Style Cynthia and Ariana: High fashion and all the feels It feels like the return of a friend. One of the biggest pop culture stories of 2024 was the Wicked press tour last fall and through the winter, when Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande took over the timeline in green and pink and, together, created some of the most insane By Lainey • Nov 10, 2025 10:48 am
Style Wicked Paris The Paris premiere of Wicked: For Good happened today—tonight, whatever—and, predictably, Ariana Grande turned up in black and pink. Also on hand in Paris were reigning Sexiest Man Alive, Jonathan Bailey, and Jeff Goldblum. So far, I have not had to explain to anyone why Jonathan Bailey is By Sarah • Nov 07, 2025 04:25 pm
TV Updates More women of the year As Lainey said earlier this week, it’s “of the year” time, when media outlets name their best/favorite/most notable people “of the year”. We’ve had GQ’s Men of the Year and Glamour’s Women of the Year, and now it’s Harper’s Bazaar’s Women By Sarah • Nov 07, 2025 10:37 am
Style The (Top Gun and Mission Impossible) Running Man Tom Cruise did not attend the London premiere of The Running Man last night but it felt like he was there because I’m having a harder and harder time distinguishing him from Glen Powell right now. If we’re talking about the “running man”, there is no other movie By Lainey • Nov 06, 2025 01:20 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Rocky after Rihanna Rihanna and A$AP Rocky walked their first carpet last night since the birth of their third child Rocki Irish. They showed up in New York at the CFDA Awards where Rocky was honoured with the Style Icon award, an award Rihanna previously received in 2014. I know you know By Lainey • Nov 04, 2025 01:18 pm
Shoes Taylor & Gigi: Great coats, bad boots, and a PPV wedding? Gigi Hadid and Taylor Swift had dinner last night, an autumnal tradition. Fall wouldn’t be fall if Gigi and Taylor weren’t getting papped in seasonal fashion in New York City outside a trendy restaurant. Taylor looks really pretty here with her hair blown out and this is a By Lainey • Nov 04, 2025 12:15 pm
Style Intro for November 4, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Council of Fashion Designers of America awards (CFDAs) happened last night which means looks were served. The guest list included style regulars and first-timers, like EJAE, who is having the biggest year of her career with the success of Kpop Demon Hunters. And of course she has By Lainey • Nov 04, 2025 09:08 am
Style Is Robert Pattinson sexy? PEOPLE Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive 2025 will be announced on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon tonight. I’ve been trying to predict the Sexiest Man Alive since the very early days of this site and my annual prediction post was just posted this morning at The Squawk. There By Lainey • Nov 03, 2025 12:39 pm
Style The rising stars of Time100 Next Another of those year-end fetes is the Time100 Next Gala, which celebrates rising stars in culture, media, leadership, and activism. This year’s list includes Jonathan Bailey, Tramell Tillman, Teyana Taylor, Monica Barbaro—good of you to show AFTER her Oscar nomination, some of us were here BEFORE—Damson Idris, By Sarah • Oct 31, 2025 10:55 am
Style Ingenues grown up The Variety Power of Women event happened last night, honouring Jamie Lee Curtis, Wanda Sykes, Aly Raisman, Nicole Scherzinger, Kate Hudson, and Sydney Sweeney. What stood out to me was the group shot – and specifically the way they’ve been positioned. Sydney in the middle, and Kate on one end. By Lainey • Oct 30, 2025 03:22 pm
Style Anne Hathaway 2003 Valentino Garavani and his longtime partner Giancarlo Giammetti were celebrated for their contribution to fashion last night at the WWD Honors event in New York. Valentino is now 93 years old and does not step out in public anymore so Giancarlo was there with Anne Hathaway, a longtime friend of By Lainey • Oct 29, 2025 11:45 am
Style Jennifer Lawrence’s best profile Jennifer Lawrence is back in the Oscar mix this year after the world premiere of Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love in Cannes back in May, where she was praised for her performance as a new mother navigating rage and desire and boredom and Robert Pattinson. That was early in By Lainey • Oct 28, 2025 01:27 pm
Style Ariana Grande: Pink is back There’s been an ongoing conversation over at our Substack, The Squawk, about how quiet Wicked: For Good has been, seemingly. At least in comparison to the overload of Wickeding last year. I wrote about this in our latest mailbag newsletter – that it’s been smart of the studio to By Lainey • Oct 28, 2025 11:14 am
Maple Leaf Maitreyi gets a degree Shout out to our beloved Toronto girly Maitreyi Ramakrishnan who is having a time! And for you sticklers out there – yes, she’s from Mississauga… which is the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). Maitreyi posted last week that she’d graduated from York University, majoring in Human Rights and Equity Studies. By Lainey • Oct 27, 2025 04:07 pm
Gorgessity Satine and her underwhelming double It was no surprise that Nicole Kidman, Ayo Edebiri, and Greta Lee walked the runway at Vogue World Hollywood last night at Paramount Studios. All three cover the current issue of American Vogue released in anticipation of the event. And all three are freshly confirmed major fashion house ambassadors – Nicole By Lainey • Oct 27, 2025 01:38 pm
Style A Saja Boy at the Fashion Show During Paris Fashion Week this past summer, at the Celine show in July, Anna Wintour made a point of asking V (aka Kim Taehyung, aka Tae), within earshot of everyone, to attend Vogue World Hollywood, knowing the impact of an appearance by any member of BTS on any event they By Lainey • Oct 27, 2025 10:42 am