Category: Lifestyle & Culture

This article is taken from issue 02 of Dazed MENA: In 2017, Mashrou’ Leila performed one of the best shows it has ever played before an audience of 35,000 people. It was a September night, and the air in Cairo smelled of hope. Hamed Sinno, lead singer, recalls what made this concert special: the audience was…

The last few months have seen a host of new “slurs” for AI-powered chatbots, and their most loyal users, proliferate across the internet. Whether you agree with them or not, these words (“clanker” being the most common) clearly demonstrate the scale of the backlash to artificial intelligence. But what about the other end of the…

Francesca Lake’s clothes exist along a fashion fault line, between two points of seeming contradiction. Her designs are brazenly maximalist and theatrical – voluminous bubble skirts, ruched ball gowns and dramatic headdresses have been some of Lake’s go-tos since her Central Saint Martins graduate collection in 2021. But, on the other end of the spectrum,…

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. Olly Yip’s designs are intricate, experimental and bursting with colour. Think extraterrestrial orbs, thinly veined eyeshadow in dusty violets, flashes of blue lips, and dark,hellip; read more…

For a teenager, a bedroom is a sanctuary – a place to experiment, to try on different identities until one finally fits. It was this idea of a self-contained world that inspired Adrienne Salinger’s Teenagers in Their Bedrooms, first published in 1995 as In My Room and shot in the late 80s and early 90s….

One of Netflix’s most-watched series of all time, Tim Burton’s Wednesday has finally returned for its highly anticipated season two. Along with new cast members including Lady Gaga, Billy Piper and Joanna Lumley, the show’s second season has also delivered a heavy helping of fashion moments courtesy of Jenna Ortega’s stylist, Enriquehellip; read more raquo;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View…

According to a new report, more students in England than ever are taking on paid work during term-time, and many are being forced to work over 20 hours a week just to make ends meet. Not only do students have less time to study as a result of these economic pressures, they are socialising less,…

​​Welcome to the Archive Pull, a series delving into the 30-year history of our print magazine. Here, we look back at an interview with Hussein Chalayan ahead of his first major British exhibition at the Design Museum, originally published in the February 2009 issue of Dazed amp; Confused. Hussein Chalayan is the pied piper of…

It’s been a busy few months for Spanish rapper Bb Trickz. In April, she dropped her latest album 80’z, and then she became the face of ICECREAM (an extension of Pharrell and Nigo’s

Summer is my favorite season. It’s when I’m happiest, feel my greatest, and the only time of year that makes the thrill of a fast-paced life worth it. Maybe it’s because I’m from Los Angeles and my happiness depends on warm weather, but the transition from spring to summer really does something to me, and…