#vogue article

[frostedsugarcookiehearts]

⋆⁺₊❅. i want you to ruin my life / i want you to fuck up my nights / i want you to bring it all on!!

schlatt was considering ordering a hit on whoever let that article sneak its way onto vogue's website.

it wasn't personal; the article was well-written and clearly a tag to gain people's attention and making it a talking piece. and it was exactly that.

so much of a talking piece, in fact, that you had somehow heard about it, even though you were basically a social media recluse beside the time you two had met through it. besides that, you stuck to your VHS player and vinyls.

but then those damned words came out of your mouth ― "did y'know vogue's said it's embarrassing to have a boyfriend?"

suddenly, the image of that bouquet of your favorite kind of flowers and love letters shoved in the back of his closet were burned into his retina. he'd planned on asking you that day to be your boyfriend, but what you said had just thrown a wrench in his plans.

he scoffed, trying to keep it cool. "i mean, i wouldn't say embarrassing, 's just a stupid article, right?" a sharp, incredibly fake laugh left his lips.

you were slumped on his couch, scrolling through the article absentmindedly on his phone. "i dunno, i think it has some good points," you replied casually, not even realizing those words were sending him crashing into a downward spiral. fuck!

he foolishly tried to supress his love confession the entire day, but you made it impossible. you were especially touchy today ― grabbing his arm, smiling at him like that, and you looked especially pretty. it was the new glow from finally being comfortable living in new york city by yourself, and having a new self-proclaimed "best buddy".

that was schlatt. and it quite frankly made him want to die.

sure, he loved being your buddy. he loved being the one you came to after everything, your first call, your closest confidant. but also? he found himself falling in love with you, rapidly and without warning. he had no problem being your buddy, but his feelings for you infected every area of his life. he thought about you when he woke up, while he ate, when recording, when editing, he dreamed about you when he slept ― it started to consume him.

ergo, he needed to tell you.

but now you had this new notion about how having a boyfriend was 'icky' and 'embarrassing' and he was sure that you didn't even like him, so it was ruining his chances even more that you were clearly not looking for one in the first place.

and then you two entered that bookstore, and all hell went loose.

you and schlatt were on your way home from a dinner at a nice jazz club, and you insisted on making a pit stop in the bookstore to grab this new novel everyone's been raving about in your book club. immediately, you ran up to the exhausted cashier, excitedly asking where the book was. they led you to it half-heartedly, but you were too wound up to care.

of course, it was on the top shelf, so schlatt came up behind you and plucked it off the shelf for you, placing it in your hands like a fairy godmother. he ignored the need to reach his arms out and pull you close by shoving his hands in the pockets of his jacket. right at that moment, a little sniffle escaped you and he could see your hands trembling.

you were cold. without a word of complaint needed, he shrugged the jacket off of his own shoulders and wrapped them around yours.

whipping your head around, you met his gaze with a tender, "thank you."

a burning hot feeling appeared on his face almost instantaneously. "'s no big deal, don't act so surprised." he grumbled, rolling his eyes.

and then you said something that made him just fall apart. "nobody gets me like you do, schlatt," you sighed dreamily, looking up at him with that smile that was exclusive to him.

the words fizzled up throughout his whole body, from his chest to the tip of his tongue, momentarily getting lodged in his throat. "i think that maybe if your boyfriend was me, it wouldn't be so embarrassing having one," he finally blurted, unable to hold the ticking time bomb that was his feelings down anymore. "i can cook and clean and you could get jambo on the weekends."

why did he say that? schlatt considered letting the bookshelf fall on him and swallow him whole.

that is, until you stood on your tippy toes and pressed your lips to his. "okay!" you chirped, skipping to the checkout.

aahh!! thank you for all the love & support everyone, i don't know if i'm permanently back yet but i just had an urge to write. i luv u all! <33

[theslinkenstein]

okay i’ll come back periodically and talk abt it as i feel like it, but, just saw a video abt the vogue article. and this thought is so true. part of why having a bf can be seen as embarrassing is bc a lot of the time, i already know that she had to sacrifice smtg or someone in order to be with that man. like she maybe had to stop being weird, stop acting a certain way, saying smtg, wearing smtg, etc. like i can just feel it in my girlhood strings.

