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. It’s no secret that social media, and Instagram in particular, has been a frontier for people to explore their creativity. That’s why this October, the platform launched ‘Instagram Rings’, a new award for creators designed to…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Now that it’s over, and the dust has finally settled on Paris Fashion Week, we’ll remember SS26 as a historic season for designer debuts. Sure, it might have felt like an intense and incessant stream of…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Sometimes, periods of enforced inactivity with other people – time spent waiting around; the in-between moments – can be unexpectedly transformative. For Nick Offord, these encounters are the basis of his second monograph, No Shows –…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Vivienne Westwood’s passing in 2023 left a gaping hole in fashion – it was hard to believe that such a formidable force was no longer with us. A fearless campaigner who raised awareness on issues including…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. “I mean the elephant in the room is that me and MIKE are pretty similar,” Earl Sweatshirt tells Dazed over video call. MIKE, who is sitting next to him, immediately bursts into a fit of laughter…

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 partly taken from the autumn 2025 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here. Erika de Casier is a worldbuilder. The singer, songwriter and producer makes music that takes your hand and…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. On Sunday night, the bright lights of London’s cultural scene gathered at 180 Studios for a private dinner to celebrate the launch of Paradigm Shift: new dimensions in moving image, a major new exhibition curated by Jefferson…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. Scroll through Instagram account Capelli and you’ll find yourself tangled in an abundance of ringlets, braids and waves of hair. The account has become an archive of mesmerising hairstyles – most impossibly long or tied together…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. On any given night in Berlin, the city is alive and thumping as basslines dribble out of basement venues and side street winebars. Last week, on October 9, it was no exception, as some 300 guests…

Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. The rumours are true: Maria Grazia Chiuri is taking over as creative director of Fendi. The news comes two weeks after its former creative director Silvia Venturini Fendi – a third-generation designer of the Fendi family…