Oscar Boyson knew he was making a risky film. In late 2022, he and a journalist, Ricky Camilleri, started writing a screenplay inspired by a revelation from the Uvalde school shooting in May that year. On the morning that 18-year-old Salvador Ramos killed 21 people, he messaged a 15-year-old girl from another country about his murderous intentions. In the aftermath, the girl, who had never met Ramos, received online vitriol for her inaction. In Germany, she was later prosecuted for nothellip; read more raquo;

There are few better reminders of our free will than seeing a group of people on roller skates, whizzing through the city with a bluetooth speaker and a sense of unbridled joy. That might be why roller skating has become one of the most popular answers to the desperate lack of third spaces over the past few years. In London, one collective in particular is prioritising community... but the story goes way beyond just bringing people together. Founded by Australianhellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (5 images)nbsp;

Archives are the fashion industry’s best kept secret. In every fashion capital, you will discover an archive that provides a wealth of inspiration for all your favourite designers. In London, we have The Contemporary Wardrobe, a vast subculture archive that frequently loans pieces to designers and stylists. In Paris, there’s spots like Passage –hellip; read more raquo;

With the SS27 fashion season firmly in the rear view mirror, now is the time to take stock of over 400 new collections we’ve seen across the Big Four cities (yes, that number is correct). This season, designers from across the spectrum ramped up the sex appeal, because, for an industry designed to sell clothes, what sells better than sex? Elsewhere, snakes slithered all over the catwalks, headwear got even freakier and bras popped out ofhellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (30 images)nbsp;

People are always speaking about the state of youth culture on behalf of young Americans. Are they having sex anymore? Are they addicted to their phones? Do they even go out anymore? (Spoiler alert: yes.) But young people across the US are not a monolith. If you are Gen Z and based in America, we want to hear what’s happening in your state directly from _you_. Introducing: read more raquo;

_Welcome to the Fashion Week Photo Diary, a series where photographers document the faces, places and parties surrounding global catwalk shows. Discover the archive_ _here_ _._ Paris Fashion Week SS27 has come and gone, and if you’re reading this with a faint ringing in your ears (and remnants of glitter on your collar) you were probably there, and you probably had a great time. While the runways did theirhellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (44 images)nbsp;

Every time I open up TikTok at the moment, I am met with the same song: “40’s” by masked rapper Kilo Kent. Be it fans lip-syncing, social media ‘journalists’ branding him ‘next up’, or his own anonymised promo videos, the track is inescapable. Granted, it’s a banger – the exact sort of hooky, super-produced trap-pop record that would fit right in on any _FIFA_ soundtrack of thehellip; read more raquo;

Congratulations. You’ve made it. You’ve completed the final pitstop of the SS27 season, and Paris Fashion Week has been one hell of a ride. Matières Fécales grabbed our attention with its provocative celebration of _The Ninety Nine Percent_ , turning Place de la République into a manifesto-driven runway show. Elsewhere, Anthony Vaccarello read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (36 images)nbsp;

On a damp Sunday night, October 4, Lower Manhattan’s Bowery Ballroom was transformed into a teen girl’s bedroom – well, sort of. The venue’s main area was cast in a warm pink glow, with star-shaped garlands draped around the balcony and zine-making booths, friendship bracelet-making stations and tables selling T-shirts with slogans like “rockstar in training” downstairs. But what were the hordes of attendees leaving their actual bedrooms for? The answer was read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (9 images)nbsp;

Some 250,000 students, teachers, and parents took to streets across France yesterday, in one of the country’s biggest demonstrations in recent history. By the end of the day, a reported 500 people had been arrested for protesting poor conditions, lack of investment and social inequality in French schools. This adds up to more than 6,000 arrests since this wave of protests began. Interior minister Laurent Nuñez read more raquo;

I’m scrolling through TikTok when I see a sombr fan video. “I need to experience this at least once in my life,” reads the text over a clip of the artist performing, interspersed with shots of emotional fans. But upon closer inspection, it’s unclear whether the video was _really_ posted by a bona fide fan: thehellip; read more raquo;

As a child, Russian photographer Elizaveta Porodina had one recurring dream. In her sleep, she would visit the same glittering violet hillside, and when she climbed it, a hidden world revealed itself, inhabited by eerie mutated beings, oddly shaped animals and people with intensely purple eyes. “It had horrifying aspects, but strangely, it also felt like home,” she says. “Almost like somewhere I had lived before.” It’s this recurring dream that shaped thehellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (7 images)nbsp;

