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. Two queens walked into a bar – in this case, a Halloween gala. The midriff-barring green floral dress immediately signposted Jennifer Lopez, who was walking arm-in-arm with a punk rock goth in a black shirt which…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. From its launch in 1990 to its closure in 2013, The Web – a bar at the corner of Madison Avenue and East 58th Street – was at the heart of New York’s Asian gay community,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. When I woke up this morning, and the morning before that, I held my phone up to a small grey square on the top right corner of my fridge that reads “Brick”. My phone vibrated ever…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The Dazed Beauty Community is our ever-expanding encyclopaedia of creatives and emerging talent from across the world who are redefining the way we think about beauty. Discover them here. Siberian-born, self-taught make-up artist Dina is a…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Ludovic de Saint Sernin has achieved a lot in the past 10 years. In 2017, he launched his own eponymous brand, quickly gaining a reputation for his smoking hot shows and barely there designs. Five years…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. A few weeks back, Vogue published an article titled ‘Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?’. In the piece, writer Chanté Joseph argues that in recent years being single has become “more of a flex” than being…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Often, when a creative director exits a brand, they’ll leave us with a parting gift. When Jonathan Anderson left Loewe, his last goodbye was one final campaign featuring <ahellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery (23 images)nbsp;…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. With tracks fluent in strings and synths, you would think Norwegian duo Smerz were born reading sheet music and raised on lullabies of arpeggios, but when asked if they play many instruments, Henriette Motzfeldt and Catharina…

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 taken from the autumn 2025 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here. Few writers have shaken up contemporary culture like Chris Kraus. Her cult classic I Love Dick (1997) – part…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “Vivienne Westwood, the Sex Pistols, Seven Stars, coffee with milk and strawberry cake. And Ren flowers. Nana’s favorite things never change.” This iconic line from Ai Yazawa’s NANA sparked a revolution in the early 00s for…