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25 Mar

Bring back celebrity fragrances! | Dazed

Bring back fantasy, escapism and sickly sweet scents! Bring back the mystery of celebrity and heart-shaped bottle caps! Reject modernity, embrace tradition! Once I was 13, I used to be invited over to my friend’s house to smell Taylor Swift’s Wonderstruck, a perfume she had received for Christmas and which I, unfortunately, had not. It wasn’t only a fragrance. It was, as per its ethereal commercial that had Swift prancing in a field, “the start of something magical”. That perfume constructed a fantasy, one with hints of vanilla and peach, that made me feel as if I could conjure up Speak Now-era Taylor Swift herself, and all I needed was a shiny purple...

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2 Feb

The longer term of heterosexuality | Dazed

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The longer term of heterosexuality | Dazed

To launch our recent Way forward for Sex series, creator Shon Faye examines the present state of heterosexuality – the way it’s been ravaged by the web, feminism and the media, and where it will possibly go within the years ahead This text is an element of our Way forward for Sex season – a series of features investigating the longer term of sex, relationships, dating, sex work and sex employee rights; tech; taboos; and the following socio-political sexual frontiers. I recently had two curious conversations at a friend’s wedding. Attempting to make small talk after the touching ceremony, a lady I didn’t know turned to me next to the salads and said, “Wasn’t...

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9 Jan

Actual Objects Dazed 100 | Dazed

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Casting your eyes over the toxic wastelands, hellfire floors and uncanny valley-avatars in Actual Objects’ expansive body of labor, you may begin to feel the perimeters of reality peeling away. Watch their speculative documentary Solstice, music video for Yves Tumor’s “Jackie”, or film Marée Noire for designer Marine Serre, and it becomes difficult to discern what has been photographed, digitally rendered or filmed. It is because the creative studio sees an inherent materiality in technology. Every project they work on, from Nike campaigns to Charli XCX tour visuals, is known to be a physical artefact, hence the name Actual Objects. The studio was co-founded...

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31 Dec

Holiday calendar: meet the Dazed Club creative community

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Holiday calendar: meet the Dazed Club creative community

From Liv Tendlarz’s surreal reimagining of Harmony Korine’s Gummo, to Ana Tanase’s beautifully irregular jewellery designs – we highlight some amazing work from our Dazed Club members This month Dazed Club has been sharing a few of our members’ work, as a highlight reel of 2022, and our gift to… ourselves. The Dazed Club Holiday Calendar is a project running for 25 days in December, celebrating club members’ work in every day emails and platforming recent voices in weekly round-ups right here. Below, try a number of the entrants, including Liv Tendlarz’s collection, inspired by one in all our favourite movies, Gummo, Ana Tanase, who makes irregular jewellery by hand, and Blanca Espinoso’s...

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