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  • This film is an intimate portrait of Black hair and identity

    This film is an intimate portrait of Black hair and identity

    Crusts, 2025 Gallery / 9 images Some of the first things I remember ever hearing about my hair were extremely negative. “Your hair is very coarse and rough,” a hairdresser told me when I was eight or nine years old. Her words, flippantly spoken in frustration as she struggled to detangle my hair before braiding,…

  • What can extinct, 40,000-year-old Neanderthals teach us about being human?

    What can extinct, 40,000-year-old Neanderthals teach us about being human?

    “I’ve been thinking about Neanderthals a lot,” said the musician Grimes in a recent podcast interview. The statement echoed imagery in her new music video, “Artificial Angels”, as well as an X post she made earlier this year: “I want to know the Neanderthals so badly, with every fiber of my soul. God, I think…

  • Trail shoe to fashion trailblazer: the rise of Salomon’s ACS PRO

    Trail shoe to fashion trailblazer: the rise of Salomon’s ACS PRO

    Salomon ACS PRO 20 year anniversary campaign Gallery / 3 images There’s a common belief that fashion trends repeat themselves every 20 years, and the first half of the 2020s has only solidified that theory. So far, nostalgic 00s style has been the defining aesthetic of the decade – we’ve seen the resurrection of low-waisted…

  • Catherine Opie on the story of her legendary Dyke Deck

    Catherine Opie on the story of her legendary Dyke Deck

    Catherine Opie, Dyke Deck Gallery / 14 images Catherine Opie is punk: unwavering in her commitment to community, fearless in her creative process and relentless in her pursuit to speak truth to power. “I’ve always been invested in creating space for people,” she tells Dazed. “It’s a critical time right now to speak up!” Opie…

  • Art shows to leave the house for in December 2025

    Art shows to leave the house for in December 2025

    The year might be winding down, but the art world certainly isn’t. Across London, Milan, Amsterdam, New York and Rotterdam, artists are turning toward questions that feel both intimate and planetary: how we remember, how we resist, how we build worlds inside and beyond the ones we have. From gardens as sites of care and…

  • The only tracks you need to hear from November 2025

    The only tracks you need to hear from November 2025

    If we’re talking music in November, there’s no way of avoiding it: Rosalía’s Lux is incredible. You’ve read the thinkpieces, you already know the stats – it features lyrics in 13 different languages, it was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, it’s what Rosalía calls a “human album”: all that jazz. But what’s really powerful…

  • Inside the world of Amore, Spain’s latest rising star

    Inside the world of Amore, Spain’s latest rising star

    This article is partly taken from the autumn 2025 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here. Most people don’t remember their early years, but for Madrid-based singer AMORE, her musical destiny began in nursery. While other toddlers napped or cried, AMORE hummed Spanish melodies, signalling her deep connection to music from an early…

  • Lella Fadda is blazing a trail in the Egyptian music scene

    Lella Fadda is blazing a trail in the Egyptian music scene

    This article is partly taken from the autumn 2025 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here. Earlier this year, a video came across my explore page of a girl performing on Colours Studios’ live show that sort of stopped me in my tracks. A few days later, I saw the video again on…

  • How tech-inspired SFX is revealing our anxieties about a cybernetic future

    How tech-inspired SFX is revealing our anxieties about a cybernetic future

    AI boyfriends, iPad babies, and Sabrina CarpenterFortnite skins: everywhere you look, the boundaries between technology and the human body are fraying. As we plug in, log on, and upload, our physical selves feel increasingly secondary to the digital versions we present online. This fear of bodily displacement is now being expressed in SFX, a medium…

  • In pictures: 2hollis’s London show brought out the city’s best dressed

    In pictures: 2hollis’s London show brought out the city’s best dressed

    In pictures: The best looks from 2hollis’s London gig Gallery / 46 images You know you’ve made it when the kids at your gig come dressed up as you. That’s what 2hollis experienced this week in London, when fans arrived at Brixton Academy cosplaying as the 21-year-old Chicago native. After making a name for himself…