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. Turnstile are the biggest hardcore band in the world right now, and they didn’t get there by playing…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Kianna Naomi is a 26‑year‑old internet personality and storyteller based in New York. You might know her from her global travel vlogs or her growing book archive (@notkiannasbookclub). “Beauty, to me, is expression. The most beautiful…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Chances are you already knew this, but it looks like the 2020s is the era of the It-bag revival. Last year, Chemena Kamali’s AW25 catwalk brought the Chloé Paddington back from the dead, a former favourite…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Down at Accra’s Ghud Park, the community platform and brand Free The Youth kicked off the year on a high, throwing a ten-year anniversary event, dubbed the FTYRAVE, with a stacked lineup of performers and MCs,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The year is 2007. Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna are papped on their way to the gym in London. Between the low-slung sweats and Ed Hardy prints, they look comfortable and effortless. What’s more, they look different…

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. Turnstile are the biggest hardcore band in the world right now, and they didn’t get there by playing…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Björk has issued a statement of solidarity with the people of Greenland, as Trump ramps up his threats to annex the Arctic island. Posting on Instagram, the singer urged the people on Greenland to sever ties…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. 2025 was supposed to be the year we swapped boyfriends for bionic lovers. Instead, in the latest instalment of intimacy as a UX problem we need to solve, we have the arrival of the world’s first…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. While Christmas decorations have been down for all of five minutes, the fashion world waits for no man, and is already blasting through to the next season of festivities. But rather than mince pies and presents,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. 2025 closed off with an internet-shattering surprise collaboration between Timothée Chalamet and breakout star EsDeeKid, who was barely known at the start of the year, and 2026 shows no sign of slowing down. Less than a…