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. When I arrive at Aaron Esh’s East London studio, the scene is just what you’d expect three days out from a fashion show. It’s all unfolding upstairs at the Sarabande Foundation in Haggerston, the creative organisation…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. On September 8, the body of a teenage girl was discovered in an impounded Tesla registered to artist d4vd (birth name David Anthony Burke). The Los Angeles county medical examiner’s office confirmed on September 16 that…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Take a break from scrolling, and let these zines take you to places the algorithm wouldn’t know to. Fall into the mischievous risograph world of Estevan Ester’s All City Dreamz, stumble through the woozy states of…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Some albums arrive with a manifesto, bold and deliberate. Others, like English Teacher’s 2024 debut album This Could Be Texas, find their identity almost by accident, pieced together from fragments of different times, voices, and moods…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Over a decade ago, artist and activist Michelle Tylicki says she found herself in an open-cast coal mine, alongside a few thousand climate activists who had decided to shut the extractivist site down. It’s here, she…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Sally Rooney wasn’t able to travel to the UK to collect a literary prize this week because, if she did, she faced the threat of arrest, according to a statement read by her editor. Last month,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In the mid-90s, the long-awaited arrival of the information superhighway promised to transform the lives of people all over the world.  Though the average desktop hard drive stored just 500MB of data, and search engines like…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Welcome to the Fashion Week Photo Diary, a series where local photographers document the faces, places and parties surrounding their city’s catwalk shows. Fashion people want you to believe that fashion week is all about the…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “This is more than just a music project,” presenter and host Lea Ogunlami tells us on our first night in Cavan, Ireland. “Get ready to listen, learn, experiment and step outside your comfort zone. Welcome to…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. When Chinese photographer Trunk Xu first fell in love with street photography, he says the magic was in it being a stolen moment, with the subject usually unaware their photo was being taken. Today, everyone is…