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
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