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i’m back, i’m rereading it and i remembered one of the things i didn’t like abt it. part of it (and it could just be her usage of stuff like “uncool” or etc) just felt like having a boyfriend is embarrassing bc it’s a trend. and that should not be the reason. again part of it could’ve just been the way she worded it, but my point still stands. if you’re embarrassed by having a boyfriend it shouldn’t be bc everyone is bashing men or bc you don’t wanna be seen as a “boyfriend-girl” (which now that i think abt that we will get into in a sec). you should be embarrassed BC he’s a man. and please don’t be stupid, when i say “should” i mean like if this is how you feel this should be the why.

now as for that “boyfriend-girl” thing—in the article her exact words were “Even partnered women will lament men and heterosexuality—partly in solidarity with other women, but also because it is now fundamentally uncool to be a boyfriend-girl.” so glad we’re finally talking abt this, but you shouldn’t be a boyfriend-girl to begin with.

okay i was like halfway through typing that before i finally understood what she meant by “boyfriend-girl” so please ignore that. i’m still gonna leave it up bc i wanna keep my train of thought and let ppl interpret it as they want, but i understand now. but yeah you should be embarrassed if you are a boyfriend-girl?? like you have nothing else to talk abt if it’s not your man? and i’d hate to sound like a parrot (bc i see these videos all the time “you need hobbies” “go outside” “go do something in your free time” and blah blah blah) but seriously, get some fucking hobbies that aren’t your partner. (i changed it bc this kinda became a rant, only a smidge though)

[eddie-redmayne-italian-blog]

Eddie Redmayne yesterday night!!

'Broadway’s Best Gathered for Anna Wintour and Bee Carrozzini’s Annual Tonys Dinner'

Broadway’s Best Gathered for Anna Wintour and Bee Carrozzini’s Annual Tonys Dinner

Photo by Hunter Abrams

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Inside Rita Ora and Taika Waititi’s Intimate, Never-Before-Seen Los Angeles Wedding

“She proposed to me, and I said yes instantly,” filmmaker Taika Waititi says of how he and singer-songwriter Rita Ora became engaged. While the pair first met at a barbecue in 2018 that Taika hosted at his house in L.A., it wasn’t until 2021, when they were both filming in Australia, that they began dating. Rita popped the question while the pair were on vacation in Palm Springs in the summer of 2022, and they planned an impromptu wedding to be held in Los Angeles a few weeks later, on August 4. “It wasn’t in London or in France like everyone reported,” Taika clarifies. “It was in L.A. with a small group of friends.”

“At our home!” Rita notes.

“Our address was…no, I’m just joking,” Taika says, laughing.

Over the past year, the two have gotten a kick out of the misinformation about their nuptials that has spread like wildfire across the internet. “It’s actually been quite entertaining for us to see the different stories people made up and all the while getting to keep it to ourselves,” Rita admits. “And, I love that we now get to share what really happened—and to do it on our one-year anniversary, no less!”

As far as the planning process goes, there wasn’t one: The entire event was dreamed up and executed in just two weeks. “There were about eight people there—just close friends and family, and parents on Zoom,” Taika says, noting he was particularly thrilled to have his best friend Jemaine Clement fly all the way over from New Zealand for the last-minute ceremony. “It was really us and my sister, Elena,” Rita says. “Elena to the rescue!”

The bride wore a Tom Ford dress and Lorraine Schwartz jewels for the intimate ceremony. “Tom Ford is one of my favorite designers of all time and favorite humans in general,” Rita says. “He’s now one of my close friends, and I adore and admire him so much. To get married in his dress was a dream come true. And because it wasn’t planned, I didn’t know if the right dress was even going to be in town, and I just took the risk and went to the Tom Ford shop, and they had it perfectly waiting with the veil, in my size, no alterations needed to be done. I mean, it was like it was meant to be, to be honest. And it just made me so happy.”

