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Time Out
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Teo Della Torre
Will the comestible wonders of Rye Lane never cease? Peckham's perma-packed main drag currently offers everything from indulgent Malaysian cookery (Janda Diner), to rooftop picantes (Forza Wine), one of the cheapest pints of non-'Spoons Guinness in London (Nag's Head), and impeccable Nigerian barbecue (Suuyar). The exact point where Saigon canteen culture meets the contents of Charli xcx's Dropbox Follow the smoke drifting across the road from Suyaar and you'll find the latest addition to SE15's substantial food trail, Lai Rai. A new-school Vietnamese with an adamantly 'no pho' menu, Lai Rai has local roots (it's run by the same family as nearby Bánh Bánh) but is a snackier, share-ier proposition than its big bowl-proffering sibling. Lai Rai's discreet shopfront is immediately rendered indiscreet thanks to a red-and-white striped awning nabbed from a passing funfair. Inside, Lai Rai continues with its endearing brand of intensity. Lit by red neon and with a clinical stainless steel counter, the rest of the small space is a jumble of high and low tables (there's also an airier, less full-on upstairs level); suggesting the exact point where Saigon canteen culture meets the contents of Charli xcx's Dropbox. We match the chaotic energy and start with a mango-muddled picante complete with strands of potent red chilli, and so begins a fast and furious assault of flavour. A bowl of slow-braised pork belly pieces, sweet and sticky nugs of crispy, crunchy, and fatty flesh, could be kids' cinema sweets, were they not pig. Lighter, but by no means less addictive, is the papaya jellyfish salad with pellets of juicy pineapple and smooshed tomatoes, all slugged together with peanuts, a windowbox of fresh Vietnamese herbs and yet more chillis. It glows the colour of a particularly lovely sunset and toiters adeptly across the tightrope of sweet/savoury. Another hefty 'small plate' is piled with fleshy beef tartare, cut with lumps of cucumber and simply begging to be scooped up with shiso leaves. On top are crushed crackers and another brace of peanuts, making this textural symphony perhaps more meat salad than pure tartare, but we're not complaining. Big plates aren't much different in size from their forebears, though crispy chicken leg, fried twice for extra crunch, is a beast of a thing, bobbing about on green herb dressing. We like it, but we like the mussels in coconut and lemongrass broth more, and are smug to have ordered the bahn mi (basically bits of baguette) instead of a side of rice, and set about soaking bread in the fragrant liquid until it almost disintegrates. Pudding is more simple, with fish sauce and vanilla caramel icecream a pescetarian take on salted caramel, and kumquat cucumber sorbet more like a frozen mint mojito than anything of its advertised ingredients. While Peckham might already have a million places to eat, Lai Rai has immediately marked itself out as one to visit very, very soon. The vibe A sweetly chaotic little spot for Peckham's fashion crowd.
Evening Standard
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
When will the cowboy boot trend finally die? Plus three styles to wear instead
Right, right, settle down. I know these are already popular. But their time is not done. The Moto boot is set to stick around. They still featured heavily on the runways for AW25, plus fashion-forward celebrities like Dua Lipa and Charli xcx can't get enough (see: Lipa wearing them with shorts and an oversized graphic tee to BST with Callum Turner this month). You still have time to invest, and there's no better time than now, before they hit a price peak ahead of autumn.
Perth Now
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Oh Lorde! NZ singer to make Perth final stop of Aus tour
Alternative pop songstress Lorde has announced she'll be bringing her Ultrasound World Tour to Australia in February 2026, including a final stop in Perth on February 25. Following appearances in her native New Zealand, the 28-year-old will soak in the last of Australia's summer with singular performances in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne before ending her tour at RAC Arena. Lorde will perform hits from her fourth studio album Virgin which she released in June, with the single What Was That marking her first original drop in four years. 'This album broke me apart and forged a new creature out of me. I am so proud to stand before you today as her, grateful for this beautiful life spent singing to myself and to you, for as long as you'll have me,' she told fans on social media. Lorde will return to the Aussie stage in February 2026. Credit: Frontier Touring Born Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, the singer-songwriter exploded onto the scene as a teenager in 2013 with the Grammy Award-winning hit Royals and her debut album Pure Heroine. She has since been elevated to pop royalty in her own right, collaborating with party girl Charli xcx, and rubbing shoulders with Perth's Troye Sivan and American sensation Billie Eilish. Acclaimed for her euphoric sounds and introspective lyrics, Lorde's return to number one on the ARIA Albums Chart complements her 33 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Torye Sivan, Lorde, Charli xcx and Billie Eilish at Coachella. Credit: Charli xcx Based in London, the singer's forthcoming tour marks her first official Australian stage shows since 2023. Perth motorists might recall facing gridlock at the Swan Valley's Belvoir Amphitheatre as she prepared to hit the stage. The lord of the dance floor shocked Sydney revellers in May this year when she rocked up to a themed club night dedicated to her. Quickly detected among the sea of party goers, she was seen singing along to her own bops and even joined the DJ on stage. More recently, the Green Light singer delivered a powerful performance to thousands of adoring fans at the iconic Glastonbury Festival on June 27, the same day of her album release. If you'd like to view this content, please adjust your . To find out more about how we use cookies, please see our Cookie Guide. Stripping down to a silver bralette and pants, it signified her renewed confidence following a public battle with mental health and eating disorders that plagued her mid-20s. The Tennis Court singer will begin her world tour in September with sold out tours in the US, before heading to Europe in November. General sale tickets for her Aussie dates will be available from Friday July 18, with pre-sale available earlier for American Express and Frontier Touring members.
