Luisa Opalesky, Big City Nobody (2024)42 Images While Christmas is one of the biggest tourist seasons in most major cities, each year during the holidays there is a certain stillness courtesy of the temporary mass migration of city transplants returning to their hometowns. For photographer and movement director Luisa Opaleskyit was a wave of calmness […]
The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure16 Images Back in February, The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure opened at the National Portrait Gallery in London, a major study of Blackness via contemporary artists from the African diaspora. In it, there was Lubaina Himid’s painting “Le Rodeur: Exchange”, with […]
Stella Standingbear9 Images Hip-hop turned 51 this year, and it’s not often you come across something genuinely new, but that’s exactly the feeling I got watching Oglala Lakota Nation artist Stella Standingbear’s On the Radar Radio freestyle two weeks ago. Her Native heritage is woven into every pixel of the video – from the reverbed […]
Amid all the fashion chaos, fatigue and gimmicks of 2024, Miu Miu has remained a constant point of strength and stability in today’s tumultuous industry. The reigning queen of fashion Miuccia Prada proved that her crown isn’t slipping anytime soon, generating soaring sales figures, star-studded campaigns and instantly recognisable silhouettes. In October, it was announced […]
The Cambridge Dictionary defines the noun ‘ruckus’ as “a noisy situation or argument”. For many, the word carries negative connotations; to “make a ruckus” is to cause a disturbance. For many Black people raised in the West, often surrounded by white-majority communities and pressured to conform to white cultural norms, this is precisely what we […]
Dazed Club, our community of young creatives only launched to the world in February, but today we’re 13,000 members strong. Through the Dazed App, we’ve created a space for people right at the start of their creative careers and, increasingly, people in the thick of it too. We’re excited for a host of new initiatives […]
To mark the end of 2024, we’ve compiled a list of the best stories about dating, sex, love, and relationships published on Dazed this year. In 2024, we brought you a deep dive into why people don’t date within their social circles anymorean opinion piece on why it really is possible for men and women […]
Peter Mandelson – a ghoulish Labour adviser with the air of a man who would kidnap Paddington and sell him to a taxidermist – has been appointed as the new UK ambassador to the US. Some expert analysts have suggested that Mandelson’s pro-China and anti-Brexit positions will land him in trouble in Washington, but at […]
Green New Deal Rising, 20249 Images In case you hadn’t noticed, the climate crisis hasn’t gone away. In fact, global temperatures hit an all-time high in 2024, topping the next-hottest year on record (2023), while international communities have faced extreme weather events including hurricanes, floods, extreme heat and wildfires, costing thousands of lives and billions […]
“I’m not just talking about the Caribbean, I’m talking to the Caribbean,” says Jawara Alleynethe designer whose flag is planted at the intersection of contemporary fashion design and Caribbean futurism. In the last few years, the Caymanian-Jamaican creative has captivated the industry with his daring, forward-thinking approach to fashion, where garments are more than just […]