Sami Knight styled the bride’s hair in soft, loose curls, and Anthony H. Nguyen created a natural, glowy makeup look. Meanwhile, the groom wore Brunello Cucinelli (and received a touch-up or two from Rita’s makeup artist along the way).

For the ceremony itself, the couple kept things simple. “I wore my mum’s pearls that she got married in. My sister, Elena, put [the bracelet] on my wrist. It was beautiful,” Rita says. “My sister walked me down the aisle, and it was just really simple and blissful and calm and private and fun.”

“Yeah, it was beautiful,” Taika adds. “Just having close friends and not having it too big. We didn’t have table settings or any of the stressful things that go along with weddings, and it was nice to just have it super-simple. My daughters were there, and they made everything really fun and easy: I think just because we didn’t have the pressure of having caterers and all of these things, you know, people turning up late, and all of the different moving parts.”

“I felt really peaceful actually,” Rita says. “It was almost like another day. We just all dressed up and got married.”

After the ceremony, Rita and Taika went to their friend Guy Oseary’s house for a dinner party. “He was so kind to host us at the last minute,” says Rita. “We got a group of people together, and we just had a great time!” As a surprise wedding gift from a friend, an Elvis impersonator showed up to serenade them, before everyone danced the night away to a playlist of the couple’s own making.

A year later, they both are still reveling in newlywed bliss. “It’s still working!” Taika exclaims. “I can’t believe it’s been a year.”

“Same. I can’t believe it’s been a year,” Rita says. “It feels like nothing’s changed since the day I met him at the barbecue. It just feels so good to be with my best friend.”

[kaylorfossil]

Seatbelts fastened, girls?

Good!

Ready for combat???

Good!

Full steam ahead!!!

[beautyintheblackness]

Charlotte Adigéry, the Belgian-Caribbean Camp Singer, Is Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd

The Ghent-based singer’s sound and style are both one of a kind.

#CharlotteAdigery 

Debut EP, Zandoli.

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Is Fashion Ready for Fifth Harmony?

The chart-topping girl band talks fashion moments, ’90s nostalgia, and their personal style icons.

For most pop acts, uniformity is the fashion goal, from the Supremes’s identical sequined gowns to Destiny’s Child’s Tina Knowles costumes. Traditionally, singing together means dressing in sync. But lately, modern girl bands have stopped matching, choosing instead to embrace each artist’s personality with individual outfits. No group personifies this shift better than Fifth Harmony, the chart-topping quartet who rose to stardom with hits like “Worth It” and “Work from Home.” Though they color coordinate and share a love of Gucci, bandmates Normani Kordei, Lauren Jauregui, Ally Brooke, and Dinah Jane each possess a unique take on fashion.

“We’re very individual,” said Kordei, on a recent visit to the Vogue office. “Our look has definitely evolved, and it’s given us the opportunity to find ourselves and know what we like and don’t like.” Since they first joined together on the second season of The X Factor, the girls have gone from wearing Topshop separates on stage to arriving at this year’s iHeartRadio Music Awards in flashy Philipp Plein. Finding their style and growing up in front of the camera wasn’t easy, but it shaped their strong opinions and fostered a collaborative spirit. The group recently enlisted stylist Johnny Wujek, whose daring choices helped them quickly embrace statement dressing. “In the beginning, we were 15 or 16 and being cutesy,” Jane said. “Now we’re trying to elevate, working with different stylists and their visions. When they’re with us daily, they get to know each of us, then we create something cohesive.”

Uniting their style means respecting their differences, particularly where influences are concerned. Brooke and Jane draw inspiration from Kim Kardashian West, while Kordei sources ideas from high fashion magazines and Jauregui looks to grunge-era icons like Winona Ryder. The resulting melange speaks to their Generation Y status with their affinity for all things ’90s. “We’re really paying homage to that whole era,” Jauregui said, citing the expressive vibe of groups like TLC that they hope to channel on stage. As for those energetic shows, they demand looks that are sultry, but versatile enough to permit non-stop dancing. Personal costume designer Ashton Michael creates their dramatic awards show and tour looks, but the girls are actively involved in the process, starting from the initial sketches. “He pulls through every single time. He’ll design it in one day and have it ready for you the next day. It’s magic,” Brooke said.