Refinery29
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Refinery29
Fashion Is Eating Itself: Why People Are Wearing Their Clothes 'Wrong'
Men's shirts as skirts. Blouses tied into strapless tops. Pants as scarves. Wearing your clothes 'wrong' might sound like a hack from a five-minute craft video, but these looks are turning up on runways and street style roundups from Fashion Weeks across the world. In fact, 'misworn' clothing was one of the most iconic fashion looks of the entire year, although this detail flew largely under the radar. In Charli xcx's video for Guess (and that smouldering photo of her and Billie Eilish that was everywhere), Charli wears a skirt made from a repurposed nightdress by cult Parisian label All-In Studios, in what was arguably the most recognisable look of the entire BRAT era. And just last month, the pop star doubled down on misworn clothing in her party 4 u video with another All-In piece: a dress stitched together from polka-dot foulard scarves. It's the fashion equivalent of the BRAT remix album: it ' s a dress and it ' s completely different but it ' s also still a dress. But how did miswearing your clothes go from a DIY gimmick to a serious sartorial power move? It's a trend that's part of a larger cultural shift away from hyper-curated, cohesive aesthetics and towards a particular brand of chaotic messiness. This transition has been fuelled by our drift into post-irony, as well as a growing exhaustion with consuming the endless churn of aesthetics being pushed onto our feeds. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Refinery29 Australia (@refinery29au) We've seen this shift towards chaos in the rise of 'ugly' fashion (like Crocs) and intentionally mismatched outfits like TikTok's viral ' wrong shoe theory '. There's a kind of anti-logic that's been shaping the way we dress, and lately, it feels like fashion has entered a funhouse hall of mirrors. It's not just that aesthetics are looping back on themselves, but everything looks a bit warped. Even proportions feel distorted, like the baggy jorts and knee-high boots combo that trended last summer. Things that are 'off' are 'in', and the culmination of this sartorial approach teeters wonderfully on the absurd: wearing your clothes wrong. This aesthetic of 'misworn clothing' has been playing out across the fashion world, with luxury label (and a stylist's favourite) Hodakova taking the trend to the extreme in their Paris Spring/Summer 25 runway show (see: this trouser headpiece). And it's not just niche designers leaning into the miswearing trend either — at Australian Fashion Week, Love Island 's Em Miguel-Leigh was spotted styling an oversized men's polo slung around her hips as a makeshift skirt. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Em Miguel-Leigh (@dragonsweep) The upcycled ensembles sported by Charli xcx and others are more than just thrifty repurposing. These clothes deliberately subvert the original garment, with redundant sleeves, fastenings and design details that blur the line between function and form. Recontextualising is nothing new in couture — but now, fashion is subverting itself, cannibalising its own logic. Draw a Venn diagram of BRAT and Dadaism, and this is what you'll find right in the centre. 'To be fashion, you actually have to be anti-fashion,' says Niamh Galea Dal Masetto of beloved Sydney label Ramp Tramp Tramp Stamp (RTTS), which counts Gabbriette among its fans. Niamh launched RTTS in 2018 and has since gained a cult following for her off-kilter designs that upcycle garments in creative, unexpected ways. One of Niamh's early pieces — a harness top latticed with deadstock lingerie elastics — was created in response to a former workplace critiquing her for not wearing a bra. 'I was determined to wear a bra as required, but in the least practical way possible [and] for it to not achieve anything they wanted … That experience led me to thinking about subverting the meaning of clothing.' This rebellious and playful approach shines through RTTS's designs, and it's little wonder the brand's been embraced by the young creative crowd. 'There's so much obsession with looking 'good' or looking 'right',' Niamh says. 