The Prada Randomiser is here to splice up your skirts

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. With so much change happening in fashion right now, if there’s one brand we can rely on to remain stable and consistent, it’s Prada. This afternoon (September 25), the Italian brand delivered its SS26 womenswear collection,…

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Harris Dickinson’s Urchin is a magnetic study of life on the margins

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Harris Dickinson has always been fascinated by the elusive nature of the human mind. From playing a model using his body for survival (Triangle of Sadness) to an enigmatic intern seducing his boss (Babygirl) to a…

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Glen Luchford’s new exhibition is a ‘visual orgy’ of photography

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. From his teenage depictions of Brighton’s skateboarders to his Hitchcockian-lit 90s Prada campaigns, Glen Luchford’s raw and vivid images have come to redefine a new visual language of fashion photography over the past three decades. Now,…

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Dimes Square playwright Matthew Gasda’s latest play explores a crisis in AI

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. You could say that Matthew Gasda specialises in period pieces – that is, culture, politics, and technology have accelerated to such a fast pace that his contemporary plays have already entered the history books by the time…

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Jil Sander SS26: Simone Bellotti’s debut was an ode to minimalism

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The simplest painting in the Tate Modern is an ultramarine blue rectangle, Yves Klein’s IKB 79, painted in 1959. Famously, ‘IKB’ stands for his trademark, patented colour, International Klein Blue, and the painting at the Tate…

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People are turning to Etsy witches to manifest their dream lives

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Etsy witches have been a hot topic on the internet in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, after it transpired that the staff of Gawker’s Jezebel had asked several Etsy witches to curse the right-wing activist…

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Demna’s Gucci debut was a film premiere turned fashion show

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Since arriving on the scene in 2014 with his transgressive label Vetements, we’ve known Georgian mastermind Demna to do things a little differently. His shock defection from Balenciaga to Gucci back in March continued his penchant…

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