Innehållsförteckning för Summer 2024 från Dazed & Confused

At Dazed, it's all about timing. Just over a month after we launch our summer issue, the Olympic cauldron will be lit in Paris, marking the start of a season of heart-stopping sporting drama. For so many young people worldwide, the Olympics represent more than just a chance to compete, but an opportunity to push the body and mind to new realms, and join an elite community of athleticism that defies world borders. As spectators, it brings us together too – in bars, on beaches, and under the blaze of summer. It felt right, then, to launch our READY, SET, GO! issue just in time for the starting pistol in France. But how could we make the Olympics our own, and tell individual stories of young icons bringing refreshing energy…

Today, you can travel to the other side of the world to a city like São Paulo and find, as I did, someone wearing a Crystal Palace FC jersey from the 1990s in a rave. For Kenny Annan-Jonathan, the revelation isn't a surprise when I mention it to him on Good Friday morning at an uncharacteristically empty 180 Strand. The 35-year-old design supremo is relaxed, inquisitive and grounded by his family, friends and faith. He has always known how big the Crystal Palace brand is, long before he signed on as the club's – and the Premier League's – first creative director last year. “I've always been someone who has kind of played in the shadows,” he says. “I definitely liken my journey to what Crystal Palace represents.” The marrying…

Grooming TAKUYA UCHIYAMA using BUMBLE AND BUMBLE., photographic assistant RORY COLE, styling assistants STOYAN CHUCHURANOV, ALVARO MERINO DE MENDOZA, ELOISE COLLET, production assistant GRACE CUTHBERTSON “COMFORT IS SUICIDE” is just one of the many Art of War-style mantras littering London collective No Soldiers Left Behind's (NSLB) Instagram feed. “NO INDIVIDUAL IS ABOVE THE FAMILY,” is another. Forged by friends Femi, Joey and FK in 2023, NSLB is a semi-anonymous London collective merging fitness and streetwear culture, hosting guerilla clothing popups, guided exercise events and video campaigns alongside military-style Saturday workout sessions. “You could say our main focus is fitness, but we're also just tryna show mandem how to be creative and challenge ourselves,” says Femi. “Initially we hit the gym together, focusing on heavy lifting and weights. Soon, stiffness and…

“Once I set my mind to something, I make it come true. That doesn't mean I just sit back and wish upon a star. I put in the work. I control the natural and let God control the super – that's how you create the supernatural” The American sprinter Noah Lyles was dancing at a club in Budapest in the summer of 2023, when he started receiving texts from friends, urging him to check his social media accounts. The Florida-born Olympian – the preeminent star of the world of track and field – had plenty to celebrate that night, after becoming the first athlete since Usain Bolt to win gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m races at the World Championships. His phone, however, wasn't blowing up with heartfelt…

Dating has become an Olympic sport of fuckery – about as painstaking as a pentathlon (I imagine), with about as much grandeur and prestige as the shot put (sorry, guys). Online dating, specifically, has brought a whole new meaning to ‘race against the clock’, and its immediacy has led many into an era of streamlining and dating optimisation, where max-efficiency trumps all. With data from leading players in the online dating market, we explore all the competitive clans on the apps. A need for speed runs through each, with different tactics and goals along the way. Welcome to ‘the trenches’, as they say. The time-savers From ten-minute micro-dates to co-working coffees, these people are sprinting through the dating experience. They screen dates scrupulously, sidelining spontaneity in favour of multitasking, like…

Grooming TAKUYA UCHIYAMA using BUMBLE AND BUMBLE., photographic assistants RORY COLE, styling assistants STOYAN CHUCHURANOV, ALVARO MERINO DE MENDOZA, ELOISE COLLET, production assistant GRACE CUTHBERTSON Tom Austin was your average happy-go-lucky suburban teen in 2020 when he was featured in a Milton Keynes local newspaper, following the chart-hitting success of his lockdown anthem, “Who's That What's That”. Since then, under the musical alias of Niko B, he has opened for NSG, performed at Reading and Leeds festivals, and blown up our phones with the meme-rap freestyle “Love Island”, packed with quotables about being picked last around the firepit and crying in the back of the tour bus. “I was watching a ton of cyphers at the time and my mate [Joe McDermott] who runs Victory Lap let me go crazy…

My Chat Kaashvi Hiranandani didn't plan on being a professional gamer – most people don't. She gave up a career in finance and an MBA for this life. A life of late-night streams on YouTube, where the Indian version of PUGB: Battlegrounds and Battlegrounds Mobile India get her thousands of views. “I'm the least educated in my family,” Hiranandani chuckles, “even my grandmother has done her master's degree.” As with most places, gaming in India is not a traditional career path or one that people associate with women in particular. But the gaming market in India is booming. Because an estimated 1.2 billion people have a phone in India, mobile games are preferred over desktop ones. According to a 2022 Reuters report, Indians access more mobile games than people in…

All clothes and accessories worn throughout DIOR MEN FALL 2024 Hair PIERPAOLO LAI at JULIAN WATSON AGENCY, make-up LUCIANO CHIARELLO at JULIAN WATSON AGENCY, model AARON SHANDEL at WILHELMINA, set design EDITH DI MONDA STUDIO, photographic assistant GIANLUCA MALAVOLTA, styling assistant MIRELLA VIALE MARCHINO, hair assistant EUGENIO COLELLA, make-up assistant CLAUDIA MELIS, production SIYAN CHEN, production assistants RUOCHEN MEI, LYDIA FARDE, casting MISCHA NOTCUTT at 11CASTING…

