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16/10/2024

Donald Trump played (and swayed), but it did not please Rufus Wainwright.

The Canadian American artist responsible for one of the most well-known covers of Leonard Cohen’s classic ballad “Hallelujah” scolded former president Trump on Tuesday for using the cover version of the song at a town hall in Oaks, Pa., on Monday night. In what has been described as a baffling moment of his presidential campaign, Trump ceased taking questions and instead spent close to 40 minutes bopping his head, swaying and meandering onstage to music.

“Of course, I in no way condone this and was mortified,” Wainwright’s statement continued, “but the good in me hopes that perhaps in inhabiting and really listening to the lyrics of Cohen’s masterpiece, Donald Trump just might experience a hint of remorse over what he’s caused. I’m not holding my breath.”

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15/10/2024

To capture the early Saturday Night Live experience of Garrett Morris, former “New Girl” actor Lamorne Morris asked “What am I doing here?” And not for the first time.

Just as Garrett’s contributions to the early SNL are too often qualified, Lamorne once felt similarly reduced on his own hit show “New Girl.” He thinks back: “‘Oh I know that show. You’re the Black dude.’ It was like that a lot,” Lamorne says of the Fox sitcom. “And that’s kind of how Garrett felt when people mentioned SNL.”

So maybe it’s funny — or fate — that for his first big film role, Lamorne is once again playing the Black dude. Just as Garrett had to prove himself after his auspicious big break, Lamorne has emerged post-“New Girl” as an actor who can harness spontaneity, sensitivity, goofiness and depth.

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15/10/2024

Manuel Cuevas’s work has resonated through seven and a half decades of musicians across genres, who still clamor for an appointment to just be seen for a fitting.

At age 91, in his studio nestled among the woods and farms 30 minutes outside Nashville, Cuevas still cuts and sews with ease. Each new piece of fabric is a path to blaze, with every stitch contributing to a design that captures the unique flare of the person who will fill its final form.

At age 12, Cuevas saw a Sears catalogue offering formal dresses. “When I saw that I said, ‘I’m gonna make dresses for women and I’m gonna make them so different I’m gonna shock the world,’” he explains.

In giving agency to young women, he would learn firsthand the liberating power of fashion.

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14/10/2024

Pamela Anderson’s sincere wonderment with nature’s edible possibilities streams through “I Love You: Recipes From the Heart,” the Hollywood icon’s debut cookbook. Its plant-based recipes trade on her longtime animal rights activism.

“I always thought that’s the symbol of success, if you can open your refrigerator and it’s just packed,” says Anderson.

“I Love You” arrives at a moment when Anderson has begun to wrest control over her public image — one that outside parties have sometimes shaped on her behalf, and not always with her consent.

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10/10/2024

The Post’s TV critic Lili Loofbourow writes: Thirty-five years after they killed their parents in their Beverly Hills home, Lyle and Erik Menendez are once again objects of enormous public interest.

The brothers, who are serving consecutive life sentences after they were convicted in 1996 for the first-degree murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez, might go free. Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón announced his office was reviewing two new pieces of evidence that could provide sufficient basis for a resentencing, or even a new trial.

A true crime show explores the perpetrator’s experience, digs into the larger social context, and records the way the justice system responded to extralegal pressures. These repackagings usually retain most of the scandalous detail available in the original tabloid takes. But the tone, despite these indulgences, is corrective; rather than celebrate the murderer’s conviction, the viewer tends to emerge swathed in reasonable doubt.

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09/10/2024

The Post’s Robin Givhan writes: It’s been 20 years since the Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated one of its costume exhibitions to the attire of men. And it has never focused an exhibition squarely on the subject of race. But its Costume Institute show will examine the complicated story of the Black dandy, which is a locus of our ambivalence about race, gender, class and masculinity.

History has shown an appreciation for a man who strutted into a room wearing a head-to-toe coordinated ensemble, perhaps in a searing shade of crimson, complete with matching alligator shoes. Just ask folks in some quarters of Chicago or Detroit. That wasn’t fashion. It was style. Nonnegotiable. And now, the Met agrees.

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08/10/2024

For the founders of FUBU, which started from the basement of a Queens, New York, home in 1992, Atlanta was the right fit for a reintroduction: A Black cultural epicenter embodying the grit, hustle and “For Us, By Us” ethos that powered the brand to redefine streetwear during the golden age of hip-hop.

That vision remains central to FUBU’s identity as the brand returned to the runway at Atlanta Fashion Week.

The resurgence of Y2K streetwear is widely apparent. FUBU’s efforts stand out amongst competitors, attracting collaborations with companies that have already a major stronghold among younger shoppers, including Puma, Urban Outfitters and Forever 21.

“Our goal is to attract the younger demographic, but we also know that we have a community that grew up with us for the last 30-odd years that are not kids anymore and we want to service them too,” says Carlton Brown, FUBU president and co-owner.

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07/10/2024

On the last weekend in September, a barbecue stand by the river sells gator and rice, smoked frog legs and buffalo and boar sausage. Townspeople square-dance, with a 95-year-old man calling out the moves, and crown a 20-year-old nursing student as festival queen.

