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
Met Gala 2019 Saoirse Ronan & Rachel Brosnahan: Subtle Camp Blondes “Theme! Theme theme THEME!” That’s the refrain on Twitter, and honestly it’s often the refrain on our text threads – but at the same time, part of pulling off what is essentially a costume is knowing what works on you. Saoirse Ronan has consistently killed in her wardrobe choices By Duana • May 07, 2019 03:59 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Best Of All Worlds Hi Duana! I had written to you months ago about baby #3 due in May (not knowing what the baby’s gender would be) and stressing about what to name the babe if it was a boy. We loved the name Isaiah but it is way to similar to our By Duana • May 06, 2019 04:00 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Walk The Line Hi, We are expecting our first child any day now and we don’t know the baby’s gender. We have a boy name picked out already. My husband seems to like very feminine names [for girls] that end in “a” (his favorite is Shoshana), and I tend to like By Duana • May 03, 2019 04:16 pm
TV Updates Veronica Mars trailer debuts on Hulu If there was any doubt about who the Hulu Veronica Mars reboot was supposed to be for, it’s resolved in the first 10 seconds of the trailer. “When your best friend is murdered before your 17th birthday...” followed immediately by a tiny blonde taking down an attacker with a By Duana • May 01, 2019 03:31 pm
Theatre Nerd Tony Nominations 2019 .@BrandonVDixon just called "Bernhardt-Hamlet" "bernhardt #HAMILTON" at the Tony Nominations!! #TonyNominations @Lin_Manuel— Laura Heywood (@BroadwayGirlNYC) April 30, 2019 This was the first thing I saw about the Tony Awards, which made me laugh – apparently old habits die hard for Brandon Victor Dixon... And apparently for By Duana • Apr 30, 2019 11:58 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can My Son Have A Girls’ Name? Dear Duana, Help! We're expecting our second boy in a week [Duana: less than that now, since I got this letter a few days ago] and we've finally found a name that we like. The problem is that it is much more common as a girl& By Duana • Apr 29, 2019 04:31 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: One Name Fits None? Plus Unisex Updates! Hi Duana! I am due to have our 2nd child in late April, and I really think I need your help! Our daughter is called Alexandra. She’s 3 and I love her name, and a lot of the reason we chose it was the flexibility it affords. On its By Duana • Apr 26, 2019 04:55 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Name Habits of Secret Book Nerds Hi Duana! We're getting close to the due date and I can no longer tell if something I thought was too gimmicky actually isn't, or if it's just the pressure of not having a name that's making me fuzzy. I need some By Duana • Apr 24, 2019 04:31 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work MASTER CLASS: Taylor Jenkins Reid By now you’ve heard about Daisy Jones & The Six, the sixth book from author Taylor Jenkins Reid, either because of its six weeks and counting on the NYT bestseller list, or because it’s currently being adapted into an Amazon limited series by Reese Witherspoon, or because yes, By Duana • Apr 24, 2019 01:16 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work LIVE: Beyoncé Homecoming Edition If you’re on the internet at all today, #BeyoncéHomecoming is all there is, but just in case you’re somehow avoiding all of it except this post, SPOILERS abound below: Lainey and I are joined by very special guest/official provider of waterworks Kathleen for what might be our By Duana • Apr 17, 2019 03:09 pm
