Dazed & Confused

A trailblazer for emerging talent and proudly independent, Dazed magazine aims to set the cultural agenda, both on and offline. Founded by Jefferson Hack and Rankin in 1991, the entire archive of back issues is available for digital subscribers to Dazed. The independent British fashion, culture and arts magazine has a strong global reputation for its groundbreaking and trendsetting editorial and its support of new generations of fashion, art, literature, photography and music talent. DazedDigital.com, their online magazine, is updated daily, hosting interactive projects, extra editorial content, exclusive music and fashion film.

Dazed & Confused

BEYOND BORDERS

STARTERS • TikTok’s culinary new wave take us to foodie heaven

FEELING SCENE • From underground raves in the deep forest to secret views of Mount Fuji from the highest points of the city, a rollcall of rising creatives give us the tea on Tokyo and beyond

TIKTOK SHOP

MADELINE ARGY • Tackling Gen Z problems from the front seat of a banged-up Vauxhall Astra, Madeline Argy’s unfiltered TikTok posts are a tonic for the anxious and online. Here, she speaks out on relationship soft-launches and her first summer being ‘young, hot and free’

DON'T HATE THE PLAYERS • From Rio to São Paulo, online gaming is a way of life for millions of kids in Brazil. Now, with the world’s first favela e-sports organisation, it can be a way to make a living – and foster hope for the future among those shut out from society

DIGITAL DYSTOPIA • In the wake of Mahsa Amini’s murder by Iranian police, the revolution isn’t just being televised: it’s being deepfaked, wiretapped and surveilled by big tech, often with the help of western companies. A year after the Woman, Life, Freedom protests convulsed the country, what does the future of dissent look like in Iran?

REMADE IN HAITI • In Haiti, fast fashion meets its end game with pèpè, an accidental style made from cast-off clothing from the west. But what does it reveal about our addiction to disposable garms? And how can artists reclaim style in a country where everyday needs are not being met?

CALEB KWARTENG PRAH • Swapping dukes for bus drivers with his multimedia takes on Ghanaian working-class life, Caleb Kwarteng Prah is the painter and photographer putting an Afrocentric spin on art history

CLOSE-UP • Prompting walkouts at Cannes, Kanu Behl’s Agra leads a new wave of Indian cinema tackling taboos in society – and putting Bollywood on notice

KOKOMO CITY • Amid a new wave of transfemicides in the US, Kokomo City homes in on a small group of Black transgender sex workers holding firm in NYC and Atlanta. Here, the author of Queer Love in Colour wades in on their darkly humorous defiance, and director D Smith’s brutally honest filmmaking

HEAD OVER HEELS

SIMZ CITY • A hip-hop star ‘cut with a difffferent scissor’, Little Simz lit new fifires under British rap with her fourth album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert and its stripped-down successor, No Thank You. Drawing strength from her creative family to explore new chapters in print and on screen, the only question left to answer is: what version of herself will she be next?

This Way Up

AMAARAE • All hail the second coming of Amaarae, the Ghanaian American alté star whose red-pilled pop leaves her risk-averse peers choking in the dust

Unzipped

RIDDIM NATION • With her embrace of the queer community and insistence on female beauty inside and out, Spice’s inclusive take on dancehall brings bashment culture kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Here, the undisputed Queen of Dancehall reflflects on her wild ride to the top

BEYOND BORDERS • From early experiments in avant-flamenco to the wild sonic scrapbook of her latest record, Motomami, Rosalía is an...