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‘Health is wealth’ is not just a saying, because we should all be taking the best possible care of ourselves we can.
Believe it or not, one of the things that has been helping me lately is just carving out some chill time.
There’s much to be said for slowing down – and enjoying some quality new content that can help you escape the real world for a little bit.
‘Dead to Me’ Season 3
The new season of “Dead to Me,” starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini, will be the dark comedy series’ last.
As the show’s title suggests, Applegate and Cardellini’s characters share a deadly connection; it’s the kind of twist-filled buddy series you didn’t know you needed.
I am especially invested in this last season given Applegate’s revelation that she has multiple sclerosis. She appears to be navigating the difficult illness with grace, humor and chutzpah, making the performance she turned in all the more remarkable.
“Dead to Me” is streaming on Netflix.
‘The Santa Clauses’
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In January 2020, while home in Arizona during winter break from
the University of Portland, his sister, Tatum, introduced him to TikTok. “She
had, like, 8,000 followers, and I thought, ‘Wow, that’s a lot,’” Beck said. “I
was the annoying little brother who was like, ‘I bet you in two weeks, I’ll
have more followers than you’.”اضافة اعلان
He posted two videos, including a nine-second one in which he
lip-synced rap lyrics from a Megan Thee Stallion song. Shot in his bedroom with
an iPhone, it had all the mundane markings of a suburban teenager’s life: white
T-shirt, floppy hair, string lights, walls covered with photos and posters.
It went nowhere. But a few months later, when the pandemic shut
down campus life everywhere, the video mysteriously took off. “When I woke up,
I had 20,000 followers,” he said. “And each video had, like, 300,000 views. I
thought it was a glitch.”
Today, Beck, 21, has more than 34 million followers on TikTok,
putting him a bit behind Kylie Jenner (49.1 million) and girlfriend of two
years, Dixie D’Amelio (57.5 million) — more on that later. He has gone from
being an anonymous college student training to be a professional soccer player
to a TikTok superstar who, in recent months, sat in the front row at Paris
Fashion Week, wore a white tuxedo to the Cannes premiere of “Top Gun: Maverick”, modeled for AMI Paris, and played in a celebrity…
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Ye, formally known as Kanye West, has had an eventful year thus far. HedatedJulia Fox,walkedin a Balenciaga fashion show during Paris Fashion Week and lost multiple fashion brand connections.
Ye has a history of mental illness, and his divorce with Kim Kardashian — and Kardasian’s recent relationship with Pete Davidson — seemed to have sent Ye into a downward spiral. People experience heartbreak in different ways, however Ye took things in a poor direction and became a verycontroversialfigure in the fashion world. I love drama, so of course, I had to get in on the action and give a breakdown of all the events that led to Ye’s ultimate fashion demise that cost the celebrity over$1 billion.
The Beginning
It all started during Paris Fashion Week when Ye decided to throw an impromptu Yeezy Season 9 fashion show. Hedebuteda t-shirt with the pope on the front and “White Lives Matter” emblazoned across the back during the show. Ye and Candace Owens wore the t-shirt as well as some of the models who walked the runway.
Before the show, Ye gave a speech where he hinted at his difficulties withGap. The Yeezy Gap contract was supposed to run until 2030. However, Ye’s lawyers accused Gap of not properly distributing Yeezy Gap merchandise in its stores, and Gap didn’t open the dedicated Yeezy Gap stores in 2021 as…
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Here are some solid starting point products to test drive the bleached brow
Here are some solid starting point products to test drive the bleached brow
No brows speak more volume. The reductive process of bleaching creates a transformational effect. The eyebrows are the framework of the face, and as the framework they hold the power of relaying emotion. The simple removal of the eyebrow leaves you feeling unrecognizable. Therefore, when appearing undetectable there is a futuristic and otherworldly quality about the individual. The beauty of the natural sculpture of the face is exhibited through the freedom of the eyes.
Taking off in the fashion industry—models on and off the runway, and everyday artists have been sporting the new invisible accessory. High fashion model Bella Hadid has been seen fronting the trend during New York Fashion Week, and carrying it over to Milan and Paris.
