Isobel Van Dyke

London

Life and Style Writer at Dazed Magazine

Articles

Sophie Thatcher and Amelia Gray are the stars of Valentino’s AW25 campaign

1 week ago | dazeddigital.com | Isobel Van Dyke

“We live in an era of violent uproar,” writes Alessandro Michele in the release for Valentino’s AW25 campaign film, titled The Poetics of Everyday. “The everyday is not a backdrop that animates only when the extraordinary steps in,” he continues, encouraging us to appreciate our daily routines. The little things that may seem ordinary, but bring us joy, no matter how small – like going for ice cream, unpuzzling a Rubik’s Cube or going for a bike ride, for example.
Jonathan Anderson is Dior Men’s new creative director

1 week ago | dazeddigital.com | Isobel Van Dyke

41 Images After much speculation, Jonathan Anderson is officially heading to Dior. As announced today (April 17) by Bernard Arnault during the LVMH annual shareholders meeting, Anderson will be taking the reins as creative director of menswear, replacing Kim Jones who left the brand in January. Anderson is set to present his debut collection for the maison during Paris Fashion Week Men's this June.
Tyson On Music, Motherhood and Making Space

1 week ago | 10magazine.com | Isobel Van Dyke

In 2025, the UK’s music scene is a sublime, bubbling broth made up of many ingredients. It’s rich with the flavour of countless genres, each thriving in their own right. Pop, rap, rave, R&B, jazz, jungle, neo-soul, indie, electronic, you name it – in every corner we have world-class pioneers leading the way and, simultaneously, ripping up the rule book. Featured inside 10 Magazine Issue 74, a portfolio of musicians all vary in age, genre, background, sexuality and stages of career.
Aries founder Sofia Prantera: ‘Sexism is rife in fashion’

1 week ago | dazeddigital.com | Isobel Van Dyke

9 Images In case you haven’t noticed, it’s Aries season. A time for new beginnings, restarts and taking control of our futures. It’s also the perfect time for cult London streetwear label Aries to launch its 400-page book Aries Arise Archive, which takes us deep into the brand’s 15-year history. Aries was founded in 2009 by Central Saint Martins grads Sofia Prantera and Fergus Purcell, who met while working at Shoreditch skateboard shop Slam City Skates during the 90s.
Fashion flies the motherplane into Milan Design Week

1 week ago | dazeddigital.com | Isobel Van Dyke

Milan Fashion Week may already happen four times a year, but now it seems fashion’s heavyweights are coming for the city’s design week too. Home to the world’s biggest and most prestigious furniture trade fair, Salone del Mobile, Milan Design Week takes place every April and is currently in full swing, ending on April 13. Also in full swing are the many fashion installations, for example...
Meet the 7 designers competing for sustainable fashion’s top prize

2 weeks ago | dazeddigital.com | Isobel Van Dyke

7 Images This year marks the fifth edition of the sustainable fashion awards Challenge The Fabric, hosted by the Ekman Group and organised by the Swedish Fashion Council. Its goal? ‘To promote innovation and challenge the fashion system by encouraging a switch to biobased and/or recycled materials.’Each finalist is invited to create one look using made-man cellulose fibres (MMCF).
Nabihah Iqbal Is In Her Healing Era

2 weeks ago | 10magazine.com | Isobel Van Dyke

Nabihah Iqbal’s 2023 sophomore album, Dreamer, almost never happened. A genre-blurring collection of electronic-meets-indie dance tracks, she describes the album as the “most important music [I’ve] made in [my] life,” though it was a tough process. “I went through a really hard time. A lot of bad stuff happened in the process of trying to make this record. There was a time I didn’t think I’d be able to finish it.
Miss Sixty is back with the help of Bella Hadid and Machine-A

2 weeks ago | dazeddigital.com | Isobel Van Dyke

This decade’s inescapable resurgence of y2k fashion has brought with it with an onslaught of flip phones, oversized belts, denim mini skirts, low-waisted everything and the revival of some of our most beloved 00s labels. The likes of Morgan de Toi and Diesel have surged in popularity on Depop and Vinted, and even Forever 21 items are being sold for close to $300. Now Miss Sixty is officially back.
Chy Cartier Is Just Getting Started

3 weeks ago | 10magazine.com | Isobel Van Dyke

At the time of our interview, Chy Cartier, 20, is teasing new music on her Instagram Stories. One untitled track, which fans are begging for her to release in the comments, namechecks Pharrell and Rick Owens, proving her love of fashion as well as music. “Fashion goes hand in hand with music, it’s a way to express yourself before anyone speaks to you,” she tells me in her cheeky North London twang. She’s the kind of person who gets straight to the point and doesn’t expand on her answers.
What’s exciting young designers in fashion right now?

3 weeks ago | dazeddigital.com | Isobel Van Dyke

Yesterday evening (April 2), guests gathered inside Milan’s Palazzo del Ghiaccio to celebrate the International Woolmark Prize 2025. The competition’s artistic director and Dazed’s editor-in-chief IB Kamara was joined on stage by industry legend Donatella Versace, who together, presented this year’s award to Dutch designer Duran Lantink. “Thank you to all the people who have supported me from the beginning.