The idea for Laura and Deanna Fanning’s latest Kiko Kostadinov collection was actually conceived four years ago, in 2022, when the designers visited a Bordeaux retrospective for the multi-disciplinary artist Nanda Vigo. Vigo is best known for _Cronotopo_ , a series of cuboid constructions made from steel and fluted glass, with neon strip tubes emitting light from their insides; her work exploreshellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (24 images)nbsp;

The SS27 shows have caused a schism within the beauty industry. While some fashion houses embraced high-shine clean girl glamour, others were unafraid to bring the drama. In Milan, make-up artist Sam Visser set Instagram ablaze with his “super sexy pop” look, which featured heavy smokey black eyeliner that was blended into a wash of colourful eyeshadow. Then, Diesel debuted an equally viral smudged-out red lipstick look by Inge Grognard that had models lookinghellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (12 images)nbsp;

In January 2005, Elvis Presley claimed the UK Official Single Chart’s 1,000th No 1 single with “One Night,” nearly 28 years after his death. Shrewd promotion by his label had encouraged collectors to buy limited-edition reissues of his hits on CD and vinyl. Digital downloads had overtaken physical singles in weekly UK sales the previous month, and Apple read more raquo;

Calling all JISOO fans: Dazed and Salomon have come together to make something you are going to want to get your hands on. For their new campaign, _In the Open,_ we partnered with the brand and the pop star to create a limited-edition zine that celebrates JISOO’s world and winter in South Korea, from its mountains and forests to the buzzing streets of Seoul. Today, the line between technical gear and fashion has never been blurrier, and trailhellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (6 images)nbsp;

Often, in the fast-moving world of fashion, elaborate custom looks are worn once then unceremoniously dumped, with stars and stylists moving on to the next designer on the rail. Except, of course, if you’re Zendaya. This evening (October 6), as the US actor made her way to the Louvre, crossing the cobblestones of the Cour Carrée to Louis Vuitton’s latest show, she cut a somewhathellip; read more raquo;

“None of these words are in the Bible”: this popular meme-y catchphrase is usually invoked whenever a post on social media is ridiculously heavy on Gen Z slang or internet lore (eg: “the yassifyhellip; read more raquo;

_The Dazed Beauty Community is our ever-expanding encyclopaedia of creatives and emerging talent from across the world redefining how we think about beauty. Discover them_ _here_ _._ “Unorthodox, glamorous and camp,” is how Kiersten Harvey describes her approach to make-up. Better known as Skreem, the 24-year-old make-up artist’s work is recognisable for its detailed lip looks and brightlyhellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (9 images)nbsp;

There’s a magic to Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel. In the fashion world, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who’s critical of his work – everyone who attends his shows leaves gushing, in a frenzy over the bags, shoes, silhouettes and soundtrack. Speaking of which, for the Belgian designer’s third ready-to-wear collection,hellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (83 images)nbsp;

From the Brazilian baile funk edits underscoring trending TikTok dance challenges to ubiquitous baby tees emblazoned with the Brazilian flag across the chest, my FYP has a Brazil obsession – and nowhere is this more prevalent than in the digital erotic economy. Here, OnlyFans creators like Sophie Rain, Aishah Sofey andread more raquo;

Across three summers in the 2010s, tens of thousands of people gathered in Berlin to attend a festival headlined by names including FKA twigs, M.I.A, Virgil Abloh, and a clutch of local stars. Put together by Zalando, its name was Breadamp;amp;Butter, and it wasn’t just about the music: fashion, film, and cutting-edge digital cultures also took the stage. Now, Zalando is building on the ideas at thehellip; read more raquo;

Few games have been as highly anticipated as _Grand Theft Auto VI_ – so it’s little wonder that fans are already poring over the details confirmed about the forthcoming release. Last month, Rockstar Games revealed that in the new game, you can pursue a romantic relationship with either Lucia or Jason (depending on whose perspective you’re playing from). If you so choose, you can help the couple’s relationship flourish by spending time together outsidehellip; read more raquo;

Forward-thinking fashion is nothing new at Mugler. In fact, in the brand’s early days, Thierry Mugler was a pioneer of futurism, dressing models in cyborgian looks long before it was popular to do so. “I dreamed of creating another world, to my scale. One that was my own,” the late French designer read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (15 images)nbsp;

