TV Updates Beverly Hills, 90210 trailer birthday! Oh you beautiful dolls! First reaction – pure, giddy tween joy. Second reaction – am I being an uncritical stan? See for yourself: Maybe we should talk about the art of trailers on Show Your Work, because they can be very good or very bad, but when they’re good, they’re By Duana • May 14, 2019 12:03 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Chew On This Dear Duana, A very good friend of mine is due to give birth to baby #3 next week. She massively struggles with names (this is the text she sent me earlier today: "Why is naming a human soooo difficult???"), but she and her partner did an exceptional job By Duana • May 13, 2019 04:20 pm
Equality Issues “You Know Me”: Busy Philipps Speaks Out This is the opening of Tuesday night’s episode of Busy Tonight. The relevant part begins at the 39 second mark: The clip stands on its own, obviously. You don’t need me to explain why it’s so powerful, especially because it’s not new news – Busy wrote about By Duana • May 10, 2019 04:23 pm
TV Updates Tori Spelling… Gets It? If you’re like me, you still can’t quite believe the 90210 reboot – or revival, or mockumentary, or whatever you want to call it – is happening. It seems like the kind of thing that people would drunkenly pitch over drinks and then realize, when they were sober, could never By Duana • May 09, 2019 01:04 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Taylor Jenkins-Reid thinks Daisy Jones Should Drive You Nuts This week it’s part 2 of our conversation with the incredible Taylor Jenkins-Reid! Because Lainey and I were both so obsessed with Daisy Jones & The Six we were shameless about getting her to talk to us about our favourite moments and characters, and didn’t stay away from By Duana • May 08, 2019 03:28 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor! THEY DID IT. THEY DID THAT. They surprised everyone! NOBODY had Archie on their lists. Not a single person in all the opining about Philip and Spencer and Charles had any of these names anywhere on their list… which means I am so proud of these Sussexes I can’t By Duana • May 08, 2019 12:58 pm
Met Gala 2019 Elle Fanning: Met Gala Best (Duana) It was an embarrassment of riches last night. This theme brought out one of the best overall showings in years. But while some of the people we loved are the ones we expected to (looking at you, Celine) part of the reason this look gets my best dressed is that By Duana • May 07, 2019 12:12 pm
Met Gala 2019 Kerry Washington: Met Gala Most Boring (Duana) I loooove Kerry Washington and I frequently love what she wears. Especially in her Scandal period her work wardrobe was so cashmere sleek that she got to play more on carpets – especially those where she was just a presenter or a guest. Relatively low pressure seemed to work well with By Duana • May 07, 2019 11:49 am
Met Gala 2019 Gabrielle Union & Dwyane Wade: Met Headgear Champions How do they do that? How do they make what could easily veer into cheesy couple’s costume territory look so dramatically badass? Look at these two. Just please experience Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade right now… I don’t have enough knowledge of various Catholic orders to have the By Duana • May 07, 2019 11:14 am
Met Gala 2019 Janelle Monae: Met Devotion This is true devotion to the theme. Janelle Monae has always honoured this carpet, in the most literal, personal ways. She is, more than almost anyone else, an artist whose clothing is an extension of her personality, and of the vibe she’s embodying. Right? Like it’s never a By Duana • May 07, 2019 11:04 am
Met Gala 2019 Ciara & Hailee Steinfeld: Met Extreme Confidence I love what Hailee Steinfeld wore to the Met Gala. It’s so very, very clear to me that to really kill it on the red carpet at this event, you need to have a sense of humour – which is ironic because Anna Wintour is the last person anyone thinks By Duana • May 07, 2019 08:56 am
Met Gala 2019 Sophie Turner & Joe Jonas: Met Best 90s The predominant style indicator of the 90s, if you were trying to approximate it in a drawing or sketch, is plaid flannel, plus combat boots. That’s the shorthand, and it should be, I get why it is. But when I saw Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas, 5 days after By Duana • May 07, 2019 08:33 am
Met Gala 2019 Lupita Nyong’o: Met Unfair Advantage In the past couple of years stylists have finally been getting their due, and some, like Law Roach, are approaching pop culture figure status on their own. It’s absolutely time for people to acknowledge the work of stylists and for them to be stars in their own right, kind By Duana • May 07, 2019 08:03 am
Met Gala 2019 Yara Shahidi & Cara Delevingne: Camp Below The Belt I. Freaked. Out. Look, I’ll admit it. I thought the Camp theme was going to be too broad, and that most people weren’t going to want to risk enough to really come to play, or that the interpretations would be so vague they wouldn’t actually evoke that. By Duana • May 07, 2019 07:20 am
Met Gala 2019 Cole Sprouse & Lili Reinhart: Met Camp Couple I didn’t stutter on that title. Obviously there are other couples tonight who killed it style-wise – more than usual, actually – and we’ll get to all of them. But the reason that Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart seem like the establishment here even though they’re early in their By Duana • May 07, 2019 06:19 am
Met Gala 2019 Gal Gadot & Bella Hadid: Met Gala Personal Bests In the category of ‘honest confessions nobody will be shocked by’, I’ve never cared much about Bella Hadid. I mean I don’t dislike her in any way, but I’ve known her because of who her sister is or her boyfriend was and/or is, but never really By Duana • May 07, 2019 04:26 am
