Table of contents for Winter 2024 in Dazed & Confused

The clocks have gone back, daytime is as dark as the night, and the festive spirit is starting to creep up on us. 2024 is finally coming to an end, readers! Time does fly and it's too easy to forget all the great memories we've lived and loved. One of my less favourite traits is that I tend to overlook the moment in favour of what's to come. I suppose this is the nature of the industry we work in. And with the new year approaching, we're all probably drafting our resolution list in our notes app (a jump-scare waiting to happen, no doubt). What makes making a magazine so great is its ability to reflect the current times - to lean into the dramas that play out on the…

Designers Freddy Coomes and Matt Empringham, freshly graduated from Central Saint Martins, make brilliant clothes. And yet, their designs are really more like the concept of clothes than clothes themselves - Coomes and Empringham make sculptural, two-dimensional garments that resemble those you'd wrap around a paper doll. It's as if they are designing for Flat Stanley: The collections include permanently windblown scarves, ends sticking straight up; huge paper-thin coats, complete with the illusion of hands in pockets; pieces trimmed with square patches of the materials they're made with. “There's a feeling of unease [in our work],” says Coomes, speaking alongside Empringham from their central London studio. “We're never trying to get too close to what the garment is. It's kind of like the uncanny valley. You know it's not real,…

starring FREDDIE MACBRUCE as SURPRISE The Meisner technique is often one of the first methods approached in a young actor's training. “Acting is the ability to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances,” said its creator, Sanford Meisner. While many techniques prioritise personal experience, Meisner champions a more fertile place - vivid imagination. It encourages actors to actively listen and let their scene and partner affect them. Emotional truth grows. Nerves are made redundant. You are your most present. Since the 1860s, aspiring performers have been streaming into the UK's acting schools - the historic Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada), the star-making Guildhall, the excitingly visionary Identity School of Acting. A glut of graduates also emerge to meet casting queues, callbacks over Zoom and opening nights. They're armed with Meisner, Stanislavski,…

You wake up, you throw some water on your face, you open your phone. Waiting for you is a video of a posh woman swallowing an ungodly amount of oysters, and another of ‘The Rizzler’, playing basketball while dressed like Steve Jobs. You double tap them both, acknowledging receipt with the Instagram heart reaction. Some mornings might elicit a giant tears-streaming emoji, an ‘ffs’ or even a ‘looool’ - but not today. Instead, you browse your feed for something to respond with. That viral advert for a Turkish gastric band clinic? Hmm, not quite right. The mashup where the ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl interviews Cole Palmer? No, you already sent that last night. Ah yes, that post where the cutesy e-girl writes, “If the world was ending i wanna be skibidi…

Hair OLIVIER SCHAWALDER at ART + COMMERCE using BUMBLE AND BUMBLE., make-up MASAÉ ITO at MA+TALENT, nails SYLVIE VACCA at CALL MY AGENT, model APOLLINE ROCCO-FOHRER at THE MILK COLLECTIVE, set design CHRISTIAN FELTHAM at BRYANT ARTISTS, movement direction RYAN CHAPPELL, lighting PAUL JEDWAB, styling assistants BEN RUCOS, LOTI PUNCERNAU PASCUCCI, LOIC BOURGEOIS, hair assistant CLOÉ HOBI, make-up assistant MORGANE NICOL, set design assistants TIAGO RUNKEL, FREDRIK SVARTNÄS, XAVIER MADDEN, lighting assistant MATTHIEU BOUTIGNON, digital operator PHILIPPE BILLEMONT, stunt coordinator HUGO BARILLER, production DIVISION, photographic producer MORGAN ETAYEAU, project management REDA MADJID, production assistant MARINE GARRIGUES, LINA SIMONSEN, post-production INK, casting MISCHA NOTCUTT at 11CASTING, casting associate OPHELIA HORTON at 11CASTING…

It was December 2022 when the past finally caught up with Pa Salieu, derailing his path to success and throwing his future up in the air. His court case was in its final stretch and his lawyer requested a suspended sentence, as he believed that Salieu was by no means the sum of his mistakes. Almost four years after the incident that had put him in front of a judge, Salieu had gotten his life back on track, but it simply wasn't enough. Back in 2018, Salieu witnessed the fatal stabbing of Fidel Glasgow outside a bar in his hometown of Coventry. Glasgow, grandson of Specials vocalist Neville Staple, was his best friend. A group of nine men including Salieu chased another young man away from the scene of the…

“LET'S DRESS ME UP!” NYANE LEBAJOA Harrison Flint was streaming live on TikTok from the streets of New York when he felt something splatter against him. He looked down to see egg yolk dribbling down his clothes, and up to see two guys passing on a bicycle, hurling more eggs his way. He grabbed his phone and gave chase, still streaming live to an audience of thousands. “We chased them,” he says over video call, remembering the scene. “It was funny, because it was two kids on one bike, one riding in the front basket with his legs sticking out, like he was ET or something. I was sprinting my heart out down Broadway, but I couldn't catch up.” Though the eggers escaped, Flint's eagle-eyed TikTok audience was able to identify…

If one thing is certain in 2024, it's that the internet is an ever-growing festival of absurdity (read Clive Martin on our addiction to mind-bendingly banal content on page 74). One moment, you're placidly watching an Al bee play an instrumental saxophone cover of “Always Remember Us This Way”, the next you're clicking on a deep-fried meme captioned “Mama a girl behind you” - and ail, seemingly, for no reason at all. Unlike typical viruses, which diminish in power with mutation, the current wave of brain-rot appears only to be claiming more victims. But who is responsible for this digital contagion? Who are the true originators - the patient zeros? Recently, I stumbled upon two people asking similar questions. Hamzah and Martin are the pair behind Slushy Noobz, a cult…

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