But the heart of the Roadkill Cook-Off in Marlinton, W. Va., is the culinary competition. The bizarre foods. The “roadkill.”

“The Rotary Club, the Lions Club, the Shriners Club — this is how they raise money,” says Kendall Beverage, whose team, the P*P Buck Busters, cooked deer-and-bean. “This fundraiser funds our schools, our sports teams, all year round.”

Years ago, there was a sense that the shindig cast West Virginians in a bad light by leaning too far into stereotypes of “roadkill and hillbillies and stuff,” says Marlinton native Joshua Barkley, who wears a coonskin hat, pioneer fringe jacket and a bowie knife hanging on one hip and a flintlock pistol on the other.

“But,” he says, “this is just who we are.”

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04/10/2024

Brittany O’Grady sees her tendency to be an emotional open book as core to her acting. She feels, and it shows up in the work.

“I’ve been told my whole life to get a tougher skin,” says. “I have now fully accepted that my sensitivity, that what I physically and emotionally feel, is actually a superpower.”

Even with HBO’s “White Lotus,” Disney Plus’s “Elsbeth” and her new film, Netflix’s “It’s What’s Inside,” all under her belt, it seems the 28-year-old is just getting started.

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04/10/2024

Maybe the only person in fashion who can still create actual trends is Miuccia Prada, who continues to ride high from the ongoing viral success of her brand Miu Miu, writes.

Most fashion designers today do things that won’t really trickle down to the rest of culture. But Y2K style, miniskirts, crop tops, perverted prep, boat shoes, penny loafers — all these things you keep reading about “making a comeback” in trend reports or on social media got their start on Miuccia Prada’s runways over the past three years.

At Miu Miu, even when you try to look pulled together, you can’t help but get a bit messed up.

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03/10/2024

The old aphorism has always been that a lot of cash can buy you clothes and fashion, but no amount of money can buy you style, writes The Post’s Rachel Tashjian.

At Valentino, though, new top gun Alessandro Michele is waving an antique-ring-stacked finger at that idea and saying, “No, no, no.” More than the clothes, which were sumptuous, decadent and romantic, if a bit stagy, Michele’s message was that his remit at Valentino is to live his life as a model for the world, or at least the Valentino world. He is a monk of luxury, following in the path of the luxury lords, writing his luxury messages

On Sunday, Michele unveiled his first show for Valentino, the most anticipated of the season and a major comeback moment for a designer who abruptly left Gucci, the Kering flagship he turned into a $10 billion business, only two years ago.

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01/10/2024

A team of lawyers announced Tuesday that they would be filing 120 s*xual assault lawsuits against Sean Combs — a massive legal action that appears to have few, if any, precedents in the era.

The lawsuits would exponentially increase the number of s*xual abuse accusations against the embattled music producer.

Combs is currently being held at a Brooklyn jail on federal charges of racketeering and s*xual trafficking.

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30/09/2024

Presidential campaign trails are paved not just with rallies and glad-handing and stump speeches, but also with food.

Last month, JD Vance was photographed ordering cheesesteaks at the legendary Pat’s King of Steaks in Philadelphia. Similarly, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz last month visited a Raleigh location of Cook Out, where Gov. Roy Cooper suggested the two order milkshakes, a specialty of the beloved Tar Heel State-based company.

When they go well, campaign experts say, such stops can serve a few fundamental purposes. And while many of these interactions might look casual, a lot goes on behind the scenes to pull them off.

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27/09/2024

Maggie Smith, a scene-stealing British actress who won Oscars for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and “California Suite,” later enchanting audiences as a professorial witch in the Harry Potter juggernaut and as a sly dowager countess on the TV series “Downton Abbey,” died Sept. 27 in London. She was 89.

Her family announced the death in a statement released by publicist Clair Dobbs but did not provide further details.

For most of her six decades in show business, Ms. Smith defined herself mainly as a theatrical actress, with memorable roles in London’s West End and on Broadway. A comedian of incandescent wit and a tragedian of cunning power, she portrayed both Oscar Wilde’s class-conscious Lady Bracknell and Shakespeare’s ruthlessly ambitious Lady Macbeth with spellbinding precision.

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26/09/2024

No one has ever been as famous for helping other people put on clothes as Law Roach.

He dressed Celine Dion, cheekily, in a “Titanic” Vetements sweatshirt. Hunter Schafer, impossibly, in a single feather as a top. Anya Taylor-Joy, joyfully, in hot-pink Dior couture with a matching pillbox hat. He often put Zendaya in vintage clothes from his store.

The stylist has become an essential part of the Hollywood firmament, where brand deals can rival paychecks for major film roles. And the job is not just about money: Clothes have become mini-trailers for films, in large part thanks to the approach of stylists like Roach.

It’s become trendy to say that fashion has become a part of popular culture, but the reality is that most people aren’t looking at an Armani or Louis Vuitton dress on the runway. They’re learning about it through Zendaya.

caught up with The Post to discuss his new book and how he changed the way we see celebrities.

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26/09/2024

Etsy is a portal to an alternate reality, where an already weird election is, via its T-shirts, growing substantially weirder.

