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. Three cities down, and one to go. But, before we head into the longest week of the fashion season in Paris, Milan Fashion Week brought a whirlwind of creative director debuts, A-list runway appearances, and viral…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Before the phrase ‘fineshyt’ was everywhere this summer, Lazer Dim 700 was using it in his videos. It’s something the American rapper has said he first heard where he’s from in Georgia. The spelling – or…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. At first glance, the premise for Gareth McConnell’s newly published photography book, Window, is fairly straightforward. As the title suggests, the Belfast-born, London-based photographer pointed a camera outside the window of his east London flat hundreds…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Eight years ago, Madeline Thornalley set out to remake a hat she loved – but with no background in fashion design, it became a pursuit of stubborn trial and error. “It kept going wrong, I kept…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Woolwich Crown Court erupted in cheers and applause this morning (September 26) as Irish language rapper Mo Chara (real name Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh) heard that the charges brought against him for allegedly supporting Hamas, a…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. For Japanese singer Ado, the blue rose is a mirror of her very being. Once believed impossible, this flower did not exist until 2002 – the year she was born – when it was finally created…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. For decades, Benetton has been acclaimed, and occasionally criticised, for its bold, forward-thinking and sometimes provocative campaigns. Through its collaborations with the late photographer Oliviero Toscani in the 80s and 90s, the brand repeatedly drew attention…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This gallery is taken from the autumn 2025 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here. Push through the doors at algha’s plantroom, an industrial space in east London, and you’ll find playbody: part…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. At first glance, the four artists nominated for the 2025 Turner Prize are strikingly different. The Turner Prize aims to celebrate and debate new developments in contemporary art in Britain; if Nnena Kalu, René Matić, Mohammed…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Writers have always been fashion’s eternal muses. From Colette’s Parisian decadence to Joan Didion’s Céline ads, literature’s most celebrated voices have found their influence in many different aspects of the fashion industry. Designers like Antonio Marras…