“There’s no intrinsic value to hair,” says Elizabeth L Block, the art historian and senior book editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “It’s a physical matter that does not stay on our heads forever.” Block’s new book is dedicated to exploring the meaning of hair in post-Civil War America [...]

In May of 2019, I was on a plane from Trieste to London, returning from the 17th annual ITS event spotlighting emerging designers. Sitting next to me was British-Nigerian designer Tolu Coker, who had won the year prior and returned to exhibit new work. Speaking for most of the two-hour [...]

Late Monday evening, on the final day of London Fashion Week, a tiny group of friends, family and press descended on Clapton in Hackney for a special kind of fashion event. This wasn’t some cavernous warehouse or grand ballroom, but an altogether more personal kind of space for the final [...]

Autumn and winter have much fewer consolations than spring and summer. Apart from wearing big coats, one of the only nice things about the nights drawing in is that it feels more conducive to reading books.  Accordingly, the Dazed team have suggested some new and upcoming books they’ve read and [...]

“She likes to document and she’s generous, she admires her subjects,” says photographer and filmmaker Sebastián Faena, characterising the style of his close friend and fellow Argentinian, the photographer Sofia Malamute. “[The book] was initially his idea and he is also referring to the sarcasm of his vanity. Which I [...]

California content creator Taylor Mazza first used ChatGPT during her last semester of college around a year and a half ago. After a few months of using it for birth chart readings, she opened up to the chatbot about some personal issues. From that moment on, ChatGPT became her therapist. [...]