Typing the word “lifestyle” calls to mind a carousel of images: social media influencers staging the same photograph in front of a Santorini sunset, colorful dinner plates shot from above, magazines dedicated to profiling the homes of the rich and the famous. The concept of lifestyle is tangled up in the kind of conspicuous consumption that social media enables; however it also undergirds major sociopolitical conversations.

ONE OF THE BEST things about the changing of the seasons is all the different fruits and vegetables that signal each one. Summers in Spain meant sandía in the mornings and springtime means lots of sweet, dark cherries. Right now, in early autumn, it’s apples, hanging heavy from all the trees scattered about the countryside, and my most favourite of all, fig season …

There are certain phrases that are central to the sway the tech industry holds over our collective imagination: they do not simply reflect our experience, they frame how we experience it in the first place. They sweep aside certain parts of the status quo, and leave other parts mysteriously untouched.

THIS WEEKEND WAS a whirl of films and books and music, all set to the backdrop of a roaring fire, the cottage cosy while outside, leaves fell. We’ve been talking a lot about everything that has been going on in the world and it can be a bit overwhelming to think about it all, but right now …

Some moments on Slowthai‘s incendiary 2019 debut ‘Nothing Great About Britain’ saw the Northampton rapper take a much-needed breather from being the album’s in-yer-face master of ceremonies. Both the chopped-up sample-heavy ‘Gorgeous’ and ‘Original Pirate Material’-style ‘Toaster’ saw Slowthai reflect on the ups and downs of his tough upbringing, back when “responsibility [was] another chapter“.

Russian-born, raised in Germany influencer Xenia Adonts moved to Paris recently and has been slowly releasing small glimpses of her new apartment on her Instagram account @xeniaadonts. And while the space the classically good bones of a Paris apartment with its juliet balconies and chevron wood floors …