The Summer 2023 Issue

Page turners: 10 emerging authors pick their favourite new books

We asked some of our favourite writers to select an emerging author that excites them the most. Full disclosure: some of them were so good we had to mention them twice, while others were not so new at all...

Life & Culture

Sep 04, 2023

Fashion

Barnyard garb: Del Core heads to the farm for SS23

For the summer issue of Dazed, photographer Kayla Connors and stylist Rudi Edwards capture Del Core's SS23 Fathom collection

Fashion

Jul 19, 2023

Fashion

Mermaidcore! These Fila models sat on the beach for a bit

Erika Kamano and Ella Lucia shoot Haider Ackermann’s collaboration with Fila in the latest issue of Dazed

Fashion

Jul 18, 2023

Daniel Rodgers

Music

Recess: watch the cult club crew takeover Dreamland, Margate

Recess is a staple of Black British nightlife and beyond, throwing events from Accra to Ibiza, and for their 100th party they took over Dreamland for #RECESSLAND. Watch it here – plus, read Caleb Femi’s interview with founders Jojo and David Sonubi

Music

Jul 17, 2023

Caleb Femi

Life & Culture

Feeling Scene: a guide to Leicester by the city’s notable names

Famous faces from Leicester, one of Britain’s first ‘super-diverse’ cities with a 59 per cent ethnic majority population, drop a pin on their favourite places to hang

Life & Culture

Jun 16, 2023

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Life & Culture

Bailey Mills Dazed Dexter Lander Harry Lambert

Bailey J Mills: clown of glory

So British their teeth are falling out, Bailey J Mills is the TikTok trashbag turning the UK’s cast of suburban eccentrics into viral transmissions

Life & Culture

Jun 15, 2023

Bailey Slater

Film & TV

Kosar Ali: ‘Immigrants are the sauce and seasoning of Britain’

Kosar Ali was thinking about lunch when a chance audition at school changed her life – four years later, she took home two Bifas for her performance in Rocks. Now, she’s exploring roles that tap the complexities of belonging in contemporary Britain

Film & TV

Jun 14, 2023

Sagal Mohammed

Music

Space Afrika: the ambient noise duo putting Manchester on high alert

With songs that reflect the everyday hustle of life in the inner city, Manchester-born duo Space Afrika’s Joshua Inyang and Joshua Reid are ‘trying to push Black music and experiences into spaces they’re not supposed to be in’

Music

Jun 14, 2023

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Art & Photography

The new YBAs: 6 breakout British artists to put on your radar

Like the young British artists of 30 years ago, today’s crop of UK creatives are finding new ways to express dissent in a country where the vibes are off, and the future is uncertain

Art & Photography

Jun 13, 2023

Elisha Tawe

Life & Culture

The strange and ferocious world of British lower-league football

Up and down the country, lower-league football has become Britain’s go-to fix for indulging our national obsession. We travel to the West Country for a grudge match like no other – and discover the beautiful game’s less beautiful enclaves

Life & Culture

Jun 12, 2023

Clive Martin

Life & Culture

New labour: how young Britons are reinventing traditional work

Butcher, bricklayer, time machine-maker: across the UK, the dust is being blown off jobs that defined older generations – we journey to the farms, brickyards and kitchens to trace the rupture and meet the people bringing new moves to a mad country

Life & Culture

Jun 08, 2023

Jack Mills

Fashion

Northern Souls: see Jack Davison and Ib Kamara’s sun-soaked cover story

For the new summer issue, Kamara and Davison create a dreamy portrait of young love in the north of England

Fashion

Jun 02, 2023

Life & Culture

Ramla Ali on her biopic, boat crossings and taking on the Tories

Ramla Ali has had to fight for her place in the world since coming to Britain from Somalia as a child. Now, she’s a boxer, activist and model being played by Letitia Wright in an upcoming biopic. Her deadliest opponent to date? Rishi Sunak

Life & Culture

Jun 02, 2023

Dominique Sisley

Fashion