Music festivals are a celebration of style, creativity, and personal expression. In 2025, women can enjoy festival fashion that stands out without relying on overused Coachella clichés like fringe, neon, or extreme crop tops. This guide explores festival-ready outfits that are stylish, comfortable, versatile, and perfect for both dancing and capturing memorable photos. 1. Comfortable…
When María Zardoya takes the stage, she doesn’t adopt a persona, instead, she amplifies who she already is. The frontwoman of The Marías is known for her hypnotic voice and lush, dream-pop sound, but her visual world is just as defining, vintage, sensual, and with a distinct cinematic vibe. “There’s not much difference between performance María and…
Get ready, music lovers! Live entertainment company Live Nation is unveiling Hong Kong’s first venue purposely dedicated to live music events, so it looks like we’ll have a great gig venue soon. Interestingly, this music destination designed entirely in-house by the Live Nation team will be housed in the iconic ship-shaped Whampoa complex. It only…
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images Justin Bieber had his “One Less Lonely Girl.” Charli XCX has her designated “Apple” dancer. Sabrina Carpenter has her fuzzy pink handcuffs. And now, the viral pop-concert trend filling everyone’s TikTok feeds is Role Model’s Sallies. Since his hit song “Sally, When The Wine Runs Out” dropped in…
Live Nation is set to open Tides, a 1,500-capacity live music venue in Kowloon, offering a much-needed mid-sized space for Hong Kong’s performance scene. Live Nation announced today that it will soon open Tides, a new mid-size live music venue with a standing capacity of 1,500 that occupies the first and upper-first floors of the…
Francesca Lake AW2528 Images Francesca Lake’s clothes exist along a fashion fault line, between two points of seeming contradiction. Her designs are brazenly maximalist and theatrical – voluminous bubble skirts, ruched ball gowns and dramatic headdresses have been some of Lake’s go-tos since her Central Saint Martins graduate collection in 2021. But, on the other…
Eddie Palmieri, the avant-garde musician who was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died. He was 88 years old. Fania Records announced Palmieri’s death Wednesday evening. Palmieri’s daughter, Gabriela, told The New York Times that her father died earlier that day at his home in New Jersey after “an extended…
Copenhagen Fashion Week SS26 took over the Danish capital (and our social feeds) this week, bringing with it an abundance of rat bags, crocheted hats and designer flip flops. Known for its cute, playful aesthetics, frills and scalloped edges, yesterday (August 7), one runway took an unexpected political turn. During Finnish brand Marimekko’s catwalk show,…
From a pioneering Emirati actress who helped lay the foundations of national television and theatre, to a Lebanese composer who soundtracked the social and political pulse of his homeland, the Arab cultural scene has been etched by significant loss in 2025. Spanning music, film, television, literature and visual arts, these 11 artists not only shaped…
“We are barely surviving,” says Hussain, a garment worker at a factory in Pakistan. “I live in a two-room house with my five children. I hardly manage my utilities on my salary, and we are living hand to mouth. The wages are not enough.” Hussain is one of hundreds of Pakistani workers making clothes for…