Celebrities such as Julia Fox, Kendall Jenner, and Kim Kardashian have also carried editorial covers and met gala appearances by the simple transformation of the arch. Platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have taken over the media as more street style and everyday looks have embraced the macroscopic effect of the effortless beauty hack. Regardless of hair color—the bleached brow pairs with any look. Simple makeup hacks such as concealer can be used as a quick eyebrow-lightening remedy, but until you take the plunge into testing out bleach kits, the full transformation will not be…
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It’s Britney Spears return day! And just like our favourite twirling pop star who’s been teasing us with new music for a while and has now finally delivered, the AW22 collections we coveted when we saw them go down the runway are now making themselves available for us to purchase (one wait was six years and the other was six months, but you get the point). And with the collections, of course, comes some breathtaking campaign visuals. There’s an Oscar-worthy Gucci moment, Burberry’s spotlighting of community and Dior Men transcending time. We hear you screaming gimme more though and so there’s also an exciting new Browns exclusive, Courrèges x David Sims and an Adidas sneaker from Parisian-brand Song for the Mute. Here’s what’s in fashion.
Images courtesy of Gucci
Gucci hacks Kubrick for its exquisite campaign
Fashion and film are, of course, old bedfellows, but there are few houses quite as obsessed with the world as seen on the big screen as Gucci. An avid cinephile, Alessandro Michele’s work has always been imbued with a transformative, cinematic quality — a sense that his clothes are designed to elevate their wearers above prosaic normality; to cast them as characters in their very own epics. “I’ve always imagined my collections as films able to convey a cinematography of the present: a score of stories, eclectic and dissonant, that can sacralize the human and its metamorphic ability,” he writes in a new release. It’s a fact evident in examples like the seven-part series he created in collaboration with Gus van Sant, Ouverture of Something that Never Ended, and Love Parade, the house’s centenary show on Hollywood Boulevard.
For the campaign for Exquisite Gucci, the collection presented by the house during Milan Fashion Week back in February, Alessandro and the team not only chose to celebrate cinema, but to hack the silver screen, and write the collection into annals of cinematic history itself. A powerful homage to Stanley Kubrick — “A philosophic filmmaker who, better than others, emanated the magic of that inextricable knot through which cinema exudes life and magnifies it,” Alessandro says — it sees some of the most iconic scenes from the “sculptor of genres” most emblematic films — The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut and Barry Lyndon — recreated with looks from the collection at their heart.
“Sticking to my creative praxis, I seized those movies,…
When Beyoncé wrote the lyric “it should cost a billion to look this good”, there’s no doubt she was referring to Christine Quinn in a frayed denim Balmain minidress and a french fry handbag, causing drama on Selling Sunset. Over five seasons the villainness with a high-end wardrobe and an even higher ponytail has brought all the fashion and entertainment to the million-dollar-house-selling reality series. Sadly, though, it has been reported her time on the show has come to an end.
Let’s tell it like it is. We weren’t tuning in to see brokers ringing a bell when their property is in escrow (we’re still not even quite sure what that word means). No, we were there to watch Christine roll her eyes at them when they did. We watched for the ASMR of her acrylic nails tapping absolutely nothing work-related into her Macbook, or the chaotically-themed open houses she threw — which we half-suspect were purely organised so that she could expense botox, couture and caviar (we would too!). We watched for her turning up to the office to wreak havoc in the relationships and friendships of her colleagues wearing trompe l’oeil naked bodysuits, Bratz doll heels and head-to-toe Chanel.
But while she may not be returning to the Netflix series, a few Fashion Week appearances over the recent seasons – and becoming a Balenciaga babe – suggest we’re sure to see many more iconic looks from Christine Quinn, this time on the runway or sitting front row, rather than a Beverly Hills listing. Nonetheless, here are some of our favourite chaotic evil queen’s best fashion moments thus far.
‘Selling Sunset’, Season 1 Episode 8, 2019
Christine has a habit of showing up anyone who dares to stand within a 10 ft radius of her. Case in point, this time she casually strutted through LA traffic in this patchwork animal print leotard alongside a pair of skin-tight sheer lace trousers that made Mary look like she’d pulled on her white playsuit straight out of a Shein package.
‘Selling Sunset’, Season 3 Episode 3, 2020
This moto-chic look is cute and fashion forward, but what we’re really here for is the never-ending, floor-scraping ponytail. Christine makes fashion look so easy. If that was us we would have already tripped down the stairs twice and our tresses would be knotted with street litter, a stray cat and cigarette butts.
