Izzy Farmiloe is Group Brand Strategy Director at Dazed Studio
Femme power in a post-woke era In our 2023 Report, CTRL_SHIFT, we predicted the rise of female musicians. When we asked our audience, “Who is influential now?”, they name-checked SZA, Lana Del Ray, Taylor Swift, Caroline Polacheck, Pink Pantheress, Miley Cyrus, beabadoobee, Rina Sawayama, Björk, FKA Twigs,
This week, we brought together some of the brightest minds here at Dazed Media to gaze into their crystal balls. From the return of the iPod touch to a big city exodus, here are their wildcard predictions for the year ahead. Günseli Yalcinkaya predicts a growing offline movement Contributing Editor,
With Greg Epstein In light of Trump’s re-election and the news that Elon Musk is to lead President Donald Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency (...DOGE), this week, we spoke to Greg Epstein. A humanist chaplain at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Epstein recently
Once material opulence, now cultural relevance. We explore how luxury is evolving through the lens of Gen Z. The topic of luxury is a big and complex one. Luxury is a subjective term, a word which changes in the context of people and place, of broader society and culture. At
How the algorithm killed cool Deep into my research around subcultures, I noticed the breadth of the audience's replies to my question, 'what does subculture mean to you?'. Many of our audience associates subculture with ideas of counterculture and of being ‘cool’ and the majority of