Apologies for the reminder of this low point in humanity, but while Drake was going viral for rizzing up and barking at alt e-girl Pinkchyu and the internet was bickering over whether she qualified as a true goth, I was instantly captivated by her pointy teeth. From _The Vampire Lestat_ ’shellip; read more raquo;

For photographer Stanley Stellar, a typical Sunday in New York in the 1970s involved walking the length of Christopher Street towards the West Side Highway, squeezing through a hole in the fence and descending into the crumbling piers along the Hudson River. Abandoned after the decline of maritime cargo transport in Manhattan and largely neglected by the authorities, this landscape of barbed wire andhellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (15 images)nbsp;

GDFL Brassband, booked as a surprise act, are running late at Mirror World in Brussels. The Rotterdam-based Surinamese marching band are due to play while walking through the crowd between two late-night performances. For Nyege Nyege co-founder Derek Debru, the delay illustrates what happens when the Ugandan festival brings its approach to Europe. Wherehellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (14 images)nbsp;

You’d be hard pressed to find a single cliché in Samantha Josephs’ debut novel, _Carrying_. One sentence reads: “Her heart drops to her surgically-constructed vagina”. Another: “You’re too cunt to die”. For the author, this was entirely the point. On the phone, she tells me she approaches crafting a sentence similarly to Ocean Vuong, who believes writers should aim to write sentences the human species has never encountered. Withhellip; read more raquo;

Like the Supreme Court, the White House and other prestigious institutions, top-tier universities are infamous for allowing men accused of rape to read more raquo;

Junya Watanabe has been having a lot of fun recently. Last season, the Japanese designer created dresses from shells, stuffed animals and motorcyclist protective gear. This season, meanwhile, he kicked off Paris Fashion Week’s SS27 Japan day (the unofficial day each season when avant-garde Japanese designers, including Watanabe, Rei Kawakubo’s Comme des Garçons and Noir Kei Ninomiya, all present their collections), with a show that eruptedhellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (16 images)nbsp;

Alessandro Michele really likes Troye Sivan’s new song “Party”. The track, which came out two weeks ago and samples Madonna’s “Music”, played on loop at this afternoon’s Valentino SS27 show. If you haven’t heard it yet, the song features Sivanhellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (11 images)nbsp;

In last season’s show notes – which, for Comme des Garçons, typically arrive as a short, elusive sentence or singular word – designer Rei Kawakubo announced her affinity for creating in black. “I have come to realise that, after all, black is the colour for me,” she explained, referencing the brand’s corresponding read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (23 images)nbsp;

For creative director Kei Ninomiya, fashion seems to be less about everyday clothes and more about creating experimental art that gets people thinking. In fact, back at his AW25 show, the Japanese designer assured guests that it was okay if the collection was “hard to understand”, as long as it sparked some ideas. This season was nohellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (24 images)nbsp;

It’s Miu Miu day! Which means there are only three days left of Paris Fashion Week’s SS27 season. For today’s show, the Italian brand returned to its usual spot inside the Palais d’Iéna, where the floor had been turned a deep purple and covered in white lines, suspiciously like a tennis court. The sporty setting started to make more sense when the first look emerged: a plaid blazer andhellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (9 images)nbsp;

Serving looks during a heatwave can be difficult. That’s why, for SS27, Vivienne Westwood creative director Andreas Kronthaler set out to question what dressing could look like amid rising temperatures and climate change (a topic we recently explored ourselves through this feature on read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (16 images)nbsp;

It was a serene start to the final weekend of fashion month. Celine eased us into Saturday morning, inviting guests to take their seats inside a calming white-walled, thatched roof hut. Erected inside Paris’ Musée des Archives Nationales, it was the type of beach club-style lodge you might find on the shores of Mykonos, Hydra or Santorini. Of course, as soon as SZA arrived, we were widehellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (10 images)nbsp;

Stone is the foundation of Rick Owens’ world. It’s in his craggy, geological silhouettes and his palette of chalk, dust and coal; in the hulking, brutalist forms of his showrooms or the concrete courtyard at his Palais de Tokyo shows. For SS27, Owens is going back to those foundations, excavating the material at the heart of his work for a collection simply titled _Stone_. Returning to the Palais yesterday afternoon (October 1), thehellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (26 images)nbsp;

