Dazed & Confused Winter 2022 (Digital)

Rifke Sadleir Rifke Sadleir sees coding as a means to make creative mischief. “In an ideal world, everything I work on would be some form of elaborate prank or joke,” says the Bristol-born digital designer and developer. Her website, imissmymates.club, started as a way for friends to play DJ sets to each other during lockdown – smoking area and all – before gaining a new lease of life as an online radio station. “It's very low-key, but I've formed some great friendships through [the project] and also learned – and forgotten – a lot of things along the way. I was so excited when I managed to get sound travelling through it I cried lol.” With DXR Zone, the digital agency she runs with Daniel Baragwanath, Sadleir can boast a client list…

Relative to the history of medicine, plastic surgery is young, plump, glowing, baby-faced, snatched. The techniques employed by today's plastic surgeons were honed in the last century, when advances in artillery left survivors of war in need of reconstructive work such as rewired jaws, sutures and skin grafts to reposition tissue and patch holes. Those surgeries brought awareness to the importance of appearance not only to the functioning of a patient's body but to that patient's overall sense of health and wellbeing; there is a proven connection between what we see in the mirror (or on the screen), how others perceive us, and how we feel about ourselves. Fast-forward to our current cultural infatuation with celebrities and influencers, the physical perfection they appear to embody and the everpresent rumours of the…

St Louis, Missouri is home to the longest outlet mall in the world. Situated just off Route 370, it was once a beacon of commerce: a multilevel metropolis of fast food and fashion chains, an antidote to the bleakness of suburban life. But, like thousands of malls across the country, decades of economic decline forced its closure in 2019. “There wasn't anything to do,” says Angel Prost, “so we stayed indoors.” She's referring to Lulu, her younger sibling and the other half of pop duo Frost Children. Together they were raised in St Louis, nicknamed by locals as the shopping outlet suburb of Missouri. But while other kids hung out at the mall, Frost Children found a new, spiritual home: the internet. Speaking over Zoom from their shared apartment in Ridgewood,…

Jackline wears long-sleeved t-shirt worn underneath stylist's own, boxer shorts PICKNWEIGHT…

“Temilade, what did you add in your stew?” There's a common theme to the online mystique surrounding Tems, the 27-year-old artist who has spent the last few years collecting industry accolades, big-hitter features and international fandoms like infinity stones. “I need Tems’ prayer,” is another popular online response when the latest news from the Lagos, Nigeria native spreads across Diasporic Twitter. And having been tapped for collaborations by a who's-who of the world's biggest artists – Beyoncé, Drake, Future, Wizkid, Justin Bieber, Khalid and most recently Rihanna – it's no wonder that the masses are in awe of one of our generation's fastest-rising stars. Sitting across from me in a private lounge at 180 Strand, Tems tends to agree that her path has been peppered with a certain divine providence, smiling…

Taylor Russell is the blossoming talent whose acting ‘secrets’ first hooked us in the devastating family epic Waves, which so impressed Luca Guadagnino he quietly built his new him, Bones and All, around her. Bringing seat-melting chemistry with her co-star, Timothee Chalamet, as a cannibal runaway, it's a toothsome turn from a fearless burning hunger to succeed I realise slightly too late that the lightning bolt tattooed on Taylor Russell's inner wrist, peeking out from beneath the cuff of her Prada turtleneck as she reclines in Central Park, is the same thin lightning bolt tattooed on Patti Smith's left knee, immortalised in so many of Robert Mapplethorpe's grainy photographs, probably one of the most famous single knees in the world. “Her words are so deeply ingrained in the map of my…

On a hallowed stretch of sand on the Atlantic coast, Sierra Leone's only amputee football team comes together for practice every week. Behind their success, say the stars of the Salone Flying Squad, lie stories of hardship, camaraderie and profound personal triumph On a sunny Sunday evening in Freetown, the Salone Flying Stars are gathered on Aberdeen beach for their regular weekend practice. Unlike on other days, the sand is coated in thick layers of seaweed washed ashore from the ocean. On weekends, the beach is typically bustling with walkers, joggers, footballers, volleyball players and people doing yoga exercises, but normal services have been cut short today as the blanket of seaweed continues to spread thick. That is until the Flying Stars arrive, determined not to let a plague of algae get…

