Dazed


Dazed is a bi-monthly British style magazine founded in 1991. It covers music, fashion, film, art, and literature. Dazed is published by Dazed Media, an independent media group known for producing stories across its print, digital and video brands. The company's portfolio includes titles AnOther, Dazed Beauty and NOWNESS. The company's newest division, Dazed Studio, creates brand campaigns across the luxury and lifestyle sectors. Based in London, its founding editors are Jefferson Hack and fashion photographer Rankin.

Background

Dazed was begun by Hack and Rankin Waddell while they were studying at London College of Printing. Beginning as a black-and-white folded poster published sporadically, the magazine soon turned full colour, and was promoted at London club nights. Today it is an independent youth culture magazine, distributed globally, covering fashion, art, music and lifestyle. Cover stars have included Björk, Kate Moss, David Bowie, Young Thug, Millie Bobby Brown, Amandla Stenberg, Marilyn Manson, Jazz Jennings, Thom Yorke, Kendall Jenner, Tilda Swinton, FKA Twigs., Rihanna, Selena Gomez and Billie Eilish. Dazed has built a reputation for publishing stories that use creativity to empower young people, setting trends in motion and redefining the status quo. Over the years Dazed has championed humanitarian causes, from AIDS in South Africa, giving blood, the refugee crisis, breast cancer awareness, Islamophobia, LGBT rights and women's rights to climate change. Dazed is the first fashion magazine to challenge beauty preconceptions by featuring disabled cover models.
Notable covers include:
Dazeddigital.com launched in November 2006 with a dedicated editorial and video team covering news, fashion, culture, music and art. Its editor is Anna Cafolla. Each year it publishes the Dazed 100, a list of the hundred most influential people shaping youth culture. The Dazed 100 ran in partnership with Calvin Klein CK One in 2016 and 2017, in 2018 the launch event was in partnership with YouTube Music, the 2020 list was in partnership with Converse . The list is interactive and ranked by readers. In 2015 the winner was Hari Nef. In 2016 the winner was Troye Sivan.. In 2017 the winner was Finn Wolfhard. In 2018 the winner was Holland. In 2019 the winner was La’Shaunae. In 2020 Dazed and Converse have partnered to establish the Dazed 100 Ideas Fund, no longer highlighting a single winner the online votes will fund creative and philanthropic ideas from the Dazed 100 list.

Dazed Beauty

In September 2018, Dazed launched Dazed Beauty, a community platform dedicated to redefining the language and communication of beauty. The platform celebrates identity, self-expression and creativity through the transformational power of beauty. It’s editor-in-chief is Bunney Kinney . Dazed Beauty has a website and Instagram page dedicated to spotlighting the people who are radically redefining beauty. The Dazed Beauty Community is an ever-expanding database of creatives and emerging talent from across the world who are redefining beauty norms.

Contributors

Dazed works with photographers including Paolo Roversi,, Ryan McGinley, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot, Alasdair McLellan, Sean and Seng, Collier Schorr, Harley Weir, Inez and Vinoodh, Juergen Teller, Willy Vanderperre Nick Knight, Mario Sorrenti, Ben Toms, and David Sims.
Notable people who have worked at Dazed over the years include Nicola Formichetti, Katie Grand, Charlotte Stockdale, Olivier Rizzo, Phil Poynter, Sylvia Farago, Katy England, Karen Langley and Alister Mackie.