Moisturiser can work miracles. There are few better feelings in the world than stepping out the shower, clean as a whistle, and lathering your body in a thick cream. Instantly, you feel the hydration soaking into your skin, smoothing out any bumps and giving you a natural glow. It was this feeling of being freshly-moisturised that designers Cosima Gadient and Christa Bösch were attempting to capture yesterday (Oct 2), during their read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (29 images)nbsp;

Global girl group Katseye started as six. Then earlier this year, one member, Manon Bannerman, announced she’d be taking a temporary hiatus from the band to focus on her own wellbeing. A few months later, in August, the group’s leader and main vocalist Sophia Laforteza also announced a hiatus, like Manon, to focus on her mental health and wellness. Sincehellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (11 images)nbsp;

_Grace McGrade is an intuitive astrologer based in Los Angeles. She is the head astrologer of the app Psyche. Her sessions include birth chart readings, transits, energetic clearings, and psychic consultations. For more astrology, read her guide torising signs and _ read more raquo;

Technical outdoor clothing is not normally associated with precision and tailoring. But released this week, AIGLE by Setchu is the capsule collection that draws inspiration from where the city meets the wild, suggesting that a garment’s place is never fixed. A cape transforms into a parka, a trench opens, folds and reconfigures itself, and materials prioritise utility and craft in equal measure. This new capsule collection sees the French outdoor label AIGLE joinhellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (15 images)nbsp;

Born in Lahore and based in New York, artist Salman Toor is known for his evocative depictions of queer life. His fictional scenes are rooted in his own experiences, centring young, queer South Asian men in the throes of love, intimacy and alienation. This October, 19 of Toor’s works come together for _Salman Toor: Someone Like You_ at the Courtauld Gallery. Here, we’re taken to dimly lit bars,hellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (11 images)nbsp;

At Cornell University in 2024, a female student, identified in court documents as Jane Doe, accused seven young men in the fraternity Chi Phi of drugging and gang-raping her. The men denied wrongdoing during Cornell’s investigation, maintaining that the sexual activity was consensual; the allegations are now the subject of a criminal investigation. Some of these men, according to reports, were offered the opportunity to mitigate their punishment by writinghellip; read more raquo;

With _Birdman_ and _The Revenant_ , Alejandro G Iñárritu is the only living filmmaker to have won the Oscar for Best Director two years in a row. He’s also the only artist, it seems, with the clout and audacity to make _Digger_ , an aggressively strange, expensive, star-studded film that’s hard to explain if you’ve only seen the trailer. Somehow, though, _Digger_ is even trickier to put into words when you’ve watched the entire film twicehellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (10 images)nbsp;

Fashion has long taken inspiration from the sexual underground, but this season, designers across the board seemed to have been more swept up than usual in libidinal energy. At Milan Fashion Week, Glenn Martens’ turned his read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (36 images)nbsp;

1. **THE TREND:** Bedazzled, whimsical nails that are embellished or infused with gold, diamonds and gemstones 2. **WHO’S DOING IT?** Margot Robbie, Alysa Liu, Rosé, Serena Williams, Mellerio, the world’s oldest jewellery house 3. **HOW CAN I GET IT?** Spend thousands on 18-karat gold nail ornaments, or go DIY and raid your jewellery box! From pearls and rhinestones to chains, anything goes The clean girlhellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (12 images)nbsp;

While AW26 at Dries Van Noten looked to schools as a source of inspiration, the SS27 season saw Julian Klausner take to the cinema. “An actress, after a day on set,hellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (30 images)nbsp;

**Fakemink Archive: Why artists are running their own Spotify burner accounts** **‘Playuncle Farti’: The strange world of Spotify burner accounts** Lore is everything in music right now. Artists announce their albums through a series of cryptic posts on Instagram, others run secretive finsta accounts like Kendrick Lamar’shellip; read more raquo;

From influencers to A-listers to regular Joes, everyone wants to go to a Schiaparelli show. But it was the American rapper JT who managed to manifest a front-row seat, nine months before the maison’s SS27 catwalk. “Who wouldn’t want to go? Yes, I want to go to a Schiaparelli show!” the Miami rap starhellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (52 images)nbsp;

According to my Spotify Wrapped last year, I listened to music for 104,762 minutes in 2025. That equates to about 4.8 hours of music every day. Second only to my phone, my headphones are the device I use most often in daily life. I wear them on the train, in shops, on walks, at the gym, while getting ready at home, while I cook, even to play rain sounds as I try to fall asleep. Just like pretty much everyone else, myhellip; read more raquo;