On her wedding day, 2020
Resplendent with gothic opulence, Christine Quinn’s wedding was the stuff of Wednesday…
Driven by a host of rebel cultures emerging in the 70s, London was poised to redefine global pop culture in the decade to follow. The 80s saw the proliferation of homegrown styles like punk, glam, mods, 2Tone, rockabilly, skins and suedes — youth culture was cresting at its greatest height since the Swinging 60s took the world by storm. But this time, it had been sharpened to a razor-sharp edge that came from surviving the 1970s, and knowing that you were truly on your own in the world.
No longer bound by respectability politics that had dominated British society for centuries, youth stood proudly against the status quo. Defying decorum, they embraced anarchy and androgyny alike, transgressing the boundaries of gender expression far before the word “fluid” came into vogue. New Romantic dandies, post-punk peacocks and glamorous goths alike preened themselves on the streets while artists like Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, and Pete Burns paraded through homes in that new-fangled medium known as the music video. With the explosion of visual culture, music and fashion would never be the same.
The Ace Brixton
Halfway around the globe in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, Jane Simon devoured NME every week, keeping her abreast of the latest developments in the UK music scene. As a teen, Jane got a job writing commercials at rock music radio station 5KA and caught artists like The Police, The Stranglers, and Elvis Costello when they came to town, as well as local punk bands like Radio Birdman. “The underground scene in Adelaide was very small,” Jane says. “I was very into the music: it was new and exciting, and everyone was outraged by it. That was great!”
But in her heart, Jane knew that she was missing out. Then one night, everything changed. The editor of a local music paper had just returned from a trip to London, and Jane gave him a lift home. In the car, he regaled her with tales walking down the Kings Road and bumping into Paul Simonon of the Clash and Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders. “I just said to him, ‘Oh Donald, you’re so full of shit. I could do that!’” she says. “So I went out the next day, bought a plane ticket, and came to London.”
Kensington Market
Jane, then 20, arrived in the UK with just £200 and her mother’s coat in hand. “I thought I’d be in London for six months — and I’m still here,” she says. After staying a couple of weeks at a Bayswater hostel, Jane rented a room in a house up the New…
Ronnie Spector was the original “bad girl of rock and roll.” Throughout the 60s, the Harlem-born vocalist rose to international prominence as one-third of The Ronettes, alongside her sister Estelle and cousin Nedra. And, together, the trio dominated the decade’s rock landscape. In 1963, the group’s infectious pop single “Be My Baby” rose to the top of the Billboard charts, inspiring Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, in the process. By 1966, The Ronettes were opening for The Beatles. (Two years prior, The Ronettes had hired The Rolling Stones as their opening act). To say that Ronnie was the frontwoman of the 60s would be an understatement, to say the least.
Like The Ronettes’ R&B-pop sound, Ronnie’s (and her bandmates’) style epitomized the glam-garçonne look of the era. Think boxy pantsuits, glitzy wiggle dresses, bouffants and a winged cat-eye. Today, Ronnie and The Ronettes’ fashion choices reverberate through pop culture. Alongside The Supremes, they also set the standard for girl group dressing. At the turn-of-the-millennium, we saw reflections of the group’s coordinated ensembles in the wardrobes of TLC and Destiny’s Child. In the aughts, we gleaned Ronnie’s iconic beehive ‘do (and tough-yet-tender vocals) in the likes of Amy Winehouse. Here, in celebration of what would have been Ronnie’s 79th birthday, we look back on the late R&B legend’s most iconic outfits of all time.
Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
With The Ronettes, 1963
Ronnie grew up in Manhattan’s Washington Heights where she spent her childhood singing with her sister Estelle and cousin Nedra at family gatherings. By the late 50s, the trio founded the group that would become The Ronettes, performing at local bar mitzvahs and sock hops before securing a residency at New York’s Peppermint Lounge (the storied birthplace of the Twist) and signing with Philles Records. Here, the year of signing their star-making record deal, the group are photographed in their signature flanked pose wearing a trifecta of cropped, doubled-breasted pantsuits, typical of the era’s Mod style.
Photo by Gilles Petard/Redferns
With The Ronettes, 1964
Along with their Mod wardrobe, The Ronettes were known for their signature beauty look: thick, black cat eyeliner. Since the group’s heyday, the look has become a signifier of rock-and-roll cachet and, over the years, has been adopted by the likes of icons Françoise Hardy, Alexa Chung and Amy Winehouse.