“I want to be known as a great football player, great person and I want people to respect my game” It's the day after a frustrating finish from Manchester United – conceding a late goal in a draw with relegation-facing Burnley – and I've arrived at Manchester Piccadilly station. Sixth in the Premier League at the time of writing with four games to play, the team are all but out of the Champions League reckoning, but there is still hope of qualifying for the Europa League. To leapfrog the likes of Aston Villa and Newcastle is one thing, but to outdo their longtime local rivals Manchester City, currently on track for a historic record-breaking fourth consecutive Premier League win, is another. United are the only other team to have even…

“Fifteen per cent of the world's population has a disability; if you put us all together we'd make a big country as big as China. You shouldn't be interviewing me but them!” Call time is set at 10.30am. Despite Rome's legendary traffic, at 10.30 sharp Bebe Vio enters. She's the kind of person who smiles with her eyes – huge, deep blue eyes. She's got a ‘Come on, let's do it!’ attitude that permeates the room. “Just make sure you don't cover the scars” is her only recommendation on set for the shoot. “So many clothes. If it was up to me, I'd be happy with a tank top and leggings.” The glamour of fashion doesn't concern her, yet she won't stop until the job's done. From one shot to…

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The straight-combed, long black hair, the puffy eyelashes, the blush, and all the pomp and circumstance. It might take a few hours for Bruna Nunes to dress up and put all her make-up on, but she'll do it regardless – even if it means arriving a bit late to our Zoom interview. “If I'm not wearing my eyelashes and my hair is not clean and combed, I can't show up in any video,” she laughs. Flaunting 600,000 followers on Instagram and posting selfies here and there, Nunes could be a trapstar, a famous actress or a model. But instead of catwalks, her runways are the roads of Brazil, which she tears down on a motorbike – and often on just one wheel. “I'm a favela girl, I'm tough, I'm a…

Sheyi Cole and I roar and double high-five when Chelsea FC's starboy Cole Palmer scores an icecold penalty then the winner in extra time against Manchester United. Given we're in the same epic #ProperChels group chat, meeting to watch a match and talk in person was overdue. The actor arrives at his local pub in Tulse Hill, south London with a wide smile and hug, we settle upstairs with pints and jerk chicken, and he contemplates every question I ask deeply with one eye fixed on the game. The 25-year-old has supported Chelsea since nursery and coincidentally, his mum once did security at Stamford Bridge. Clear on the qualities that Blues fans share – “pure wear-our-heart-on-our-sleeve passion, and we're pompous off the back of our success” – his favourite moment…

“Some people have really beautiful elbows,” says fashion designer Johanna Parv, thrusting her arm towards me to observe. She's dashing around her cosy east London studio – an ex-frame factory that first opened in 1900 but is now home to a flock of artists, designers and other tormented, yet impeccably dressed, creatives. It's a grey day outside and the studio isn't much brighter, just a blur of dark, tonal materials. Parv's demeanour makes up for any lack of colour. The 31-year-old is vibrant and passionate, with a punchy, blunt assuredness that will catch you off guard. Each time she sits down she's up again within 30 seconds, throwing sample after sample in my direction, demonstrating how her clothes can conceal or reveal different parts of the body (hence the elbow…

Before we begin – before we get into Dopamine, the effervescent, years-in-the-making debut album by pop superstar Normani, and all she had to endure to get here – let's get one thing straight. “Motivation”? That song that dropped in 2019 and felt, in some way, like a cultural reset? The track that, in all likelihood, has soundtracked many of your summers and still opens your running playlists? Normani thought it was mid when it came out. And she still thinks it's kinda mid. “I didn't like that song, I'm gonna be honest. It just felt really easy – it felt like the right thing to do, but it didn't necessarily feel authentic,” she says over Zoom from her home in Los Angeles, her mouth curling into a wry smile. The…

Hair KEI TERADA at JULIAN WATSON AGENCY using ORIBE, make-up CELIA BURTON using DIOR FOREVER FOUNDATION and CAPTURE TOTALE LE SÉRUM, nails LIIA ZOTOVA at FUTURE REP using CND, model LIBBY BENNETT at BOUNDARY MANAGEMENT, movement director SIMON DONNELLON at NEW SCHOOL REPRESENTS, styling assistants NATHAN FOX, LUCY PROCTOR, hair assistant TAKUMI HORIWAKI, make-up assistant EMILY ENGLEMAN, lighting assistants IVANO PAGNUSSAT, SAM LORT, digital operator GILES SMITH, production KIT PAK-POY at ARTWORLD, production assistant ADAM WELLS at ARTWORLD, retouching THE HAND OF GOD, casting MISCHA NOTCUTT at 11 CASTING, casting assistant OPHELIA HORTON…

Blackpool is a mid-sized seaside resort town in the north west of England. Its population swells in different seasonal inflection points, stag parties and hen dos descending from the end of winter for the karaoke bars and casinos, tourists bussing in for fish and chips and the Pleasure Beach's thrilling – if rickety – rollercoasters as the weather gets milder. It's in May, at the hallowed Winter Gardens venue, that a global community gathers for the world's first and foremost ballroom dance competition. For two weeks every May since 1920 – except during wartime – ballroom dancers have landed in town for the Blackpool Dance Festival. Five significant competitions for dancesport (the name for competitive ballroom dancing) take place here through the year, but these 14 days are red-circled in…