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. “Dildos were so, so abundant in the archives,” Noor Bhangu, curator of Deviant Ornaments, a new exhibition at Norway’s National Museum, tells Dazed. “But there is far less visual and textual representation of femalehellip; read more…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. One of the best ways to fight off the January blues is to start plotting “shows to see” on your calendar. As photography celebrates its 200th birthday, we’ve cherry-picked 10 of 2026’s hottest photography exhibitions, spanning…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. While we’re still patiently waiting for Demna’s Gucci runway debut, the Georgian designer is keeping us satisfied with a drip feed of fashion in the meantime. Last month, it was Generation Gucci, the label’s Pre-Fall 2026…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “Yeah, it’s true [I’ve been using a doppelgänger]. I just thought it would be funny, nothing more to it,” Japanese-Australian singer Joji admitted in his recent Genius interview, unzipping his coat and settling into his seat….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The Dazed Beauty Community is our ever-expanding encyclopaedia of creatives and emerging talent from across the world who are redefining the way we think about beauty. Discover them here. “Beauty isn’t a fixed point for me,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. On X, 2026 began with a disturbing trend. Under photos shared by people (largely young women) on the app, users asked Grok, the AI chatbot built into the Elon Musk-owned social platform, to remove the poster’s…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. I meet Wesley Joseph at the Barbican on a snowy January morning. Quickly talk turns to the new Timothée Chalamet flick Marty Supreme as we settle into our seats. I mention that it seems to have…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This article was originally published 8 January 2019. “I think that, at heart, I’m no different from anybody else,” reflected David Bowie to Jefferson Hack in his 1995 cover interview for Dazed. “And yet,” Hack wrote in…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Black Photojournalism is a truly vast new show occupying three prodigious exhibition rooms of Pittsburgh’s illustrious Carnegie Museum of Art. Through a constellation of pictures, it tells a story about the intersection of historical events and…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Namibia Flores Rodriguez is a Cuban boxing champion – a fact widely known, though she’s never officially competed for her country. Raised in Havana, she turned to the sport after a difficult childhood, and it became…