On September 13, 2022, Mahsa Amini and her family decided to visit Tehran. As Mahsa and her brother approached the expressway, she was apprehended by the morality police for an ‘improperly worn’ hijab and taken to the police station. Her brother was told that Mahsa – or Jina, her Kurdish name, which her family called her – would be released after receiving “explanation and instruction” about mandatory hijab, and so he sat down to wait for her. Two hours later, he saw an ambulance leaving. Police initially claimed that Mahsa had had a heart attack at the station – despite the fact that the 22-year-old had no history of cardiac problems. Eyewitnesses who had been detained with Mahsa later came forward to detail scenes of police beating her with batons…

What initially strikes me is her punctual arrival at the studios on the peripheries of Paris. In this business, questionable notions of time run amok in talented circles. Yet today, Doja Cat is a welcome anomaly – a notably bald breath of fresh air, despite the 8am call time. I had spent the morning remarking on the state of calm with the other crew members. The mood feels void of that particular foreboding that comes with the typical demands of celebrities. Though perhaps that shouldn't come as a surprise, given that Doja has been riding a wave of success just lately that has seen her debut on the Coachella main stage, win her first Grammy and rack up multi-platinum records, all while perched on the Top 10 of the Billboard…

It started small. Freya, 16, from Brighton, would experiment with filters that modified her face when sending selfies to her friends on Snapchat. At first these were goofy effects, the kind that gave her dog ears or huge comedy sunglasses. Then she started getting more interested in beauty filters which made her skin look clearer, her eyes bigger, her forehead smaller. She gradually increased the level of image manipulation over time until the point where she would fear going out to meet friends IRL – what if they had gotten so used to the Freya from selfies that they were shocked to see her real face? What if they called her fake? The only solution, she felt, was to wear makeup that made her real face resemble the enhanced virtual version.…

There aren't many ways to kindly present this information, but here goes: some kids can be jerks. Just total savages, really. Children's novelist LM Montgomery put it best when she wrote, “Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.” It's no revelation that children can have a taste for brutality, but Montgomery touches on something far more interesting, that some children have a nose for what makes someone different and, therefore, a target. While researchers have found that younger generations are showing a greater capacity for empathy, 12-year-old Gianessa Wride could still be considered one such outsider. In 2020, she received two specially made bald dolls, known as ‘Brave Barbie’, from the National…

Beauty comes from within, they say. However, it helps to be well-adorned. For this issue, we've wandered the world, like we always do, in search of beauty in all its forms. Is it skin-deep, or woven into the fibres of this season's must-have fashion? Is it how we behave towards one another, in the love we exude, our reflections in the mirror? Or perhaps it's in the front-facing camera on our phones? For me, beauty is in the vulnerability we all possess. There's a strength in that I choose to embrace – it is beautiful. For our cover star, Doja Cat, beauty is “to go against it”. She loves it when you “take something that is maybe classically beautiful and twist it and make it your own”. Her newly cropped…

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When Ammy Drammeh met Michaela Coel on set for her Garage cover shoot, a distant reference came to mind. It was an image of 60s actress Shirley Eaton in the James Bond film Goldfinger, painted from head to toe in shimmering gold. She took in the actor's cutting cheekbones, fixed poise and deep skin in opting to paint her the same colour, as if foreshadowing the golden statues that would grace her palm the following year. “I don't know if it's correct, but I read the story that the make-up they used was really high in this poisonous substance because it's a metal,” Drammeh remembers. “I thought, ‘Is that based on what they saw in Egypt, maybe?’ I thought it looked so beautiful, but at the same time, it would look…

