‘Let’s chop it up, babe’: Vivian Wilson and Alex Consani go head-to-head
Vivian Wilson – Autumn 20256 Images This story is taken from the autumn 2025 issue of Dazed, which is on sale internationally from September 11. Pre-order a copy here. As…
A witch’s guide to cord cutting
“The body is a place where memory lingers, even when the spirit would let it go” – The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, trans. M.D. Herter Norton, 1949. In many…
The CSM classmates dressing Lady Gaga: ‘I am honestly speechless’
Central Saint Martins BA Fashion – Part 243 Images Lady Gaga is no stranger to wearing graduate collections. In 2014, she purchased the entire final collection of Wilson PK, the…
Mistress Dispeller is a Nathan Fielder-esque doc about cheating men
If marriage counselling or divorce proceedings sound like a chore, suspicious wives in China have an alternate method of dealing with a cheating husband. Behold, the so-called “mistress dispeller”: a…
Meet Callum Johnson-Mills, the viral A-level student who took on the BBC
Last week, a BBC reporter got more than she bargained for when what should have been a straightforward interview about A-Level results turned into a denunciation of her employers. Callum…
The refuseniks: Meet the young Israelis choosing jail over the IDF
When he was younger, Itamar Greenberg aspired to join the IDF. The 19-year-old grew up within an insular ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, and at times felt ostracised from his less…
Savages: A stop-motion thriller about eco-activism and indigenous rights
Four minutes into Savages, a French-language arthouse film supposedly for kids, a baby watches in tears as his mother is gunned down by uniformed men in broad daylight. Before the…
The UK’s new online safety laws are already a disaster
The UK’s new Online Safety Act, which was implemented on July 25, is already a disaster. There’s plenty to criticise about the stated aims of the act, which is primarily…
Bring Her Back is the most miserable horror of 2025
In the 2022 horror movie Talk to Me – which its Australian directors, Danny and Michael Philippou, described back then to Dazed as like “a big, personal, therapeutic poo” –…
11 of the best new books to read this summer
All of us have fallen prey to the occasional reading slump, but the good news is that summer is the perfect time to get your nose back into a book…