Met Gala 2022 Great gowns… beautiful gowns: the Peltz-Beckhams and Mindy Kaling My title is a tribute to the glamorous queen Aretha Franklin, a woman who showed up and showed out at events. What would she do with these girls…. First up is young love and little effort from the Peltz-Beckhams. Brooklyn is in a white suit with sneakers and Nicola’s By Maria • May 03, 2022 10:05 am
Met Gala 2022 Yes, Jared, we see you Ugh, fine, yes, Jared Leto, we see you at the Met Gala. Leto turned up with Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele, and they went for match-matchy patterned tuxes and long hair. Honestly, this might have worked better for the camp year than that fake head Leto dragged around? I actually By Sarah • May 03, 2022 09:49 am
Met Gala 2022 SJP: Always Researched As we all know by now when it comes to Sarah Jessica Parker and the Met Gala, it’s that she does the research. She just said last week that she spends months working on her look and that it should be “labour-intensive and challenging”. SJP will always do the By Lainey • May 03, 2022 09:25 am
Met Gala 2022 Amy Schumer and Christine Baranski in black For gilded glamour, I studied up as much as I could and the most helpful resource for me was Cora Harrington, the writer behind The Lingerie Addict and author of In Intimate Detail: How to Choose, Wear and Love Lingerie. She has a deep understanding of historical fashion and is By Maria • May 03, 2022 09:01 am
Met Gala 2022 Cardi, Nicki, Meg: Rap Trinity Takes The Met Gala Female rappers have been some of the most influential figures in fashion long before Marc Jacobs, Donatella Versace and Giorgio Armani were clamouring to dress Lil Kim in the early 2000s. So it’s nice to see invitations to this year’s Met Gala were extended to Cardi B, Nicki By Cody • May 03, 2022 08:41 am
Met Gala 2022 Intro for May 3, 2022 Dear Gossips, As far as themes go, this year’s Met Gala wasn’t the highest degree of difficulty. The Costume Institute’s exhibit is In America: An Anthology of Fashion so, technically, any American designer puts you “on theme”. According to the invitation, the dress code was “gilded glamour, By Lainey • May 03, 2022 08:18 am
What Else What Else? I think I disagree with the Fug Girls here, with love of course and always – because the “unravelling” of Zoe Saldana’s dress is what makes it for me. And especially that it’s only on one side. Like this kind of tear/rip design doesn’t work for me By Lainey • May 02, 2022 04:03 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 2, 2022 Lizzo is getting ready for her tour and took a quick minute to celebrate her birthday, with good wishes from Beyoncé. The tweet made me laugh because as we know, Team Ivy Park gets all of the photos. How? Where? Are they contacting people’s families directly? Are they looking By Maria • May 02, 2022 03:09 pm
Devery Jacobs An Indigenous queens crossover Echo, the Hawkeye spin-off focused on Alaqua Cox’s anti-hero character Maya Lopez, is currently filming, and it was confirmed on Friday that Reservation Dogs star Devery Jacobs is joining the cast. Cox first alluded to Jacobs via an Instagram story in which she showed off flowers Jacobs sent for By Sarah • May 02, 2022 02:20 pm
Style Vanessa Hudgens: Anna-approved It is Met Gala tradition for the co-chairs of the Met Gala and a select few other VIPs to attend a small, private dinner hosted by Anna Wintour ahead of Monday night’s big spectacle. Vanessa Hudgens was there last night because she and LaLa Anthony are hosting Vogue’s By Lainey • May 02, 2022 01:19 pm
Style Everyone in New York If you’ve been online at all today, if you’ve opened up Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok, there’s no escaping it – it’s Met Gala Monday. People have been talking about it for days, we’ve been talking about it for days, and the talking is about to escalate By Lainey • May 02, 2022 12:45 pm
Quiveration Beautiful Bradley Cooper Bradley Cooper has been in New York for months on pre-production for this Leonardo Bernstein biopic. They’re supposed to start shooting really soon and just last week announced that Maya Hawke has joined the cast alongside Bradley and Carey Mulligan. Before that though, there’s time to make some By Lainey • May 02, 2022 11:55 am
Top Reads Netflix cancelled Meghan Markle (and everyone else) Following Netflix’s bad earnings call and stock freefall, the company is in full slash-and-burn mode, axing programming left and right and no one is safe, not even the Duchess of Sussex. Archewell Productions has a development deal with Netflix, through which Meghan Markle was developing an animated series aimed By Sarah • May 02, 2022 11:15 am
Top Reads Angelina in Ukraine Back in March, around the time of International Women’s Day, Angelina Jolie was in Yemen as part of her work with the UNHCR for three days meeting with “both internally displaced Yemenis as well as refugees in the north and south of the country”. Six weeks later and another By Lainey • May 02, 2022 10:47 am
Trevor Noah Trevor Noah does the job The White House Correspondents Dinner took place on Saturday after an almost three year hiatus. The point of the dinner is to celebrate American journalists, and watch the president and the host make speeches (or roasts). For a while there it was almost a rite of passage for late night By Melayna • May 02, 2022 09:54 am
TV Updates Intro for May 2, 2022 Dear Gossips, Last Monday I posted in this space about Heartstopper, the new queer teen rom-com on Netflix. I’d just started watching, as the series was just starting to pick up momentum, and even though at the time I was only two and a half episodes in, I was By Lainey • May 02, 2022 09:04 am
