Music Adele’s Major Milestone You know what I like about Adele? After she hosted Saturday Night Live back in October, when so many people were speculating she’d be announcing a new album…and she didn’t (she just wanted to experience it for fun)… she signed off on Instagram – “peace out til next By Lainey • Jan 25, 2021 03:03 pm
Style Winter is Beyoncé I felt something shift last night, and it wasn’t just my period which, if I may, is something truly spectacular right now. Has anyone written a think-piece yet on pandemic periods? Because mine during all these months of lockdown has been volcanic. Is there a correlation? More on By Lainey • Jan 25, 2021 01:29 pm
Equality Issues Angelina Goes Back to Target Another week, another trip to Target – last week Angelina was shopping at Target with Zahara, this week she’s back at the store but with Knox. Which I would imagine is not unusual if you’re a parent, having to pick up supplies for either school or play or whatever, By Lainey • Jan 25, 2021 12:46 pm
Top Reads Lori and MBJ: An Instagram Love Story Is this your favourite rom-com of 2021? It’s definitely mine – and it’s playing out on Instagram. Rom-coms, like most films, have three acts. We are currently still in the first act of Michael B Jordan Loves Lori Harvey: An Instagram Love Story. Will we see the By Lainey • Jan 25, 2021 10:26 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 25, 2021 Dear Gossips, If not for the pandemic, Oscar nominations would be announced around now. Everything has been pushed back, as we know, but the races are starting to shape up. The big question is how different voting will be now that award season campaigning isn’t happening the way we’ By Lainey • Jan 25, 2021 09:06 am
What Else What Else? Casey Affleck was trending the other day when the cardboard cutout of Ana de Armas was photographed being thrown out by… someone…outside Ben Affleck’s house. I think it was pretty obvious at the time that it wasn’t Casey? But, you know, Twitter sometimes takes off with something By Lainey • Jan 22, 2021 04:00 pm
Equality Issues Let’s Boogie Many people the last few days have been talking about the trauma they’ve been carrying for the last four years and recognising it in the relief of Joe Biden’s inauguration. That relief may be temporary, because of course there is so much work to be done, so many By Lainey • Jan 22, 2021 11:27 am
Outfit of the Week Intro for January 22, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Outfit of the Week and, so far, the Outfit of the Year, was worn on Inauguration Day this week, when Joe Biden became President of the United States and Kamala Harris was officially sworn in as Vice President. This outfit, and obviously the person wearing it, caused By Lainey • Jan 22, 2021 09:04 am
What Else What Else? Beautiful Maluma is ELLE’s first solo male cover subject but I really don’t love the shot they chose. Yes, he looks cool and of course I appreciate that he’s reaching into the camera for me and you, reaching out to all of us, but I don’t By Lainey • Jan 21, 2021 04:31 pm
Top Reads BTS x LV When I saw that Louis Vuitton was trending this morning and, at the time that I checked, there were over 100K tweets, I knew it couldn’t have been just because of the new collection. I suspected that either the company had gotten in some offensive f-cksh-t or… By Lainey • Jan 21, 2021 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Makes Things Go Boom? When I hear the name “Jake” these days, I think of Jake Tapper, and not Jake Gyllenhaal because, for months, CNN has been the most-watched network in my home. My husband, Jacek, calls Jake Tapper his “news hero”. Mostly because he loves Jake’s varied expressions of disgust whenever By Lainey • Jan 21, 2021 01:45 pm
Style Celebrities on Inauguration Day I’ve told this story a few times so I hope you don’t mind me repeating it but today I think it’s worth coming back to. Remember Aretha Franklin’s hat at President Obama’s inauguration? And how a lot of people laughed at it? I loved it By Lainey • Jan 21, 2021 12:40 pm
Chrissy Teigen Intro for January 21, 2021 Dear Gossips, In one of Sarah’s upcoming posts (coming later this morning) about how she experienced the inauguration of President Joe Biden yesterday, she writes about the kind of “normalcy” that might return to the White House now that Trump is out. The normalcy happened almost immediately as the By Lainey • Jan 21, 2021 09:02 am
What Else What Else? We will talk about Lady Gaga at the inauguration tomorrow. But before the inauguration, she arrived in DC in white, a caped coat, and a lot of people are calling it a Star Wars-inspired look. I didn’t see it at first but the photoshopping really helps nail the By Lainey • Jan 20, 2021 04:18 pm
Style History Has Its Eyes on Amanda Gorman I am not American. But that doesn’t mean that what we saw today in Washington, DC wasn’t significant to me. What happens in America has an impact on the entire world. And so, to you Americans out there reading this, please know that there were many of us By Lainey • Jan 20, 2021 02:54 pm
Royals British Royals: Staffing Issues? A couple of interesting developments about the British royal family this week. You know how celebrities have been known to dump announcements late on Friday afternoons in the hopes of burying the story on the weekend so as not to be as big a headline? For the last few days, By Lainey • Jan 20, 2021 12:05 pm