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Margaret Qualley’s star has been steadily rising for the last six or so years. She’s reaching the point where I don’t think people really care about nepotism, she’s shown she has the goods. But her mother, Andie McDowell, humorously points out SHE is now benefitting from “reverse nepotism” thanks to her famous daughter. This is the most charming the nepotism debate has ever been in entertainment. Andie McDowell is SO PROUD of Margaret, it’s cute. Also, can we talk about how straight up sexy Andie looks with silver hair?! She’s a silver fox! (Celebitchy)

The Saint Laurent Homme show included a lot of great suiting in the front row, but some very questionable hosiery. (Go Fug Yourself)

Lady Gaga has a new album and a new look. Is she entering her witch phase? The bangs scream “I plant rosemary by my garden gate”. No joke, if Gaga wants to do a post-modern Stevie Nicks thing, I’m into it. (OMG Blog)

Anthony Mackie’s Captain America press tour is a political landmine, and he’s stepping on them already. It was always going to be political for a Black man to take on that mantle, a certain type of person was always going to be a sh-thead about it, just as they were when Sam Wilson became Cap in the comics. But I am a little surprised Mackie doesn’t sound more prepared to talk about what it means to represent America right now, when *waves at the general state of everything* the world is like it is. 

Some people get their backs up about media training, but this is exactly the sort of scenario in which it is massively useful to be prepared to hit your talking points without generating the wrong kind of headlines or having to backtrack/apologize for something you said in an interview, like Mackie is now doing. (Pajiba)

There is a display of imaginary books in New York right now and I want to see it so bad. Reid Byers made physical objects to represent the made-up books that appear in real books, such as Songs of the Jabberwock from Alice in Wonderland. It’s not that he’s inventing books out of whole cloth—though he encourages people to do that, too!—it’s giving life to the fictional works imagined in other fictional works. Byers explains his process and the value of imaginary books, which are like a land beyond the land of stories. This is like the Matrix of books. (Atlas Obscura)