Sarah Ritter Filmmaker and visual editor Sarah Ritter describes herself as a “Kentucky hillbilly making art for a living”. Her bleached and bananas music clips for the likes of Jackie Hayes, Slater and Dazed 100-ers Frost Children marry Day-Glo vibe-shift vibrancy with giallo storylines and genuinely gripping plot twists. In Ritter's standout video for Surf Curse's “Self Portrait”, a protagonist drinks herself into oblivion before waking up in a Grimms’ fairytale, battling gravity, strange slime and her own spiralling insanity. Arlette Anyone who was lucky enough to grab the coattails of Kendrick Lamar's Big Steppers tour recently would have seen him belted up in Arlette, the Mexican brand bringing buckles and straps up to speed in 2022. Beyond Wildstyle-fonted belts which could easily pass for knife sets, Arlette's armoury includes…

Doreen Bloch was reading through transcripts of telephone conversations between Jackie Kennedy, then first lady, and dermatologist Dr Erno Laszlo when she became confused. The conversation was almost unintelligible, with both Kennedy and Dr Laszlo using cryptic language, trailing off mid-sentence and making oblique references to unspecified “circumstances”. Unsure of what she had stumbled upon, Bloch consulted with presidential scholar Professor Barbara Perry from the University of Virginia and, after cross-checking dates and timelines, the reason for her secrecy and coded language dawned on them: the first lady was pregnant, but couldn't say it outright in case the phone was tapped. Armed with this context, the underlying conversation revealed itself – pregnancy hormones were making Kennedy's skin break out; it was changing every day, she told her dermatologist. He advised against…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that most dog lovers in possession of a brain dislike dressing their dogs as a fashion statement. For all of Beatrix Potter's anthropomorphic stories of animals in clothes, you will not find one sartorially inclined dog. Rabbits, cats, mice, rats, pigs and foxes – yes – but the noble hound is a step too far. For conservationist Miss Potter, a dog was a companion, not a vanity project – but times have changed since The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published in 1901. Crufts dog show in March 2023 will see thousands of dog-related products go on sale, from food to collars and luxury coats. But a mirror would be a waste of money; a dog doesn't need to check if its bum looks big,…

African sounds from alté to amapiano are running the game in 2022 – and NATIVE, fresh from minting the new Black Panther movie soundtrack, is the Lagos-based label and publishing powerhouse at the heart of the action We have a saying in Nigeria: Naija no dey carry last. For those born in the motherland and the diaspora, to our parents’ generation and beyond, that phrase is ingrained in our brains, symbolic of the stubborn, salient pride in our identity. It carries many meanings; we don't falter in any aspect of life, we refuse to settle for less, our ingenuity is undeniable. The saying never diminishes. Instead, it adapts, waiting for new blood to craft its own definition. NATIVE carries that zeal into music and culture, bringing new concepts, vigour and…

Tucked into a quiet, narrow alley, it would be easy to mistake OOO-ing Studio for just another hair salon in Taichung's Nantun district. A skateboard sits outside as decoration, as it would at the foot of student halls or a shared house. Depending on the day, you might see a bike or scooter parked nearby (for young people in Taiwan, scooters are the mode of transport du jour). Inside, blinding fluorescent lights illuminate a stark white interior, and tall vertical mirrors sit in front of the space's five customer seats. For a salon that has become world-renowned for offering new perspectives on the art of hair dying, the studio is sparse on colour and space. Perhaps this is fitting. As the studio's art director, Light Liou, explains, the intention was…

Rifke Sadleir Rifke Sadleir sees coding as a means to make creative mischief. “In an ideal world, everything I work on would be some form of elaborate prank or joke,” says the Bristol-born digital designer and developer. Her website, imissmymates.club, started as a way for friends to play DJ sets to each other during lockdown – smoking area and all – before gaining a new lease of life as an online radio station. “It's very low-key, but I've formed some great friendships through [the project] and also learned – and forgotten – a lot of things along the way. I was so excited when I managed to get sound travelling through it I cried lol.” With DXR Zone, the digital agency she runs with Daniel Baragwanath, Sadleir can boast a…

