Oscars 2025 Oscar Night White Dresses It was announced last fall that Lupita Nyong’o had signed on to become Chanel’s latest ambassador. We’ve seen in the past that Chanel doesn’t work for all celebrities. For every Kristen Stewart, there’s a Margot Robbie. For every Jennie, there’s a Penelope Cruz. And By Lainey • Mar 03, 2025 11:56 am
Outfit of the Week Outfits of the Week: Ruth and Rosamund Ruth Negga stars in Dan Levy’s new film, Good Grief, premiering on Netflix on January 5. I can’t wait to see it, the trailer looks amazing. And I appreciate the release date because the mood of the movie, the tone of it from the preview, it’s totally By Lainey • Dec 22, 2023 01:53 pm
Style Tonys Fashion Understated is never the theme of the Tonys, especially not when Broadway was celebrating its return after two years of COVID shutdowns. So there were a lot of great looks last night and we’ll showcase some of them here, starting with Cynthia Erivo, my personal favourite. Because I’ve By Lainey • Jun 13, 2022 11:25 am
Theatre Nerd Opening Night with Daniel and Ruth Big night on Broadway last night as Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga headline Macbeth and I’m pretty sure no one has to explain who they’re playing. The show also brought out Danai Gurira (in an amazing yellow and black jacket dress) and Oscar Isaac and his wife Elvira By Lainey • Apr 29, 2022 01:32 pm
Outfit of the Week Outfits of the Week: Selma Blair and Ruth Negga Both outfits of this week happened at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment event on Wednesday. Let’s start with Selma Blair who received the Equity in Entertainment award, presented to her by Michelle Pfeiffer. Have you seen Introducing, Selma Blair? You can stream it on discovery+ via Amazon By Lainey • Dec 10, 2021 02:41 pm
Style Ava, Shamier, and Celebrating Black Cinema In the previous post about Drake, I wrote about him devaluing the Grammys and assigning value elsewhere. That’s what Shamier Anderson and his brother Stephan James are attempting to do with The Black Academy, measuring success on new terms, reframing the benchmark of success in entertainment, and who gets By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga in Passing In 1920s New York, two childhood friends reconnect by chance. Irene (Tessa Thompson) is now married to a doctor and living in Harlem, the epicenter of the Black American renaissance. Clare (Ruth Negga) has moved to Chicago, where she is married to a white man and passing for white herself. By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 12:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tessa, Ruth, and Rebecca: Passing Fashion As Sarah wrote last month, Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut, Passing, could be one of the “outsider interrupters” of this award season. It’s a Netflix title, it will be released on October 29, and it’ll be interesting to see what kind of momentum it can generate in By Lainey • Oct 05, 2021 02:36 pm
Theatre Nerd Daniel Craig after Bond Macbeth is having a moment. Joel Coen’s filmed version of the Scottish play is sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes after premiering at the New York Film Festival, and now there is a new version coming to Broadway starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga as the ill-fated power couple. By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 10:38 am
Award Season Campaigning The Stars at the Academy Museum: A Pre-Oscar Fashion Show The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, aka the Oscar Academy, has been working on the Academy Museum for several years now. The Museum officially opens on September 30 and this weekend the opening gala was a star-studded event, with multiple Oscar winners in attendance, and members of the By Lainey • Sep 27, 2021 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson have entered the race Whew, this awards season is so crowded. On the heels of Nightmare Alley, Belfast, and The Tragedy of Macbeth comes the trailer for Passing, Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. Passing was one of the Sundance stand-outs this year, based on Nella Larsen’s By Sarah • Sep 22, 2021 02:55 pm
TV Updates Ruth Negga takes on Josephine Baker When I think of Josephine Baker, my mind goes to HBO’s The Josephine Baker Story, which taught me just how much of a badass she was. Miss Baker was the Beyoncé of the 1920s. She made the banana skirt iconic. Baker’s story is one that needs to be By Cody • Feb 19, 2021 11:44 am
Style Outfit of the Week: Ruth Negga At this point, it might just be a given that when Ruth Negga is in metallic, the outfit is going to win. She’s also getting closer and closer to becoming one of those rare people removed from Outfit of the Week contention because whenever she shows up, it’s By Lainey • Sep 20, 2019 03:10 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Ruth’s prairie rose The prairie dress! Like I’ve been telling you, the prairie dress is having a moment. I wear a prairie dress probably at least twice a week on The Social and etalk, all year round. It will be a forever style staple for me. And over the last year, so By Lainey • Jun 21, 2018 03:06 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Ruth’s amazing print-clash dress Ruth Negga rarely disappoints. She is not disappointing me here in this clashing print dress in colours and directions that aren’t supposed to work together at all. But of course they do. Why not? It gets boring when everything lines up all the time, non? What I like about By Lainey • Jun 15, 2018 12:46 pm
Met Gala 2018 Ruth coasts, Greta commits: Met Gala black & white Like Lainey, I was very much looking forward to Ruth Negga’s look for the Met Gala. Her red Valentino at the 2017 Oscars is one of the best red carpet looks of the last 5 years. It’s not that Ruth didn’t adhere to the theme this year By Maria • May 08, 2018 03:14 am
