Last week, Dazed Club took over the car park and cinema at Selfridges for four nights of art, performance and after-hours experimentation, culminating in a special Archive Club talk celebrating 35 years of Dazed in print. As part of Selfridges’ spring programme, the series tapped into a new wave of club culture – one rooted as much in creativity and community as it is in nightlife.

The week opened with an immersive life drawing session led by Charles Jeffrey of Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY. Hosted in the Selfridges car park, a small group of lucky Dazed and Selfridges members were invited to sketch within Jeffrey’s singular world, where fashion and performance blur.

On Tuesday, artist Daily May Collingridge reimagined the traditional life drawing class. Instead of a human model, this time attendees got to sketch one of Collingridge’s wearable sculptures. The session explored anatomy through costume, distorting and exaggerating the body through material, texture and silhouette.

Wednesday evening, Beaubeaus joined forces with Teoni Hinds to host an art club centred around movement. With dancers as their objects, attendees captured the human form in flux, working across mediums to translate motion onto paper.

The week culminated in Dazed Archive Club, an intimate gathering inside the Selfridges Cinema celebrating magazine culture. Guests were invited to explore physical copies of iconic issues from each decade of Dazed’s 35-year history, including the very first issue from Rankin’s personal archive. On stage, executive editor Jack Sunnucks, editor-in-chief Ted Stansfield and art director Ester Mejibovski reflected on how Dazed’s early identity continues to inform its voice today, and how print has evolved over the decades.

After the talk, guests enjoyed curated complimentary cocktails in the speakeasy style bar, and continue to delve into the archive, while a DJ set from MaXXXim carried the night forward.

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