London’s creatives share their guide to the city
This article is taken from the spring 2025 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here. Friends Are Always Welcomed (FAAW) is a London-based creative production company redefining…
Gary Stevenson, the former trader taking on the billionaire class
A Citibank prodigy turned whistleblower, YouTuber and ‘equitable economist’, Gary Stevenson is taking his knowledge of inequality to the masses Sat in a slouchy, dark hoodie on Zoom, fresh off…
Sophie Thatcher On ‘Yellowjackets,’ ‘Scream Queen’ Label & New Music
“I’m probably less moody than people think,” Sophie Thatcher tells me. This is the Sophie Thatcher who plays a hardened teenage castaway-turned-cannibal in Yellowjackets, cable’s gnarliest show. The same Thatcher…
A pop quiz with Takashi Murakami
This article is taken from the spring 2025 issue of Dazed. Buy a copy of the magazine here. Takashi Murakami’s painting “The 500 Arhats”, featuring a solar system, a cross-eyed…
How Balamii became the hub for London’s creative talent
As the pioneering south London radio station turns ten, founder James Browning looks back at ten landmark moments from its lifespan When Aniefiok Ekpoudom wrote his landmark chronology of rap…
We can’t look away from our split and severed selves
Body horror in The Substance18 Images There’s a scene early on in the film The Substance where Demi Moore’s character, Elisabeth Sparkle, splits down her spine to give birth to…
Ella Balinska Chases Her Bliss
Behold the jet-setting, gloriously chaotic life of Ella Balinska: The actor has just returned from a snowboarding trip in northern Japan when she logs onto Zoom in January from Los…
A brief history of artistic censorship in the US
Donald Trump’s wide-sweeping executive orders are impacting many areas of American life, including the art world. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which distributes cultural funding in the US,…
Kelly Lee Owens On ‘Dreamstate’ & Partying With Charli XCX
Kelly Lee Owens was fresh as a daisy for her Public Records set on Feb. 13 — you could barely tell she had flown in the same afternoon after DJing…
Shon Faye: ‘Our fantasies of love are a form of addiction’
Shon Faye is the face that launched a thousand projections. Depending on what you want her to be, she is not just a writer but an influencer, an activist (a…