Emmy Awards 2025 Duana’s Best Dressed: Tramell Tillman - And The Outies This man looks absolutely incredible – not that there was every any doubt. As far as I’m concerned, this look is straight from the archives of Choreography and Merriment, and the speech that went with it is no less perfect – in rhythm, in cadence, and in its arresting affect: “Severance& By Duana • Sep 15, 2025 01:25 pm
Style Black Dress Brigade, (plus a couple of rogue jewels) Did they know something? The Black dress babies, did they know? Because with the exception of Anna Sawai, whose perfect Armani Privé sparkling column was perfect for her presenting job – sorry, but there are no other adjectives, particularly when that woman’s face is involved: Anna Sawai #Emmys — Pop Noire By Duana • Sep 15, 2025 11:31 am
Emmy Awards 2025 Thank You For Being A Fearless, Forthright Friend There were, as always, a lot of hopes that went unfulfilled at last night’s Emmys – like when Elizabeth Banks noted the five female directors nominated only to have the sole man win. But the moments of solidarity and friendship, on and offscreen, felt like they were larger than the By Duana • Sep 15, 2025 09:32 am
Emmy Awards 2025 The Studio Is Accurate, Therefore Unwatchable Unlike Adolescence, I think most people have watched The Studio – if it sounds like the kind of show that’s your thing, it’s hard to have avoided it – and why would you? Stellar cast, madcap-caper style storytelling, a big love for cinema, and affection for cinephiles – of course it By Duana • Sep 15, 2025 08:17 am
Emmy Awards 2025 Sweeping ‘Adolescence’ Is Emmy Essential By far the number one question I saw last night – both on our live chat and Around, generally, was “...Do I have to watch Adolescence now?” If you’re reading this, you know the answer. Yes, you do. You’re not going to like it, necessarily, or rather, you won’ By Duana • Sep 15, 2025 07:23 am
TV Updates SMG’s telltale accessory on the Buffy set Something I’ve noticed as pieces of news about the Buffy reboot trickle out is the tiptoeing. By tiptoeing, I mean that every single fan of this show, and half the people who didn’t watch it originally but have been browbeaten into it by friends and family in the By Duana • Aug 13, 2025 12:43 pm
TV Updates Forever in 2025 is Still Timeless In all the press about new Netflix series Forever, the three converging timelines might be the least discussed element. The quintessential teen romance of 2025 is inspired by the Judy Blume novel published a literal fifty years ago – but also set in 2018, a time just far enough away from By Duana • May 12, 2025 02:28 pm
Met Gala 2025 Teyana Taylor and Guest Star Ego Nwodim: Met Gala 2025 Best Dressed (Duana) I have only one negative thing to say about Teyana Taylor’s ensemble last night, which is that we were very rarely able to see it head on: Most of the time, we saw her co-hosting the blue carpet, so we got the chains on the pants (which originally I By Duana • May 06, 2025 02:14 pm
Met Gala 2025 Oxblood, Sweat, and Relatively Few Tears We’re going to do proper Best Dressed anointments later in the day, but for my money, the people in this piece are the ones who really collectively killed it. I didn’t start out thinking the oxblood would be the key colour of the night, and I have to By Duana • May 06, 2025 01:22 pm
Met Gala 2025 Best (and a Worst) Of Both in Black & White Yes, it’s a very classic, stylish look. No, it is not the most original – as we can see by the fact that, first of all, there are myriad variations on this theme seen here, and second, that there are other looks we highlighted elsewhere that could, in theory, have By Duana • May 06, 2025 12:26 pm
Style The Met Gala’s Well-Suited Women With a Dandyism theme, suits and suiting are on everyone’s mind, and though “dress like the boys” isn’t a huge stretch on the theme, many of the women in this category might never get to wear pants to an event, depending on their stylist’s inclinations or whatever By Duana • May 06, 2025 08:04 am
Style Oscar Best Dressed: Bowen Yang (Duana) It wasn’t even hard. Bowen Yang was my Best Dressed before the show was halfway done – I wanted to wait to see if anyone was going to surprise me, but I knew it wasn’t even going to be close – because his look, which is custom Etro, fulfills what By Duana • Mar 03, 2025 01:44 pm
Oscars 2025 Chic, Smooth, and Soft – Velvet Is the Chill Carpet Choice Velvet trending on the carpet isn’t new, per se – it’s a great fabric that’s both reliable and forgiving. So it makes sense that it’s popular – what’s fun is thinking about the Venn diagram of the women who chose it. Isabella Rosselini is the easiest to By Duana • Mar 03, 2025 12:40 pm
Oscars 2025 Andrew Garfield is Just Playing, Now It’s the middle of the night as I write this, otherwise known as the middle of the workday, which as we all know is the traditional time for some gloating. Or so I thought: I was all set to talk about Andrew Garfield and remind you that while you By Duana • Mar 03, 2025 11:15 am
Top Reads The Most Exhausting Supporting Actor Competition The show’s overall pace was good, especially toward the beginning. And Robert Downey, Jr.’s introduction of the five nominees in the Best Supporting Actor category was incredibly skillful, in a move that nobody else was able to replicate quite as well. True, it necessitated RDJ acting like he By Duana • Mar 03, 2025 10:19 am
Ariana Grande Dear Old Wicked goes to the Big Show Because at this point, the Wicked cast are almost as familiar as your cousins, right? After the most epic and committed press cycle in recent history, we’ve committed every expression and interaction Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande have ever had – not to memory, because they’re too numerous and By Duana • Mar 03, 2025 07:43 am
