Style Power and Style 2025 This is probably my favourite issue that The Hollywood Reporter does every year – and it always happens right after the Oscars: The Power Stylists List and this year THR has named Jason Bolden the Stylist of the Year, well deserved! I was just talking last week about Jason’s output By Lainey • Mar 07, 2025 11:01 am
TV Updates A Meghan Sussex Love Letter (to Meghan Sussex) I have finally worked through With Love, Meghan, an extended infomercial for her new brand that is about her loving and learning and learning and loving. She makes honey puns and says things like “progress over perfection” and marvels at nature in lush Montecito. The new Netflix series opens with By Maria • Mar 06, 2025 02:12 pm
Style The Rise of Fashion Doechii What a year it’s been for Doechii. Maybe not even a year. I mean, for her, it’s been many years, of course, making music, hustling, but this is a tough business and oftentimes even the most talented don’t break the way they hope to. In Doechii’s By Lainey • Mar 06, 2025 12:39 pm
Photo Assumption The OTHER Bennifer 2.0?! It’s been almost a year since rumours first started that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were breaking up. As that became more and more of a reality, Ben was more and more seen with Jennifer Garner which resulted in speculation that, perhaps, he would bounce from one Jen to By Lainey • Mar 05, 2025 10:35 am
Hook Ups Jessica Alba and Alex Edelman?! What’s with the Oscars this year producing all these new couples? Or possible new couples? This is the third couples post of the day – and involves two people no one would have predicted: Jessica Alba and Alex Edelman. But first a note on Alex because I interviewed him last By Lainey • Mar 04, 2025 01:02 pm
Quiveration Teyana & Aaron: An Oscars Hard Launch The Oscars were horny this year! The previous post was about whether or not Ralph Fiennes and Chelsea Handler are horny for each other. And this post is about Teyana Taylor and Aaron Pierre being legit horny for each other and making the rest of us horny for them, and By Lainey • Mar 04, 2025 12:17 pm
Top Reads The Most Exhausting Supporting Actor Competition The show’s overall pace was good, especially toward the beginning. And Robert Downey, Jr.’s introduction of the five nominees in the Best Supporting Actor category was incredibly skillful, in a move that nobody else was able to replicate quite as well. True, it necessitated RDJ acting like he By Duana • Mar 03, 2025 10:19 am
Top Reads Adrien Brody: A Case for Speechwriters If there was another bad speech at the Oscars, I don’t remember it, because Adrien Brody decided to take so much time near the end of a show that was already running long – he erased all recollection of anyone else who was annoying up on that stage with a By Lainey • Mar 03, 2025 08:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anne is Verity Let’s talk about a Colleen Hoover book-to-film adaptation. Not THAT one, for a change, but the next project that is now in production: Verity. As you probably know, Colleen Hoover is probably COVID’s most successful author. She was self-publishing before 2020 and her books were modestly successful, she’ By Lainey • Feb 28, 2025 10:17 am
Award Season Campaigning The Nominees Dinner The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – aka the Oscar Academy – typically hosts an Oscar Nominees Luncheon every year to celebrate everyone a few weeks before the big night. This is where they also remind potential winners about keeping their speeches tight and right and gently ask them not By Lainey • Feb 26, 2025 12:30 pm
TV Updates The Oscars: Five Updates for the Five Day Countdown The Oscars are happening on Sunday, finally. With five days to go, updates are happening one on top of another. The biggest one being that Karla Sofía Gascón will be there, with the support of Netflix. If for whatever reason you need a refresher about the Karla chaos, please go By Lainey • Feb 25, 2025 12:13 pm
Hook Ups Red Dresses and Andrew Garfield I don’t usually love a red dress, but there have been a lot of really good red dresses on the award circuit this season and a couple of outstanding red dresses last night at the SAGs. At first I thought Anna Sawai in custom Armani Privé would be the By Lainey • Feb 24, 2025 01:09 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Youngest and the Youngest: We Have a Race! Coming into the SAG Awards, we thought that the most competitive acting race left would be Best Actress, between Demi Moore and Mikey Madison. We’ll get to that in another post, but we’re focusing on the lead actors here because Adrien Brody has won almost everything. Still, remember, By Lainey • Feb 24, 2025 10:16 am
Style Rihanna and Rocky: Tailored to Trial Courtroom fashion is not a recent preoccupation. For starters, it’s about presentation and respect for the court. Even regular degulars are told by their lawyers to be mindful of what they wear for trial. Conversations, then, about courtroom fashion aren’t new. They were happening in all the mob By Lainey • Feb 21, 2025 11:54 am
Style Wicked in Japan Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Jon M Chu were in Japan yesterday to promote Wicked. The movie opens there on March 7 and this was the last possible week that they could have travelled there because of course it’s been non-stop and now they pretty much have to stay By Lainey • Feb 21, 2025 10:53 am
Top Reads As Ever: The Tig… 3.0? I had a whole piece written and at 6:30pm last night as I was enjoying my turkey curry (Bridget Jones coded), Lainey sent me an As Ever post. My first thought was that Meghan Markle dropped a new photo but, no. It’s a post from a brand. Called By Maria • Feb 19, 2025 10:55 am
