Dazed and Confused Magazine

New year, new issue! Plus new talent, new faces and a feeling that's ripe with hope. At least, that's how I feel at the top of the year: hopeful. One of my New Year's resolutions was to continue as we always have here at Dazed – championing young peo

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the youth they didn't need third spaces. In the post-austerity, post-Covid world we inhabit, we've witnessed community centres collapse and hangout spots dissipate in the name of cost-effective

You can spend whole days lost in the salt mines of Portal 2. In bedrooms across the world, when the first-person platformer launched in the early 2010s, millions of gamers roamed mazes of destroyed office space, reverberating boiler rooms and chemica

“This is me if you even care,” the neat white Sans Serif text, contained within Instagram's signature 1080x1080-pixel square block, declared. Just underneath was a big, juicy, vinegar-dripping green gherkin, and around its middle, a pale, powderpuff-

Founded by Surf Allah, pictured above, to “make dance music Black again” in 2017, Half Moon has become one of NYC's favourite underground radio stations. A gateway for listeners to discover unknown artists, Half Moon is an ever-growing ecosystem of b

When a member of Brazy's team emailed me to push back our scheduled interview by an hour – citing ‘a work thing’ – I assumed it was something music-related. Wardrobe emergency? Clashing performance times? Label demands? When Brazy and I get on the re

Bb Trickz loves Spain. She's proud to hail from Barcelona and loved growing up in one of the world's greatest party cities. She has fond memories of her (still recent) teenage years in the coastal city: making cash as a child model or, later, as a ba

Bonding over a shared interest in fetishes, furries and sci-fi art, Londonbased artist duo Louis Blue Newby and Laila Majid have built a collaborative, interdisciplinary practice that both celebrates and interrogates our private obsessions, scrolling

In the post-Christmas, pre-New Year haze of 2023, London is quiet. As my Uber driver zooms through the city, a wave of unmitigated dullness is palpable. Streets are empty, traffic is lacking and the collective hangover of the holiday season has taken

Late May in Ho Chi Minh City. The night is hot, the air thick with unfallen rain. At the end of a narrow alley in the Binh Thanh district, surrounded by rippling canals, lies Arcan, a club central to Vietnam's underground scene that plays host to rau

Dutch head-turner Mona Tougaard has walked for practically every big name you can think of, from Chanel to Dior, Prada and beyond. (I can't list them all, I would run out of word count…) Slinking down the runway like she's been doing it from birth, T

Lyas A self-proclaimed proponent of matching your fashion-show outfit with the cigarettes you're smoking, TikTok fashionista and comedian Elias Medini – AKA Lyas – isn't afraid to be a voice of the people. More recently, he proclaimed himself to be i

Jaguars stalk in silence. Their spotted coats, once highly desirable in the fur industry, mimic the dappled shadows cast by broadleaves in dense rainforests, and their preference for hunting in low light allows them to move through the underbrush, an

After going viral for his On Borrowed Fabric collection, which featured six looks still attached to a roll of uncut fabric, Eden Tan found himself the recipient of the L'Oréal Young Talent Award. As shown in his collection, Tan is focused on the sust

Erick, Rain, Cairo and Niarwear vintage Converse trainers stylist's own (all worn throughout) There's a lot on Shaivonte Aician Giigeous-Alexander's mind when we meet one winter afternoon. Like many basketball titans before him, the 25-year-old Oklah

Hair MOE MUKAI, make-up SAKUR A KANAOKA, models PALO M A KEKANA, NATALIE FORTUCCI, SAM ALLEN, set design KAYCIA AINSWORTH, lighting YOAN ZDRAVKOV, styling assistants MATILDA MCERLANE, CHIARA LUDOVICA MANCINI, make-up assistant SASHA CHUDEEVA, set des

Omahyra Mota was always a chameleon. First stomping runways across the globe as the late 90s faded into the 2000s, the model was a go-to for Jean Paul Gaultier and muse to cult fashion outlier Miguel Adrover. Her appeal lay in her ability to code-swi

This was not in the script. “I can't stress how different the route I was taking was going to be,” confides a bashful and “rusty” Luther Ford, the 23-year-old acting novice who found his way on to television's grandest stage. “I was studying film pro

After stepping into the spotlight as Ra'Nell in the influential series Top Boy and opting not to continue his role in the 2019 Netflix reboot, Malcolm Kamulete has been a subject of numerous rumours about his next endeavours. What remains certain is

Self-described as the “home of alternative Asian culture”, Eastern Margins is an east and south-east Asian music collective which aims to amplify the voices of their transnational community. Diving deep into the soulful and funky, Errol and Alex Rita

Atlanta-born Precious Lee scored her first Vogue cover in 2015, landed on the New York runway in 2017, and in 2021 made history as one of the first curve models to ever walk for Versace, alongside Jill Kortleve and Alva Claire. Since that game-changi

Nowadays, you're likely to find K-Trap in the ring. Not necessarily out of some grand aspiration to moonlight as a champion boxer, but out of an appreciation for the sport's physical demands. To stick to a routine, to be nimble and light on your feet

East London-born and bred, Ashden is a producer and rapper who made his start in a hip-hop collective. Now solo, Ashden has been making music traversing everything from hip hop to Detroit house, grime and industrial. Reviving the 90s indie pop music

While the rest of us were hunched over our school desks cramming for exams, Vittoria Ceretti had a slew of runway appearances already under her belt. Discovered as a fledgling baby model aged just 14, she caught the eye of Karl Lagerfeld, who stayed

Hair LOUIS GHEWY at MA+ using ORIBE, make-up LAUREN REYNOLDS at BRYANT ARTISTS using M.A.C, model DALTON DUBOIS at MILK, set design SAMUEL OVERS at NEW SCHOOL REPRESENTS, photographic assistants RÉMI PROCUREUR, LEWIS ROBINSON, BASTIAN KNAPP, styling

Mexican multidisciplinary artist Ariette is recalling the exact moment her life changed. Commissioned to create a piece for Kendrick Lamar's appearance on Saturday Night Live in 2022, she found herself on a plane from her native Mexico to New York wi