The viral trend sees creators emulate beauty ideals from cities across the world – but not everyone agrees on what these ideals are
Aug 21, 2025
Ahead of new mixtape Beauty in the Beast, the Dublin artist talks working-class representation in music, taking inspiration from ‘weird’ songwriters, and how music helped him master his emotions
May 29, 2025
‘Social mobility is getting worse, not better,’ says Ally Owen, the founder of Brixton Finishing School, which is partnering with SXSW London
William Rayfet Hunter’s sun-drenched debut follows a mixed-race musician who becomes obsessed with a fabulously wealthy family. We sat down with Hunter, who won the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize in 2022, to discuss his new book
May 19, 2025
Melanie & The Miners’ Strike brings together personal photographs which depict enduring friendships and girls’ nights out
May 16, 2025
As high-end fragrance houses pivot to luxury cleaning products, what does it say about the politics of cleanliness?
Apr 24, 2025
The incest storyline on The White Lotus isn’t just for shock value – it’s a damning indictment of the way wealth and status remains concentrated among the one per cent
Mar 27, 2025
We speak to photographers from the major new exhibition, The 80s: Photographing Britain, who share their perspective on a febrile decade of protest, privatisation and excess
Nov 22, 2024
Access to higher education has drastically improved over the last 100 years – but, as working-class students have found, being admitted to a university is not the same as being truly accepted into it
Nov 14, 2024
A new study has found that people from ‘upper-middle class’ backgrounds are hugely overrepresented in the arts
Nov 13, 2024
Snow-white and pin-straight veneers used to be a status symbol among Hollywood stars – but as cosmetic dentistry has boomed with the rise of ‘Turkey teeth’, tastes have begun to shift in favour of more imperfect smiles
Oct 25, 2024
Many of the people posting about last week’s violence on social media seemed less concerned with the welfare of racialised communities and more excited about the opportunity to slate the working class as small-minded and provincial
Aug 13, 2024
Kate Schultze’s photo book Mind the Gap, Luv starkly but lovingly documents the reality of life for young Northerners in the aftermath of Brexit
Jul 10, 2024
26-year-old London filmmaker Luna Carmoon talks about her semi-autobiographical debut, starring Stranger Things’ Joseph Quinn
May 17, 2024
We explore After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1986-2024, a new touring exhibition curated by Johny Pitts and featuring the likes of Ewen Spencer, Eddie Ochtere and Richard Billingham
Apr 11, 2024
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