Sky Ferreira is finally dropping new music. Back in 2013, the singer’s label stopped funding her music, unhappy with the lo-fi, grunge-pop direction she was going in. What’s more: the contract meant she couldn’t release any music elsewhere, under any other name, for 10 years. Though she released a couple of singles via the label in the decade since – 2019’s “Downhill Lullaby” and 2022’s “Don’t Forget” – she was ultimately dropped in 2023, losing the rights to her previous music. Now, she’s releasing “Leash”, which will be released via A24’s music imprint, for their film Babygirl this Thursday. Speaking to Vogue about the song and her relationship with her ex-label, Ferreira said she’s “excited to put out new music and have full control over the process.” Free Sky forever.
The BFA award-winners are here. Taking home the (very well deserved) Model of the Year award was Alex Consani, alongside A$AP Rocky who received the Cultural Innovator accolade. Anna Wintour also handed Tom Ford the BFC award for Outstanding Achievement and i-D faves Chopova Lowena took home the Foundation award.
Harris Dickinson vibing to unreleased Sky Ferreira… He is all of us.
Alice Neel’s queer portraits are coming to London. Opening at London’s Victoria Miro, At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World will present many of the American painter’s portraits of important cultural figures including writer Frank O’Hara, sexologist and performance artist Annie Sprinkle and poet Allen Ginsberg. It runs from 30 January until 8 March 2025. Go for the art, stay for the NSFW details.
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Sky Ferreira is finally dropping new music. Back in 2013, the singer’s label stopped funding her music, unhappy with the lo-fi, grunge-pop direction she was going in. What’s more: the contract meant she couldn’t release any music elsewhere, under any other name, for 10 years. Though she released a couple of singles via the label in the decade since – 2019’s “Downhill Lullaby” and 2022’s “Don’t Forget” – she was ultimately dropped in 2023, losing the rights to her previous music. Now, she’s releasing “Leash”, which will be released via A24’s music imprint, for their film Babygirl this Thursday. Speaking to Vogue about the song and her relationship with her ex-label, Ferreira said she’s “excited to put out new music and have full control over the process.” Free Sky forever.
The BFA award-winners are here. Taking home the (very well deserved) Model of the Year award was Alex Consani, alongside A$AP Rocky who received the Cultural Innovator accolade. Anna Wintour also handed Tom Ford the BFC award for Outstanding Achievement and i-D faves Chopova Lowena took home the Foundation award.
Harris Dickinson vibing to unreleased Sky Ferreira… He is all of us.
Alice Neel’s queer portraits are coming to London. Opening at London’s Victoria Miro, At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World will present many of the American painter’s portraits of important cultural figures including writer Frank O’Hara, sexologist and performance artist Annie Sprinkle and poet Allen Ginsberg. It runs from 30 January until 8 March 2025. Go for the art, stay for the NSFW details.
Jacob Elordi casting klaxon! 🚨 The Saltburn star’s next role will be in the BBC war drama, The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Based on Richard Flanagan’s Booker-winning novel of the same name, the story follows a man named Dorrigo Evans as he reflects on intense love affairs, being captured as a prisoner of war and becoming a “reluctant” war hero. Elordi will play the younger Dorrigo, while Ciarán Hinds will play the older, present day version.
Jacob Elordi casting klaxon! 🚨 The Saltburn star’s next role will be in the BBC war drama, The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Based on Richard Flanagan’s Booker-winning novel of the same name, the story follows a man named Dorrigo Evans as he reflects on intense love affairs, being captured as a prisoner of war and becoming a “reluctant” war hero. Elordi will play the younger Dorrigo, while Ciarán Hinds will play the older, present day version.
Isamaya Ffrench x Nike is not a want, but a need. The make-up artist has collaborated with the sports brand on two new delicious Air Max colour ways. Influenced by women in sport, the sleek new styles were designed by Ffrench and aim to help “women feel good and give them confidence to perform at their peak.” The styles drop online and in select stores 20 December.
Mubi are making books next. The publishing imprint from the arthouse distributor and streaming company will publish four main series: Projections, which will focus on film history and culture; Auteurs, which will both focus on, and be made in collaboration with, artists and filmmakers; Internegatives, which will republish rare, out-of-print and new translations of texts; and Lights!, which will explore Mubi’s own releases. The imprint will launch in April with its first book, Read Frame Type Film, created in collaboration with Centre Pompidou.
Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year? Brain rot. Are you holding space for the chip shop diva? What about the solo polyamorous hijabi amputee? Can you define the word “skibidi”? Or know who the Rizzler is? Congrats, you’ve probably got brain rot. According to the University of Oxford, the phrase’s usage increased 230% in the past year, and is defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging.” The phrase feels like a fitting diagnosis and summary of a year spent in global turmoil, constantly glued to our phones.
Isamaya Ffrench x Nike is not a want, but a need. The make-up artist has collaborated with the sports brand on two new delicious Air Max colour ways. Influenced by women in sport, the sleek new styles were designed by Ffrench and aim to help “women feel good and give them confidence to perform at their peak.” The styles drop online and in select stores 20 December.
Mubi are making books next. The publishing imprint from the arthouse distributor and streaming company will publish four main series: Projections, which will focus on film history and culture; Auteurs, which will both focus on, and be made in collaboration with, artists and filmmakers; Internegatives, which will republish rare, out-of-print and new translations of texts; and Lights!, which will explore Mubi’s own releases. The imprint will launch in April with its first book, Read Frame Type Film, created in collaboration with Centre Pompidou.
Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year? Brain rot. Are you holding space for the chip shop diva? What about the solo polyamorous hijabi amputee? Can you define the word “skibidi”? Or know who the Rizzler is? Congrats, you’ve probably got brain rot. According to the University of Oxford, the phrase’s usage increased 230% in the past year, and is defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging.” The phrase feels like a fitting diagnosis and summary of a year spent in global turmoil, constantly glued to our phones.
Supreme x Frank Frazetta is for the warlocks, warrior women and everyone in between. The streetwear label’s latest apparel drop celebrates the influential science fiction and fantasy illustrator. The drop comes alongside a special Frazetta-inspired animation soundtracked by i-D fave Eartheater’s 2018 track “Trespasses”. Check out the video below.
Supreme x Frank Frazetta is for the warlocks, warrior women and everyone in between. The streetwear label’s latest apparel drop celebrates the influential science fiction and fantasy illustrator. The drop comes alongside a special Frazetta-inspired animation soundtracked by i-D fave Eartheater’s 2018 track “Trespasses”. Check out the video below.
NewJeans are planning to leave their label. Back in April, a very messy (and very public) feud broke out between the K-pop band, their parent company Hybe and their label Ador as a result of the label’s dropping of their CEO Min Hee-jin, the “mother” of the band. The long and short of it is: Ador thinks Min was trying to take “full control” of the label, backing Min into a corner and ultimately leading her to resign from both companies. Now, NewJeans wants out. In an emergency press meeting called yesterday, the band said that the company’s behaviour is “not the type of work ethic [they] respect, or want to be a part of,” announcing their intention to terminate their contract with Ador effective from midnight KST on 29 November.
NewJeans are planning to leave their label. Back in April, a very messy (and very public) feud broke out between the K-pop band, their parent company Hybe and their label Ador as a result of the label’s dropping of their CEO Min Hee-jin, the “mother” of the band. The long and short of it is: Ador thinks Min was trying to take “full control” of the label, backing Min into a corner and ultimately leading her to resign from both companies. Now, NewJeans wants out. In an emergency press meeting called yesterday, the band said that the company’s behaviour is “not the type of work ethic [they] respect, or want to be a part of,” announcing their intention to terminate their contract with Ador effective from midnight KST on 29 November.
Yale students will soon be able to take a course on Beyoncé. The course, titled Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics through Music, will allow students to examine the singer’s music through the lens of Black history, Black feminism and performance. “By looking at culture through Beyoncé, it can invite us to think about the extent to which art can articulate the world we live in,” Daphne Brooks, a professor of African American Studies and Music at the university, told Yale Daily News.
Lanvin is returning to Paris Fashion Week. Following a brief hiatus, the luxury French fashion house will mark its return to Paris in January. The co-ed show will debut the first collection from the house’s recently appointed artistic director, Peter Copping, and is said to embody what the house’s founder Jeanne Lanvin once called le Chic Ultime. Très excité!
