Category: Lifestyle & Culture

​​Welcome to the Archive Pull, a series delving into the 30-year history of our print magazine. Here, we look back at an interview with Hussein Chalayan ahead of his first major British exhibition at the Design Museum, originally published in the February 2009 issue of Dazed amp; Confused. Hussein Chalayan is the pied piper of…

It’s been a busy few months for Spanish rapper Bb Trickz. In April, she dropped her latest album 80’z, and then she became the face of ICECREAM (an extension of Pharrell and Nigo’s

Summer is my favorite season. It’s when I’m happiest, feel my greatest, and the only time of year that makes the thrill of a fast-paced life worth it. Maybe it’s because I’m from Los Angeles and my happiness depends on warm weather, but the transition from spring to summer really does something to me, and…

What makes a ‘happy victim’, as defined by Japanese photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki in his 2008 photo book of the same name, comes down to a singular obsession. “[They] love clothes so much that they’ve trimmed the three necessities of human life – food, clothing, and shelter – down to just one,” he wrote at the time, “and then…

Medieval LARPing is levelling up, with the Middle Ages becoming the go-to playbook for tattoo designs. Think weathered brick castles, crumbling torrents and battle-scarred dragons. As a pushback against hyper-online cultures, tattoos are shifting towards a medieval aesthetic, reimagining iconography and lettering for a new age. This reworking of medieval imagery is what scholars call…

In the UK, festival fashion has taken a new turn in recent years. Gone are the wax jackets, mini dresses, glittered cheeks and fairy-like accessories. In 2025, festival style is all grown up. Basically, we’ve swapped cute for cunt, and at Maiden Voyage this weekend, some attendees even had the word spelt out across their…

In 1968, the ICA hosted an exhibition titled Cybernetic Serendipity, showcasing artists’ experiments with new technologies, including robots, algorithms, and computer graphics. “Bringing together composers, artists, filmmakers, engineers, scientists, and academics, the exhibition sparked a dialogue, spanning multiple continents, about the relationship between technology and the arts,” writes Ruth Mackenzie, director of arts at the…

“I wanna fuck my computer,” states a deadpan Ninajirachi on the aptly titled “Fuck my Computer”, her debut album’s second single. What might first read as a tongue-in-cheek lyric becomes significantly more profound when nested in an album exploring early-internet culture, online trauma, and technology’s impact on human creativity.  Nina Wilson, aka Ninajirachi, is a…

Back in April, Bianca Saunders launched 38 Love Lane. Created in collaboration with Amsterdam-based photographer Kwabena Sekyi Appiah-Nti, the zine explored Saunders’ Jamaican heritage, returning to the country for a series of intimate shoots, and featuring contributions from the writer Jordan Anderson and her mother Yvonne. This past weekend, to celebrate Jamaican Independence Day, Saundershellip;…

Copenhagen Fashion Week feels like it gets bigger every year, and this season was a bit of a bonanza – there was so much happening across the Danish capital it was hard to find time to get to see it all. In recent years, the city’s designers have shrugged off the clean-cut Scandi style it…