get older, we discover broader possibilities for our futures. In Design and Technology class (DT), you might have been briefly introduced to Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano (both…

UGGs have come a long way since they were first seen slopping around wet high streets up and down the country in the early 00s. Once the mainstay of Y2K it-girlies like Paris Hilton – usually matched with a Juicy tracksuit and a massive cup of coffee – and later a go-to for discerning millennials…