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. “The fun thing that I really like about K-pop is the kind of relationship between artist and fans and creating a different concert experience that I personally love”, Chase Infiniti tells Dazed in between takes of…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. In 2001, Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker were scouting Taiwan to brainstorm ideas for a film they could direct together. Daunted by the possibilities, the pair instead co-wrote and co-directed Take Out, a 2004 indie set…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “We must ask ourselves if we can truly fathom the disappearance of something we have never seen,” writes Elaine ML Tam in the introduction to Record, a new monograph by the Tokyo-based photographer Stefan Dotter designed…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This story is taken from the winter 2025 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here. This summer, a video of Rachel Sennott began circulating online. It captured the actor, comedian and writer in…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. She’s been meme’d, clipped, GIF’d, and posted across every corner of the web, and still the internet can’t get enough. From grainy stand-up night recordings on YouTube to indie film breakouts, Dazed Winter Issue cover star…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “I just had my Saturn Return, and at the beginning of it, it was like ‘be prepared to lose everything, change everything,’” Rachel Sennott confesses in her DA-Zed Guide to Being. “I thought ‘OK sure’, but…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Last week, on a balmy November night in Brooklyn, hundreds of people were queuing up outside the Paramount to see Geese play the last show of their Getting Killed North America tour. It’s never particularly difficult…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Embarrassingly, I started surfing lessons because it’s sexy. My self-esteem was low, and signing up I could already see it: glossy wetsuit half unzipped, salty droplets articulating the curves of my face and bikini top, my…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. This story is taken from the winter 2025 issue of Dazed, which is on sale internationally from December 5. Pre-order a copy of the magazine here. Yung Lean and Charli xcx are kindred spirits. That might…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Is it a romcom or, as Alexander Skarsgård calls it, a domcom? Either way, Pillion, the debut feature from writer-director Harry Lighton, isn’t a typical British love story, even if its central relationship develops in the…