Who is allowed to smell bad?

2 May

If you look at what’s trending among perfume connoisseurs, it would seem that people no longer want to smell good. What people are seeking instead is the strange, the avant-garde, or to be a little bit stinky. Perfume enthusiasts are favouring the strange over the fresh, with brands like Marlou coming into their own with animalic scents meant to recall bodily odours and sensual encounters like the somewhat infamous Ambilux. There’s been a move towards metallic fragrance notes from niche to mainstream brands, with some consumers craving a cyborgian scent-cloud. Niche perfume house Toskovat rocketed to fame with their unsettling scents and seemingly wild fragrance notes (credit cards and priests’ clothes, anyone?). They are best known for their scent Inexcusable Evil,...

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2 May

Sirena Warren shares her 2026 beauty affirmations

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Sirena Warren shares her 2026 beauty affirmations

Read more it-girl beauty affirmations here. Sirena Warren is a 24-year-old actress and model from Los Angeles. You might know her from 2hollis’ “crush” music video and the short film Angels. “I act, hopefully soon I’ll get roles that aren’t just the unhinged mean girl archetype,“ she tells Dazed. “I also do what basically every girl on the planet does… take photos and model.” Below, she gives Dazed her 2025 beauty recap, and shares her affirmations for the year ahead. Sirena Warren: It’s energy. Some people just have a presence. I’m way more drawn to someone’s aura than their appearance, and usually if your energy is good, you look good. Sirena Warren: I use a very sharpened black pencil eyeliner in my waterlines,...

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1 May

‘Tattoo couture’: The designer turning fashion history into body

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‘Tattoo couture’: The designer turning fashion history into body

It’s been a busy year for 27-year-old designer and tattoo artist Laura ter Veer, AKA Star Bunni, as she’s known on social media. In January, she graduated from the Amsterdam Fashion Institute, where she spent six years studying fashion and textiles. She moved to Paris soon after and landed a job at Margiela as a textile assistant, before leaving the role just a few months to focus on tattooing full-time. With the help of social media, Star Bunni is booked and busy for the foreseeable future. Why? Because she’s turning rare pieces from fashion’s most treasured archives into permanent body art. Can’t afford or don’t have access to vintage Margiela, McQueen or Galliano? No problem: this tattoo artist will recreate it...

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28 Apr

Jewel Yang’s photos turn the female body into a

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Jewel Yang’s photos turn the female body into a

Jewel Yang, Genesis VanishingGallery / 10 images Jewel Yang experienced a sacred moment while painting a friend’s pregnant stomach. Unlike her usual work, doing make-up for Yueqi Qi and Oscar Ouyang runway shows or Dazed cover shoots, Yang felt the tension: “Her belly was hard, resistant and elastic, making it very easy to paint,” the 28-year-old make-up artist and Dazed 100 alumni says. “I tried to be very careful with my brush strokes.” A shy, sleeping angel was etched onto the smoothly domed belly, divine iconography unfurling with new life on a human body. Religious symbols, and the weight that they carry, had been tugging at Yang’s interest for a while. “I once had someone unfollow me because I wore a skirt with...

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