Thanks to Michael and Wujek, the group rarely feels off their game, but there is one thing they wouldn’t mind wearing more of: Alessandro Michele’s heavily embellished Gucci designs, which have struck a collective chord. “It took all of the strength inside of me to not buy 10 pairs of shoes,“ said Jauregui, who found herself in the brand’s New York boutique and picked up a pair of platform loafers on her last trip. Brooke echoes the pro-Gucci sentiment. “I’m obsessed—I have the backpack, the purse, and I just bought the high tops. The designer is absolutely killing it!”

Only time will tell whether Fifth Harmony will join Gucci’s roster of floral print–clad ambassadors, but in the meantime, they’ve got another line to consider—their own. With all of music stepping into merch, they haven’t ruled out the possibility of channeling their love of fashion into a namesake line. “It would be super dope, and I think it’s something our fans could relate to,” said Kordei. “There are days where I feel, oh my gosh, I’m going to wear a choker like Lauren today, I want to try these shoes because Dinah would wear it kind of thing; or Ally has this cool hairstyle, and I’m going to put pins in my hair like she did.” With a legion of Harmonizers hanging onto their every word—and look—it’s only a matter of time.

Here, the group talks personal style influences, online inspiration sources, and why they want to raid Rihanna’s closet.

Lauren Jauregui

On personal style

“I like to dress in edgy black leather and denim, but I like a wide range of things. I’m either dressing like a rocker chick, or I’m looking like I just stepped out of ancient Greece! It all depends on my mood, I love bohemian vibes, too.”

On finding inspiration

“Tumblr used to be a huge source of inspiration [for me] but not as much anymore. I do feel like the blogs that I follow share an aesthetic and draw a lot from ’90s influences. I love the dark velvets and lace, the really simple makeup, and the undone hair, plus the film stars from back then, Winona [Ryder] and Drew Barrymore, especially.”

Normani Kordei

On personal style

“I always aim more high fashion and editorial. I really enjoy editorial shoots, so I try to incorporate that within my daily routine and the choices I make as far as streetwear. [My style] is sexy, sophisticated, and always elevated.”

On finding inspiration

“I look to different magazines and runway fashion. In the music industry, the fashion can get a little repetitive and I like to look ahead. I take what I’ve seen on the runways and make it my own. In terms of people, I love Bella [Hadid], Sofia Richie, Zoë Kravitz, Zendaya, and Rihanna, who are all dope and fearless with fashion.”

Ally Brooke

On personal style

“For me, my style is very versatile. Right now, I’m wearing something that makes me feel sophisticated, and then sometimes I’ll switch and wear a V-neck and leather jacket. I definitely have a range: It can be eclectic or feminine, sexy or simple. I love statement pieces that really stand out and are creative.”

On finding inspiration

“I love to change it up. I scroll through Instagram and Twitter, and whenever I see something that speaks to me, I take a screenshot to save it for red carpet inspiration. Sometimes, if I see an outfit I like on the street, I’ll take a picture, too. References are so important. Jennifer Lopez inspires me because she has this tremendous versatility within her wardrobe. J.Lo, Kendall [Jenner], and Bella [Hadid] have all been killing it.”

Dinah Jane

On personal style

“I’m very into urban chic; it goes with my personality. I’m very chill, and when I’m out, I want to make sure that my outfit makes me feel comfortable and that I don’t feel restricted.”

On finding inspiration

“We look up to so many people, and I get a lot of inspiration from just going through Instagram and keeping up with what they’re doing. For me, it’s Rihanna and Kim Kardashian who I always keep up with, they both have incredible style. There was a phase where Kim started wearing blazers all the time, and I was hooked. I was like ‘well, I’m going to start buying blazers, too!’ and I started wearing them with blouses and jeans.”

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Andreja Pejic wearing Chanel ear rings and featured in the latest Vogue article about Digit@l Girls(DIGITAL GIRLS)