Relative to the history of medicine, plastic surgery is young, plump, glowing, baby-faced, snatched. The techniques employed by today's plastic surgeons were honed in the last century, when advances in artillery left survivors of war in need of reconstructive work such as rewired jaws, sutures and skin grafts to reposition tissue and patch holes. Those surgeries brought awareness to the importance of appearance not only to the functioning of a patient's body but to that patient's overall sense of health and wellbeing; there is a proven connection between what we see in the mirror (or on the screen), how others perceive us, and how we feel about ourselves. Fast-forward to our current cultural infatuation with celebrities and influencers, the physical perfection they appear to embody and the everpresent rumours of…

St Louis, Missouri is home to the longest outlet mall in the world. Situated just off Route 370, it was once a beacon of commerce: a multilevel metropolis of fast food and fashion chains, an antidote to the bleakness of suburban life. But, like thousands of malls across the country, decades of economic decline forced its closure in 2019. “There wasn't anything to do,” says Angel Prost, “so we stayed indoors.” She's referring to Lulu, her younger sibling and the other half of pop duo Frost Children. Together they were raised in St Louis, nicknamed by locals as the shopping outlet suburb of Missouri. But while other kids hung out at the mall, Frost Children found a new, spiritual home: the internet. Speaking over Zoom from their shared apartment in…

Jackline wears long-sleeved t-shirt worn underneath stylist's own, boxer shorts PICKNWEIGHT…

“Temilade, what did you add in your stew?” There's a common theme to the online mystique surrounding Tems, the 27-year-old artist who has spent the last few years collecting industry accolades, big-hitter features and international fandoms like infinity stones. “I need Tems’ prayer,” is another popular online response when the latest news from the Lagos, Nigeria native spreads across Diasporic Twitter. And having been tapped for collaborations by a who's-who of the world's biggest artists – Beyoncé, Drake, Future, Wizkid, Justin Bieber, Khalid and most recently Rihanna – it's no wonder that the masses are in awe of one of our generation's fastest-rising stars. Sitting across from me in a private lounge at 180 Strand, Tems tends to agree that her path has been peppered with a certain divine providence,…

Taylor Russell is the blossoming talent whose acting ‘secrets’ first hooked us in the devastating family epic Waves, which so impressed Luca Guadagnino he quietly built his new him, Bones and All, around her. Bringing seat-melting chemistry with her co-star, Timothee Chalamet, as a cannibal runaway, it's a toothsome turn from a fearless burning hunger to succeed I realise slightly too late that the lightning bolt tattooed on Taylor Russell's inner wrist, peeking out from beneath the cuff of her Prada turtleneck as she reclines in Central Park, is the same thin lightning bolt tattooed on Patti Smith's left knee, immortalised in so many of Robert Mapplethorpe's grainy photographs, probably one of the most famous single knees in the world. “Her words are so deeply ingrained in the map of…

On a hallowed stretch of sand on the Atlantic coast, Sierra Leone's only amputee football team comes together for practice every week. Behind their success, say the stars of the Salone Flying Squad, lie stories of hardship, camaraderie and profound personal triumph On a sunny Sunday evening in Freetown, the Salone Flying Stars are gathered on Aberdeen beach for their regular weekend practice. Unlike on other days, the sand is coated in thick layers of seaweed washed ashore from the ocean. On weekends, the beach is typically bustling with walkers, joggers, footballers, volleyball players and people doing yoga exercises, but normal services have been cut short today as the blanket of seaweed continues to spread thick. That is until the Flying Stars arrive, determined not to let a plague of…

On September 13, 2022, Mahsa Amini and her family decided to visit Tehran. As Mahsa and her brother approached the expressway, she was apprehended by the morality police for an ‘improperly worn’ hijab and taken to the police station. Her brother was told that Mahsa – or Jina, her Kurdish name, which her family called her – would be released after receiving “explanation and instruction” about mandatory hijab, and so he sat down to wait for her. Two hours later, he saw an ambulance leaving. Police initially claimed that Mahsa had had a heart attack at the station – despite the fact that the 22-year-old had no history of cardiac problems. Eyewitnesses who had been detained with Mahsa later came forward to detail scenes of police beating her with batons…

