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. In February, close to the beginning of Central Saint Martins’ 140-look MA show, a collection appeared on the runway that forced onlookers to cock their heads with a certain kind of intrigue. Muscle-laden lads in striking…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Last summer, 25-year-old Joe Collinson munched on some mushroom chocolates before going on a hike with a friend. A seasoned raver, he was no stranger to psychedelics, but it was his first time mixing them with…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Greer Lankton was a groundbreaking American transgender artist, known for her eerily lifelike dolls — some modelled after celebrities like Candy Darling and Andy Warhol, while others represented versions of herself. Her work was deeply personal,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In the lower ground floor of New York’s Swiss Institute, artist Mona Filleul has built her own edifice – a world within a world within a world. Drawing on the aesthetics of “cute imagery” and “early-transition…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. On 19 December 1974, photographer Peter Hujar sat down for an interview with journalist Linda Rosenkrantz at her apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. She asked him to recount the previous day in minute detail. In…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Just a few years ago, the iPod was officially pronounced dead. “The spirit of iPod lives on,” eulogised Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior VP of Worldwide Marketing. “We’ve integrated an incredible music experience across all of our…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. When the beloved biannual London-based magazine Noon launched in 2014, its first issue was themed ‘Being Alive Now’. The guiding principle was to creatively respond to the current moment in whatever way that manifested itself. “I’ve…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Decades before she became a mythical, ubiquitous image on moodboard platforms like Pinterest and Tumblr, Jane Birkin was an artist. Despite her talents beyond fashion, the doe-eyed, wispy-fringed Londoner quickly became a visual synonym for French-girl…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Last month, I watched Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, a psychological drama about a sexual assault at Yale. It’s a conversation piece film, one that wants to poke at contemporary political anxieties: MeToo and its backlash,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Dev Hynes and Alessandro Michele go way back. While we don’t have an exact start date to their fruitful creative partnership, we do know that Hynes began working with Michele during his tenure at Gucci, scoring…