'Sometimes, it's pretty freeing to just allow yourself not to'. That attitude — of not just being okay with looking imperfect, but aestheticising it — is exactly why misworn clothing is having its moment. This shift tracks with the rise of post-irony more broadly in our culture: you only have to compare today's 'unfiltered' Instagram photo dumps to the millennial earnestness of 2010s Insta to see just how much our self-expression is shaped by a reflexive kind of self-awareness. And in this hyper-referential landscape — where it's impossible to consume anything without witnessing our own consumption of it — it makes sense that fashion is folding in on itself, collapsing under the weight of its own irony. And perhaps we've just about run out of aesthetics to consume altogether. With the TikTok-ification of style, it feels like we've sped-run every subculture of the last century, hollowed them out to wear their hides, only to toss them a week later. The flood of 'cores' has become so intense, it's starting to erode meaning altogether (tomato girl??). And as Niamh points out, it's chipping away at personal style, too: 'You can go on TikTok, type any designer's name, and you'll find a video of someone telling you how to dress like a Miu Miu girl or a Chopova Lowena girl — and you can achieve it.' It tracks that the next trend isn't another aesthetic — it's an anti-aesthetic. Instead of following another set of rules, it's about knowing how to break them. It's a new language of cool that speaks in subversion, self-awareness and self-referentiality. To subvert a piece of clothing you need three things: (A) The cultural fluency to know what it is you're subverting, (B) the imagination to rewrite the narrative and (C) the taste to pull it off. Subverting takes you from a trend-follower to an author, and that's what makes it so stylistically compelling. It's why the cargo capris you were flamed for in eighth grade are a hot commodity on Depop and why Bella Hadid can pull off almost anything. It's not just that our aesthetic sensibilities towards an item have changed, it's that we have the ability to recast its meaning. So, does that mean you can just grab anything from your closet, wear it totally wrong, call it subversive post-ironic dressing and expect to end up on a best-dressed list? According to Niamh, 'It all comes down to intention.' Meaning, it's not just what you wear — it's how you wear it, and whether you're aware of what you're doing. But if you don't quite manage to pull it off? That's fine, too. 'Maybe you are aiming for ridiculousness. It's quite fascinating to dress ridiculously, which I do every now and then … sometimes the most wonderful thing is to get comfortable with not looking 'good'." If current fashion logic is anything to go by, the concept of 'good' might become redundant altogether — just like the sleeves on a shirt-skirt.
Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Chappell Roan Calls Out Fans' Exes at Primavera Sound (Including One Who ‘Hooked Up' With Their Ex's Mom)
Chappell Roan gets the job done — and in this case, that job is publicly shaming her fans' terrible exes, including one who was apparently a little too fond of their family. At her headlining Primavera Sound set Saturday (June 7), the pop star took a break during a performance of her Billboard Hot 100 top 5 single 'The Giver' to draw slips of paper submitted by audience members out of a hat. 'Now, I asked some of you to give me the names of your exes, and why they didn't get the job done,' she explained into the microphone, as captured in a video shared on X. More from Billboard Primavera Sound's 9 Best Moments: Charli xcx Sweats, Chappell Roan Soars & More Kylie Minogue Joins Prestigious '21 Club' at London's O2 Arena Kevin Parker Previews New Tame Impala Music During Barcelona DJ Set The entries progressively got worse, with Roan leading the crowd in a loud round of booing after she read each one aloud. 'He only knew how to use his fingers to play video games,' she began. 'Boo!' 'Didn't wash his balls,' the visibly disgusted Grammy winner read from the second slip. 'Boo!' When she glanced at the third entry, Roan remarked that she'd 'saved the worst for last.' 'Hooked up with my mom,' the paper read, causing the audience to audibly groan. But the best/worst part came when the 'Pink Pony Club' singer revealed that the anonymous fan's mom and ex in question were both in attendance. 'They are all in the crowd tonight,' Roan read. 'Boo!' After the exes were thoroughly shamed, the Missouri native moved back to center stage and continued with the rest of the performance. 'Well you should've asked me, baby — you know why?' Roan said before belting out the signature line in 'The Giver': ''Cause I get the job done!' Roan was one of three festival headliners over the weekend, with Sabrina Carpenter and Charli xcx also taking the main stage at different points. During the British pop star's set, big screens captured Roan in the audience doing the viral 'Apple' dance. This year's Primavera Sound comes a couple months after Roan dropped 'The Giver' in March, marking her first piece of new music since 'Good Luck, Babe!' dropped in 2024. The former debuted at No. 5 on the Hot 100, while the latter peaked at No. 4. Fans are hopeful that Roan will release a new album soon. Originally released in 2023, her debut LP The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess steadily climbed the charts — peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 last August — following a whirlwind year of growth for the star in 2024. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