What initially strikes me is her punctual arrival at the studios on the peripheries of Paris. In this business, questionable notions of time run amok in talented circles. Yet today, Doja Cat is a welcome anomaly – a notably bald breath of fresh air, despite the 8am call time. I had spent the morning remarking on the state of calm with the other crew members. The mood feels void of that particular foreboding that comes with the typical demands of celebrities. Though perhaps that shouldn't come as a surprise, given that Doja has been riding a wave of success just lately that has seen her debut on the Coachella main stage, win her first Grammy and rack up multi-platinum records, all while perched on the Top 10 of the Billboard…

It started small. Freya, 16, from Brighton, would experiment with filters that modified her face when sending selfies to her friends on Snapchat. At first these were goofy effects, the kind that gave her dog ears or huge comedy sunglasses. Then she started getting more interested in beauty filters which made her skin look clearer, her eyes bigger, her forehead smaller. She gradually increased the level of image manipulation over time until the point where she would fear going out to meet friends IRL – what if they had gotten so used to the Freya from selfies that they were shocked to see her real face? What if they called her fake? The only solution, she felt, was to wear makeup that made her real face resemble the enhanced virtual…

There aren't many ways to kindly present this information, but here goes: some kids can be jerks. Just total savages, really. Children's novelist LM Montgomery put it best when she wrote, “Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.” It's no revelation that children can have a taste for brutality, but Montgomery touches on something far more interesting, that some children have a nose for what makes someone different and, therefore, a target. While researchers have found that younger generations are showing a greater capacity for empathy, 12-year-old Gianessa Wride could still be considered one such outsider. In 2020, she received two specially made bald dolls, known as ‘Brave Barbie’, from the National…

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When Ammy Drammeh met Michaela Coel on set for her Garage cover shoot, a distant reference came to mind. It was an image of 60s actress Shirley Eaton in the James Bond film Goldfinger, painted from head to toe in shimmering gold. She took in the actor's cutting cheekbones, fixed poise and deep skin in opting to paint her the same colour, as if foreshadowing the golden statues that would grace her palm the following year. “I don't know if it's correct, but I read the story that the make-up they used was really high in this poisonous substance because it's a metal,” Drammeh remembers. “I thought, ‘Is that based on what they saw in Egypt, maybe?’ I thought it looked so beautiful, but at the same time, it would…

Doreen Bloch was reading through transcripts of telephone conversations between Jackie Kennedy, then first lady, and dermatologist Dr Erno Laszlo when she became confused. The conversation was almost unintelligible, with both Kennedy and Dr Laszlo using cryptic language, trailing off mid-sentence and making oblique references to unspecified “circumstances”. Unsure of what she had stumbled upon, Bloch consulted with presidential scholar Professor Barbara Perry from the University of Virginia and, after cross-checking dates and timelines, the reason for her secrecy and coded language dawned on them: the first lady was pregnant, but couldn't say it outright in case the phone was tapped. Armed with this context, the underlying conversation revealed itself – pregnancy hormones were making Kennedy's skin break out; it was changing every day, she told her dermatologist. He advised…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that most dog lovers in possession of a brain dislike dressing their dogs as a fashion statement. For all of Beatrix Potter's anthropomorphic stories of animals in clothes, you will not find one sartorially inclined dog. Rabbits, cats, mice, rats, pigs and foxes – yes – but the noble hound is a step too far. For conservationist Miss Potter, a dog was a companion, not a vanity project – but times have changed since The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published in 1901. Crufts dog show in March 2023 will see thousands of dog-related products go on sale, from food to collars and luxury coats. But a mirror would be a waste of money; a dog doesn't need to check if its bum looks…