September 14, 2015 Shared by @dazedmagazine || Sia is co-directing a documentary about her own life: Last week, we reported that Australian musician and Dazed favourite #Sia Furler had just finished writing the screenplay for upcoming film Sister, which will star dance muse @MaddieZiegler and be directed by Sia herself. As it turns out, Sister isn’t the only directorial project that the artist will be lending her talents to. According to Deadline, Sia and director Erik Anders Lang (who is also her husband) have teamed up to make a documentary about the singer’s life. So far, the film is being referred to as The Untitled Sia Documentary Project, and knowing Sia, it will probably keep that title. Until now, the famously elusive visionary has kept a wall between her work and her private life, often choosing to hide her face during performances and interviews, and instead letting her artwork speak for itself. However, we have been able to gleam an insight into her history through her music, lyrics and visuals, which have often explored ideas of personal struggle and self-destruction. Her incredible video for “Chandelier”, for example, embodies the unhinged despair surrounding her own experiences with addiction. “I thought it would be really fucking cool to have this little child imparting this adult experience,” she told Dazed about the video at the time. “It’s about the desperation of the avoidance of uncomfortable feelings. If you look back to any of my more poppy songs, most of the lyrics are about being fucked.” We can’t wait to hear more about the singer in her own words. – words @daisythejones #dazedinstastory 📷 via siafurlersource.tumblr.com Continue reading →
September 10, 2015 Shared by @dazedmagazine || Start your #NYFW right. We asked @badlydrawnmodels to scrawl all your favourite fashion designers (terribly). Follow @dazedfashion for more! 📷 @badlydrawnmodels Continue reading →
August 27, 2015 Via @dazedmagazine || Goodbye summer ☔️ This week’s #dazedandexposed winner is @augustinegasoline Tag your best pics #dazedandexposed @dazedmagazine Continue reading →
August 20, 2015 Via @dazedmagazine || Rick Owens opens up about the model that ruined his show: Back in June, @rickowensonline’ #SS16 #menswear show at #ParisFashionWeek was hijacked by a model unfurling a banner mid-runway that asked that someone “Please kill Angela Merkel…Not”. The stunt was performed by a German model named Jera, a longtime muse to Owens who was promptly dropped from his agency. Unsurprisingly, Owens was not pleased about it all, telling us backstage that he was “furious” and “punched him when he came off stage.” Although many were shocked at such a strong reaction from the designer (particularly after a show that explored ideas of male aggression) in a new interview with @surfacemag magazine he explains the reason for his actions. | “I was pissed at that moment. I thought, ‘Hey, this is my spotlight, and you fucked it up,’” Owens explains. “The whole reason I hit the guy was I knew if I didn’t react very strongly it might get out that this was some stunt that I had planned. Everybody had to know how strongly I disagreed with this.” | The designer also goes into detail on Jera’s personality and the consequences of his runway protest, saying: “He’s always been a heavy drinker, and a little erratic, which was adorable. But what he did was just so illogical. He was very accepted here and embraced by a community of people who were very affectionate toward him – a group that now feels more hostility toward him than I do because they feel protective of me. It was really a self-destructive gesture.” | Of course, Owens is no stranger to controversy or provocation (see his penis-flashing AW15 show) but this model’s actions took the spotlight away from the designer’s collection and instead focussed it on a misplaced political statement. As he explains, the biggest problem he had with the outburst was that it was rooted in negativity – “Whenever I do provocation, I’m always doing something that I feel is based on warmth and kindness and love.” – words @emmahopeall #dazedinstastory Continue reading →
August 17, 2015 Via @dazedmagazine || Half of young people don’t identify as straight: Everyone is well aware that sexuality exists on a spectrum, rather than being something you can put in a box and neatly label. Sexual fluidity is something teens grow up with now – Kristen Stewart and @caradelevingne refuse to put labels on their sexuality, @shamir326 says he has “no gender, no sexuality, and no fucks to give”, while @MileyCyrus openly discusses her “fluidity”. Increasingly, young people are rejecting pigeonholes. YouGov asked 1632 people to put themselves on a Kinsey scale of sexuality from 0 (exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual). Among the total population, 72 per cent of adults defined themselves as exclusively heterosexual, 4 per cent ranked themselves as exclusively homosexual, with 19 per cent somewhere on the spectrum. But when it came to 18-24 year olds, things were a lot less black and white. Only 46 per cent of them would rank themselves as exclusively heterosexual. This isn’t because more young people are gay – still only 6 per cent would identify as being exclusively homosexual. They’re all somewhere on the spectrum in-between the two. YouGov concluded: “Clearly the figures are not measures of active bisexuality, but putting yourself at level 1 allows for the possibility of homosexual feelings and experiences. More than anything, it indicates an increasingly open minded approach to sexuality. “In a further set of questions asking if respondents could conceivably be attracted to, have sex with or have a relationship with someone of the same sex (if the right person came along at the right time), Level 1s were at least 35 per cent more likely to say they could than Level 0s.” Maybe this comes from having more visible #LGBT figures in pop culture, maybe young people feel confident to explore their sexuality than previous generations have. Whatever the reason, it shows that we’re growing up part of a country increasingly comfortable with the idea that sexuality is not something we need to make a concrete decision on. – words @hannahrose___ #dazedinstastory 📷 Photography @rankinarchive, styling @alistermackie Taken from Dazed March 2000 Continue reading →