Happy Monday! The new week is here and with it comes the chance to delve deep into some fresh culture and fashion. Here’s your latest look at the i-D Guide.
Wear… Kenzo’s Urban Uniforms for AW22
Under the creative helm of Nigo, Kenzo is giving us classy Urban Uniforms for AW22. Their latest drop, in stores and online now, is like Harajuku street style meets the wears of 1960s French students at the forefront of revolution. Think cable-knit everything, gorgeous denim utilitarian wear, and flower power to the fucking max. Buy it all here.
Snag… Byredo’s new flavoured lip balms
Here’s the dilemma: good lip balms are effective, but their formula rarely puts flavour at the fore. Flavoured lip balms taste good, but they’re usually stuffed with inexplicable nasties to make them so. So thank god Byredo have managed to make a killer crossover product: a flavoured lip balm that does the job and tastes good, all while being free of endocrine disruptors and pesticides. They come in three flavours — Thé à la Menthe d’Agadir, Bergamotte de Bahia and Camomille d’Anjou — and are available to buy now, either directly from Byredo.com or in store, or on the Selfridges website.
At Water by Seth Fluker
Harbouring a new collection of images by photographer Seth Fluker, At Water is a limited edition zine that captures water in its varying moods and states. Shot across several continents, from Seth’s home country of Canada to Japan, it highlights water’s volatile behaviour. It’s available now from its publisher Hassla Books in a limited run of 300. Buy it here.
Watch… Girl Picture
The winner of the World Cinema Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the Finnish movie Girl Picture is a spin on the plights of coming-of-age as a teenage girl. Two best friends, Mimmi and Rönkkö are inseparable, working together at a smoothie stand after school. They share their own woes of what it’s like to explore love and sex during adolescence — but their two paths are totally unique. While Mimmi is besotted by a girl she knows, Rönkkö is keen to explore the wilder side of life. Girl Picture hits limited US theatres on 12 August, and will be released in the UK later this year.
Read… None of the Above by Travis Alabanza
It’s been a trailblazing few years for trans voices in literature (Detransition Baby, Nevada’s resurrection), but the immense power of British non-fiction focusing on trans existence is particularly…
Of course, no matter what side of the pond you’re on, you were already going to spend your weekend perusing the installations and rails at Dover Street Market. But if, for some godforsaken reason you weren’t, make sure you change your plans instantly! From AW22 collections hitting the London space to rare 90s and 00s vintage pieces taking over the NYC store — DSM is the place to be! In more fashion news, Valentino have announced their new DiVas, Priya Ahluwalia directed a film, LUAR have a secret pop up shop coming, the LOEWE Craft Prize 2023 applications are open and Katya Zelentsova has launched her AW22 line. It’s been a busy week! Here’s what’s in fashion.
Image courtesy of Dover Street Market
Shop the new collections at DSM London….
Yes, we know that the height of summer isn’t really when you want to turn your thoughts to the cooler climes on the horizon, but if there’s one good reason to get excited about the fact that autumn’s just around the corner, it’s this: Dover Street Market’s seasonal renewal! Yes, though it feels like just yesterday that we watched the AW22 shows parade down the runways, they’re finally hitting London’s chicest shop floor. Of course, you’ll find full drops of the latest collections from brands within the Comme family, but that’s not all! You’ll find exclusives from the likes of Gucci and Palace, and new labels like young British label Rabbit. If there’s one thing in particular that we’d pick out as a total must-cop from the new haul of goodies arriving at the Haymarket style emporium, it’s without doubt this exclusive version of Kiko Kostadinov’s instantly iconic Trivia bag. Rendered in glossy, glittery fuchsia leather, it’s the perfect bag for the seasonal transition, bringing poppy flair to Laura and Deanna Fanning’s deliciously warped baguette. Run down to get yours before they’re gone! MS
…and cop a piece of fashion history at DSM New York!
While they’re bringing the new over at the London branch of Dover Street Market, this weekend at the New York outpost, it’s all about celebrating the old. In a truly one-of-a-kind event, the Midtown concept store will host a sale of pieces collected over the past two decades by one of fashion’s most esteemed archivists: David Casavant. The owner of some of the most coveted menswear pieces in recent fashion history — think early Raf Simons bombers, late 00s Prada full looks — he’s earned a reputation as the man…