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. There’s a delicate euphoria that connects Oklou and FKA twigs’ music. Both of their critically-acclaimed recent albums explore very human themes through intensely digital production – Oklou’s choke enough recasts the language of folklore and medieval…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Grace Byron occupies a curious position in New York culture: she is a rising star in a collapsing industry. A journalist and cultural critic for an array of the US’s most eminent magazines, she has built…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “Quit drinking if you want a free face lift,” one TikTok is titled. In it, the creator points to her cheekbones like a weatherman points to the sun on a map. In another, a toned influencer…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In the last week, Israel illegally detained more than 450 crew members from the Global Sumud Flotilla. While deportations are underway, reports of brutal treatment and violence are streaming in. “Ihellip; 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. This past July, Noella Williams was laid off from her job as social media coordinator, a role that entailed creating around 15 social posts a day. Williams, who is against the use of AI because of…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In the immortal words of Kamala Harris: we did it, Joe. Paris Fashion Week SS26 has finally been completed. Though the Paris shows are already a mammoth task – with their enormous schedules and ridiculous hours…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Björk has shared a statement calling for Icelandic authorities to fight for the release of Magga Stína, an Icelandic singer. According to news reports, Stína was among a group of activists seized by the Israeli army…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Growing older brings a certain detachment from past versions of yourself, but they never fully leave you. As photographer Guen Fiore describes the resonances that linger in her portraits, “What was once loud softens, but it…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Anna, a 22-year-old in Vancouver, Canada, met her current partner at a party her ex-boyfriend didn’t come to. “He was someone who didn’t enjoy being around people at all, whereas I’m the complete opposite,” she says….