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. Long before the seatbelt sign dimmed on the return flight from Johannesburg to Nigeria, and before a single passenger rose to disembark, all that the 29-year-old Imo, Nigeria-born rapper and singer Blaqbonez yearned for was home….

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. There’s a film Tyler Mitchell made in 2015, while still a student at Tisch School Of The Arts, that foreshadowed much of the groundbreaking work the Atlanta-born artist was on the verge of creating. The dreamlike…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. I’m convinced NORiKO, the producer-vocalist behind POiSON GiRL FRiEND, is a time traveller. Her solo debut, 1992 EP MELTING MOMENT, blended trip-hop and dream pop at a time when Massive Attack were just a little-known band…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. As Art Basel Paris begins to take shape, the city prepares for floods of visitors during its celebration of art and culture. With the fair fast becoming a fixture in the international calendar, this third edition…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Unless you’ve been living under a rock since 1968, you know exactly what Sisley is. Founded in Paris by married couple Hubert and Isabelle d’Ornano, the iconic Benetton Group acquired the label in 1976, and took…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The irony of resurrecting Frankenstein is that you have to become Dr Frankenstein yourself in order to remake the famous tale. Director Guillermo del Toro has done exactly that, and this weekend, his two-and-half-hour reinterpretation of…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The history of Chanel and cinema dates back to the golden years of Hollywood. In the 1930s, Gabrielle Chanel, the brand’s infamous founder, was invited by the American movie producer Samuel Goldwyn to dress the stars…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. From its recent Paris runway that celebrated the humble apron, to its ongoing Women’s Tales film series, the lives and histories of women have always taken centre stage at Miu Miu. Now, the label has teamed…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. For most people, the list of the people they’ve slept with isn’t something physical – maybe a half-finished Notes app list or scattered between DMs and dating app chat logs. But for performance artist Harriet Richardson,…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Between a historically unfavourable job market, higher costs of living and a society that feels more polarised than ever, young Americans are coming of age at a time that feels far less promising than that of…