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  • The Ghosts of Gucci Past: Demna’s second collection remixes fashion history

    Gucci Pre-Fall 2026 – Generation Gucci Gallery / 58 images You know you’ve invented a visual language when your name is invoked through the slightest of aesthetic cues. Daniel Roseberry’s hammered gold accessories already have legions of copycats; Vivienne Westwood’s off-shoulder cowl necks conjure no one but her; a tweed skirt suit practically belongs to…

  • It Was Just An Accident: A banned filmmaker’s most dangerous work yet

    Before 2025, Jafar Panahi hadn’t been interviewed since 2010. The 65-year-old Iranian director is behind powerful, often darkly funny dramas like White Balloon, No Bears, and This Is Not a Film. He’s also a political figure who, in 2010, was locked up in Iran’s Evin Prison, where he was released a few months later with a ban on…

  • 7 of Chase Infiniti’s favourite K-pop songs

    Chase Infiniti – The Winter Issue 2025 Gallery / 7 images “The fun thing that I really like about K-pop is the kind of relationship between artist and fans and creating a different concert experience that I personally love”, Chase Infiniti tells Dazed in between takes of her new cover shoot. During the press run…

  • Chase Infiniti: One breakthrough after another

    Chase Infiniti – The Winter Issue 2025 Gallery / 7 images This story is taken from the winter 2025 issue of Dazed, which is on sale internationally from December 5. Pre-order a copy of the magazine here. One day in early September, Chase Infiniti was sitting in her new apartment in Chicago, surrounded by boxes…

  • Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker’s film about a struggling family in Taiwan

    Left-Handed Girl (2025) Gallery / 8 images In 2001, Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker were scouting Taiwan to brainstorm ideas for a film they could direct together. Daunted by the possibilities, the pair instead co-wrote and co-directed Take Out, a 2004 indie set in their hometown of New York. Revisiting Taipei in 2010, they came…

  • Charli xcx is now a Saint Laurent muse

    Saint Laurent SS26 Gallery / 50 images Charli xcx might be the busiest woman in show business. Recently, the British pop star dropped the trailer for her upcoming mockumentary The Moment, released two singles for the new Wuthering Heights film (of which she’s recorded the entire soundtrack), and is also somehow moonlighting as a Substack…

  • Has Substack entered its slop era?

    As a writer in New York, I couldn’t count on two hands the number of times I’ve been told to “start a Substack”. After launching in 2017, the online publishing platform has, slowly but steadily, been attracting some of the most exciting emerging and established writers of the moment. The promise to make the internet…

  • Is Substack still a space for writers and readers?

    Is Substack still a space for writers and readers?

    As a writer in New York, I couldn’t count on two hands the number of times I’ve been told to “start a Substack”. After launching in 2017, the online publishing platform has, slowly but steadily, been attracting some of the most exciting emerging and established writers of the moment. The promise to make the internet…

  • ‘It’s self-consciously cool’: Inside the chess club boom

    Pieces Chess Club 1st Birthday Gallery / 25 images It’s a Friday night in Lisbon’s Marvilla district, and there’s a queue piling up outside Pieces Chess Club – a mashup of social chess and music – for their first anniversary block party. Outside the repurposed factory that houses taco and music venue Duro de Matar,…

  • Everything you missed at Chanel’s New York subway fashion show

    Chanel Métiers d’Art 2026 Gallery / 20 images What comes to mind when you think of a New York subway station? Sweaty commuters? Questionable hygiene? That one viral video of a rat carrying a slice of pizza? It’s probably not Chanel’s Métiers d’Art show, the French maison’s annual celebration of high craft, and a “declaration…