Dazed & Confused

A trailblazer for emerging talent and proudly independent, Dazed magazine aims to set the cultural agenda, both on and offline. Founded by Jefferson Hack and Rankin in 1991, the entire archive of back issues is available for digital subscribers to Dazed. The independent British fashion, culture and arts magazine has a strong global reputation for its groundbreaking and trendsetting editorial and its support of new generations of fashion, art, literature, photography and music talent. DazedDigital.com, their online magazine, is updated daily, hosting interactive projects, extra editorial content, exclusive music and fashion film.

Dazed & Confused

The Beat Goes On

NEWS OF THE WORLD

A Crack in the Zeitgeist • Across the worlds of fashion, music and sport, young writers and podcasters have the inside scoop on a new feeling of optimism that’s afoot on the Emerald Isle

Hidden treasure • IN BLUE-COLLAR BALTIMORE, HOOPER HOUSE HAS BECOME A WELLSPRING OF UNDERGROUND ACTIVITY, A LABORATORY OF IDEAS BUBBLING AWAY IN SECRET

Life's rich pageant • The clinician, the tarot reader, the journalist and the fugitive: with LGBTQ+ rights under threat, Malaysia’s queer kinfolk peel back the curtain on life in the margins of the mainstream

THE TRENCHTOK WAVE • How a new DIY movement is helping Nigerian youth find fame in 2025, while highlighting a class divide that lurks over all social media

Inner City Pressure • How does life in a city of extremes unfold? On long commutes to São Paulo from the edges of suburbia, artists and strivers find new ways to carve out their creativity

The Ivy League • With pop-star impressions so on-point they’ve even kept the Barbz on side, Nia Ivy is transcending TikTok to become her own kind of star

Art in Exile • For many young Russians escaping the war, creativity is a way to work through the upheaval of exile - but the war in their heads is not so easily dismissed

Streaked-out fantasy • At the world’s busiest street crossing, visitors to Tokyo rub shoulders with the salarymen and subcultures that live it. But in a city of widening wealth gaps where the future feels precarious, how do global perceptions stack up against lived reality?

Red Target • On the streets of Rio where trap and baile funk rule supreme, the name of Oruam is fast becoming legend. But his poet’s-eye view of life in the favelas has made the flame-haired rapper a target for the law

Larger Than Life

The Rose That Grew From Concrete • Swapping high-fashion glitz for clubs and community centres, Martine Rose’s vision of London is twisted, intimate and defiantly real. Here, she opens up on the inner landscapes that guide her work, before ceding the floor to the young creative talents that keep the city spinning

Pole Position • Putting Brad Pitt in the passenger side with a supercharged turn in F1, Damson Idris has come a long way from his West End debut selling ice creams at The Lion King. Here, the south London-born star reflects on the transatlantic gamble that took the brakes off his career

Sink or Swim

Tower Above • Swerving the spotlight at the top of his game, Skepta has always been an artist happy to go his own strange way. In a rare interview, he ushers us through the gates of his studio – ‘the tower’ – where he’s carving out a new sonic path

Heavenly Bodies

A Face in the Crowd • Taking K-pop to the places other performers can only dream of, Rosé returns to the BLACKPINK mothership this summer fresh from a record-breaking solo run. But, says your number-one girl, she still has dreams of melting back into the crowd

No Shade

Grass Acts • Having watched in the wings as England fired women’s football firmly into the mainstream at the Euros, the next gen of homegrown talent is...