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
2021 to infinity
Glue Skateboards • “Skating with more intention” is the MO of the ride-or-die collective queering the half-pipes of New York and beyond
Hyperpop • A new sound for a post-pandemic world
What the Hell Is Hyperpop? • It’s the most irritating, confusing and excellent musical movement of the lockdown era. But where did it come from, and how has it polarised opinion so violently? A glitch-emo scene born on SoundCloud, grown on Discord and blown up on Spotify, it’s the product of an emergent generation no longer defined by category or place
Superflat: You Got Your Memes in My Dystopia! • Twenty years after his seminal Superflat exhibition, is the world as flat as Takashi Murakami predicted? The frontiers of high and low art were crushed under the wheels of 2020, when pop culture was forced off stages and streets and on to our screens. Philippa Snow prises fact from fantasy in a new epoch of flatness
Artwork Mitrilo
Garrett Bradley • This time that matters
No Signal • New frequencies for the Black British zeitgeist
CONFUSED NEWS • * Telling it like it isn’t
Photography Elizaveta Porodina Styling Chloe Grace Press Make-up Thom Walker
Habibi Collective • What does a decolonised, decentralised future for film look like? As the industry’s tectonic plates shift, Habibi Collective is le°ading a new wave of critics, curators and alternative cinema spaces radically rethinking the screen
Photography Cruz Valdez Styling Marcus Cuffie
Thuso Mbedu • Barry Jenkins’ new breakout star, as interpreted by five young photographers from LA’s Black Image Center: the collective non-profit and resource empowering Black image-makers’ futures
Lancey Foux • “I need more.” Rhymes and riddles out of motorcycle emptiness
Gossip Girl • + cult critic Janet Malcolm on the Cecily von Ziegesar books
Greetings, Upper East Siders. It’s been forever, but good gossip comes to those who wait
In 2008, cultural critic Janet Malcolm read the Gossip Girl books by Cecily von Ziegesar. Here’s what she had to say...
GOSSIP IN THE DMS • Our favourite 00s-obsessed Instagram accounts put their burning questions to the new cast
Manhattan, 2035
Indya Moore • If you could ask Indya Moore anything, what would it be? Friends, collaborators and famous fans pose their burning questions
Photography Alexandra Leese Styling Raphael Hirsch
Photography Senta Simond Styling Agata Belcen
Photography Alice Neale Styling lsabelle Sayer
Photography Marili Andre Styling Chloe Grace Press
Photography Hanna Moon
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