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A post on X asking for perfume recommendations to “smell like a French whore” recently went viral, garnering 50,000 likes and a flood of replies suggesting perfumes heavy with animalic notes and overpowering florals. While provocative, the idea isn’t new. The link between scent and sex work runs deep. In A Natural History of the Senses,…

To exist on social media is to engage in performance art. Mouthing to your favourite song? That’s lip-syncing. Sharing a story about your day? That’s narrative storytelling. Posting a photo dump on Instagram? That’s curating. Engaging with popular “skits” on TikTok? That’s miming. The internet has made performing parts of ourselves, and our lives, not…

For this year’s edition of the Dazed 100 – our annual list of the pioneers, changemakers, and new talent who are shaping youth culture today – we asked five listees to answer our dA-Zed quiz.  SMUT Press is a London-based queer publishing project and party platform founded in 2022 by Irish artists Jack Scollard and…

It’s been the year of K-Pop Demon Hunters, with no K-pop album even coming close to the soundtrack’s ubiquity, although Stray Kids swooped in at the year’s end to claim their seventh Billboard #1 album and set a mighty new record for the most number one albums on its chart this century. K-pop, meanwhile, an…

Wildest fashion moments of 2025 Gallery / 27 images I know that we say this every 12 months, and forgive us for sounding like a broken record, but 2025 was truly a wild ride in fashion. Yes, every year has its smattering of fierce moments, but as society continues to crumble from the inside, the…

“Being Gen Z is engendered by a feeling of hopelessness in the face of a world built and shaped before our input. The life and death of countless movements that would’ve stood opposed to colonialism, capitalism, every fucking -ism, really occurred decades before we came to be. In the wake of the ‘end of history’…

For this year’s edition of the Dazed 100 – our annual list of the pioneers, changemakers, and new talent who are shaping youth culture today – we asked five listees to answer our dA-Zed quiz.  Lucila Safdie is an Argentinian fashion designer concerned with femininity and sexuality. Drawing inspiration from literature and film, previous Safdie…

Sigrid x DHL Fast-Track Gallery / 9 images There is a familiar route to meeting your idols. You save up, travel and queue for hours, only to walk away with a photo and five seconds of conversation that never quite scratch the surface of what you hoped for. It’s transactional rather than emotional, and often…