Bad Style “She just wants to look pretty” Tonight is the Met Gala. It’s worth repeating, as we do every year, that the Met Gala is not an ordinary red carpet. The basics never seem to understand this which is why they think Blake Lively is Best Dressed year after year even though, year after year, she By Lainey • May 06, 2019 11:38 am
Baby and Bump Obsession A male heir for House Sussex I wrote about the verb tense in my previous post about Meghan Markle going into labour. That didn’t take long – it’s been confirmed that House Sussex has produced a male heir. Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex was safely delivered of a son at 0526hrs. The baby By Lainey • May 06, 2019 10:32 am
Equality Issues The Queer History of Camp After months of waiting, the Met Gala is finally here, and I am dying to see this year’s outfits. The theme is based on Susan Sontag’s seminal 1964 essay, “Notes on Camp”, in which she tries to explain and describe the sensibility known as Camp. Trying to define By Prem • May 06, 2019 10:11 am
Baby and Bump Obsession House Sussex: A Met Gala baby Fifteen minutes after I posted the open this morning, it was confirmed that Meghan Markle is (was?) in labour: Confirmed. Meghan is in labour. This from Buckingham Palace pic.twitter.com/5Z70fyhY5k— Chris Ship (@chrisshipitv) May 6, 2019 So it’s not a Star Wars baby. And it’s not By Lainey • May 06, 2019 09:30 am
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones: Imagine better for the women SPOILERS ALWAYS SPOILER ALERT LAST CHANCE TO GO BEFORE SPOILERS THE SPOILERS ARE COMING Here is my three-prong approach to this episode. 1) Bad Pet Ownership The animals of Westeros deserve better! Poor Ghost shows up at the mass funeral and has half his ear bitten off and NO ONE By Sarah • May 06, 2019 08:54 am
Game of Thrones Intro for May 6, 2019 Dear Gossips, As of post time, we are still awaiting the birth of Baby Sussex. Not yet born and already this royal child is a celebrity with celebrity tendencies: celebrities never show up on time. Celebrities exist to make us wait. They are, also, skilled in the art of cockblocking. By Lainey • May 06, 2019 08:27 am
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
What Else What Else? I can’t wait until Sunday. Because …it’s a new world in Westeros. In so many ways. Not only because the age of Cersei is clearly longer than the night but because well, it is indeed a new day now that, you know, I don’t have to look By Lainey • May 03, 2019 03:59 pm
Trixie Mattel’s New Cosmetics Line and Beyond Move over Rihanna and Fenty Beauty, legend-star-icon Tracy Martel announced the launch of a new cosmetics line this week which will exclusively debut at LA Drag Con starting May 24. (I’m sorry Rihanna, I was just joking. You could never be pushed aside, even by a skinny legend like By Prem • May 03, 2019 03:39 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Keira Knightley Usually, when I see leopard print, my associations are Jackie and Joan Collins and body-con. That is, it’s a coat, worn dramatically, or something tight. Relax – I know that that’s not the only time leopard print comes up (there are shoes and bags etc), I’m just saying By Lainey • May 03, 2019 02:38 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 3, 2019 Paper Magazine doesn’t need to wait long – we will see Harry Styles on Monday at the MET Gala. He will be a focal point and, according to Anna Wintour, he’ll be in Gucci. The way she compares him to Mick Jagger, she almost seems giddy. Or as close By Maria • May 03, 2019 02:05 pm
TV Updates Are you watching Barry yet? There is too much TV, it’s a fact. It’s impossible to keep up with everything, so it is very possible you have missed Bill Hader’s HBO series, Barry. Are you watching it? No? Not yet? WELL YOU SHOULD. There isn’t much TV I would make people By Sarah • May 03, 2019 01:12 pm
Faux Gossip Brad, Margot, and Leo’s Cannes dreams Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie were seen in LA yesterday on a photo shoot, presumably to promote Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Everyone was expecting Quentin Tarantino’s latest film to screen at Cannes – they love him there – but when the initial lineup was released a few weeks ago, By Lainey • May 03, 2019 11:45 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Blake & Ryan’s world premiere Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds attended the world premiere of Pokemon: Detective Pikachu in New York last night and it was also the world premiere of their third pregnancy. Blake wore yellow, on theme, and of course news that they’re expecting another child is making headlines around the world, By Lainey • May 03, 2019 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron in Long Shot The movie that took Seth Rogen from ensemble player in Judd Apatow projects to leading man (in Judd Apatow projects) is Knocked Up. Knocked Up is also a movie that has not aged particularly well, in the way it portrays ambitious, career-oriented women. Long Shot, a romantic comedy produced by By Sarah • May 03, 2019 10:36 am
Equality Issues Intro for May 3, 2019 Dear Gossips, This is my favourite photo of the week: it’s Lucy Liu with her ma, Cecilia. It was taken on Wednesday, a big day. Because that was the day Lucy became just the second Asian-American woman to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. During her By Lainey • May 03, 2019 10:02 am
