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Shifting Focuses
Gaeta Jazz Festival reclaims live music as presence over spectacle, offering a sensory, collective experience where jazz becomes a language for connection and cultural renewal.
Dreams, Raes and Beams
From TikTok to Wembley, Addison Rae trades swipe-ups for spotlights—joining Lana Del Rey on stage and in spirit, in a rebrand that’s equal parts pop, polish, and pure ambition.
Sara Barbanti & Carla Maiolo at Porte Rosse
From June 7–10, Porte Rosse turned a corner of San Lorenzo into a quiet ritual of form, matter, and creative exchange between Sara Barbanti and Carla Maiolo.
Femme, Not Fatal.
A look at how Gen Z’s hottest teen drama portrays the victimhood beyond the bitchiness, exposing the emotional weight of looking powerful while feeling powerless.
The Grotesque Feminine
A visceral reading of The Substance—feminist body horror that exposes how beauty, aging, and perfection feed a system built to consume women and discard them.
Prioritization Of Propaganda
Gen Z repackages propaganda as aesthetic language, blending irony, intimacy, and algorithmic culture into a new form of soft political theatre.
Hype Seats Only
Influencers now occupy a central role in the fashion week landscape, signaling a shift in cultural capital as digital proximity and audience intimacy rival traditional forms of fame and legacy.
Post-Karl, Pre-Future
Karl Lagerfeld defined much of Chanel’s modern image and aesthetic, and in his absence, the house has been forced to reframe its identity through a new creative lens.
Something Beautiful
Miley Cyrus’s Something Beautiful signals a new era of artistic freedom, blending archival fashion, emotional contrast, and genre-defiant sound into a fully realized visual statement.
Sounds like Primavera
Primavera Sound emerges as a festival where music, cultural expression, and political consciousness intersect to shape a distinct contemporary ethos.
Sabrina Carpenter's Fashion Rebrand
Sabrina Carpenter's flouncy and vintage fashion sense has taken the world by storm just as her music has, but she hasn’t always dressed this way.
Roach Era
Law Roach treats styling as cinematic composition, with emotional and visual continuity stretched across red carpets, campaigns, and cultural memory.
Villains Wear Pink
Hollywood’s portrayal of hyper-femininity frames feminine aesthetics as visual transgression, casting beauty, spectacle, and surface as threats to narrative morality and female autonomy.
Haze like Sharna
Sharna Osborne’s hazy, lo-fi lens reimagines fashion photography through intimacy, nostalgia, and emotional residue—rejecting gloss for something quieter, stranger, and more human.
Sleaze Revival
What once was unfiltered and chaotic is now a performance. Indie Sleaze may be back, but its spirit of spontaneity has been replaced by curated imperfection and digital longing.
Geek Glamour Glory
Geek Girl channels fashion as a form of self-authorship, blending visual codes and narrative cues to shape identity with both irony and intent.
Lyrics On Trial
Can a song be a crime? From censored jazz to courtroom rap, discover why music still scares the system.
Faith, Frame, Focus
Gabriel Moses’ Selah confronts the limits of cultural visibility by framing Black British identity through a lens shaped by faith, family, and the creative urgency of working-class resistance.
NZIEM Festival
NZIEM Festival returns for its third edition on June 21 - 22, 2025, at Sharing Art in Pompeii (Naples, Italy), reaffirming its place as one of the most original and vibrant cultural events in the Vesuvius area.
Un’Altra Scena: Dedu
Un’Altra Scena and Dedu reflect a growing creative movement in Naples that centers raw emotion, local identity, and independent artistry as powerful forces in contemporary music culture.