Of course, many political T-shirts, starting with the campaign-sanctioned official ones, are perfectly bland. Political memorabilia has long followed fashion trends, so T-shirts and sweatshirts have become common political canvases since the 1960s.

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26/09/2024

Hoda Kotb, co-anchor of NBC’s “Today” show with Savannah Guthrie, will leave the program early next year after 17 years, she announced Thursday.

During the show’s morning broadcast, Kotb shared that her decision to leave involved a “new decade ahead” and that her mother and daughters “deserve a bigger slice of my life pie.” Kotb cited turning 60 last month as the moment she realized she wanted to leave the show.

Kotb said she will stay in the chair until early 2025 and will remain on the network in “some capacity.” Besides the morning show, Kotb was also a co-anchor alongside Jenna Bush Hager for the network’s fourth-hour slot.

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24/09/2024

If New York is fashion’s grittiest capital, London its most underground and Paris its most extravagant, Milan is the one that best mixes business with pleasure.

You’ve got the swag of Versace, the wit of Moschino and the megawattage of Prada, but humming alongside all that glamour is industry. This is a garmento’s town, and everyone in the audience, whether they’re front row or standing, is ready to make a deal.

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23/09/2024

No longer tasked with just pumping up the crowd, today’s mascot should also help expand a team’s merchandising opportunities (i.e. make money) and embody the spirit of the organization.

What does it say, then, that the vast majority of mascots are dudes or, at the very least, dude-coded?

In Brooklyn, a new kind of mascot has emerged. Ellie the Elephant’s vibes are undeniably femme, Black and — in the words of one fan, spoken with great affection — “so gay!”

This is by design.

When creating a new mascot for the WNBA’s New York Liberty back in 2019, chief brand officer Shana Stephenson had a nonnegotiable: Ellie would be unabashedly feminine.

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23/09/2024

Review by Chris Kelly: One of Katy Perry’s last Billboard No. 1s was “Roar,” her eye-of-the-tiger empowerment anthem from 2013. The song found new life three years later, when Perry performed it at the Democratic National Convention and lent it to Hillary Clinton for a campaign-closing ad that aligned values like respect and courage with the song’s mad-as-hell feminism.

These days, “Roar” and other Perry hits play like artifacts of the era of hope-and-change politics and girl boss feminism. Maybe that’s why “Woman’s World,” the first single off Perry’s new album “143,” landed earlier this year like a dispatch from a parallel universe. Over synthesized disco pop, Perry lays out a blueprint for the “feminine divine” while trying to tap the s*xy confidence of a Maybelline ad.

“143” plays like an attempt to return Perry to those glory days. This is an album of anonymous electro-pop, very simple sentiments (“I’ll love you for life”) and hip-hop-inflected “bangers” that tend to be “all bark with no bite.”

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20/09/2024

Winning over Latino voters is one of the Harris campaign’s hardest challenges; according to a recent poll, 55 percent of Hispanic likely voters would choose Vice President Harris over Donald Trump — a smaller share than the 65 percent of Latino voters who went for President Biden four years ago.

“Given the statistics on Puerto Rican and Latino men, young people who are supporting Trump,” a boost from Bad Bunny would be “even more important” to Harris’s electoral prospects than Taylor Swift endorsement, says Maria Quiñones Sánchez, a former Philadelphia councilwoman.

“To be honest, I don’t think he would” endorse, says Carlos Emmanuel Calderón, a Puerto Rico-based content creator and Bad Bunny mega-fan who met with Harris when she visited the island earlier this year. Almost all of Bad Bunny’s activism, Calderon says, “is Puerto Rican-based and -related, and we, unfortunately, as a territory in the United States, can’t vote.”

Could he still be moved to endorse her? Nadie sabe.

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19/09/2024

At 51, Kathryn Hahn is thriving. This is odd for her, as she doubted her own professional survival for years. What would it be like if her fear of disappearing into “old-actress land” once she hit her 30s and 40s had become a reality? What if it had all fallen apart? The three-time Emmy nominee shakes her head in some disbelief that it didn’t.

“I have a lot of optimism, but it’s almost like you have to fake it until you feel it, which is constant for me,” she says. “Because it was a lot of rejection for a long, long time.”

Now Hahn is returning as Agatha in Disney Plus’s “WandaVision” spinoff, “Agatha All Along.”

“I want the show to succeed beyond anyone’s wildest expectations,” she says, “but you also have to surrender.”

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18/09/2024

At the entrance to Central Park, a young woman gasped as she saw 84-year-old talk show legend Maury Povich, who had been America’s patron saint of paternity tests for more than 30 years. (She asked for a picture, of course, which he obliged.)

Slipping by unnoticed was his wife of nearly four decades, trailblazing news anchor Connie Chung. She wore a visor, not to disguise herself to passersby, but because at 78 she likes the effect of it — “It’s like an instant facelift,” she joked.

Not that Chung minds not being stopped for photos. A self-proclaimed recluse, she swears by a mantra repeated in many late-night phone calls with Povich over the years: Take the work seriously, not yourself.

The couple caught up with The Post to discuss their marriage, careers and how D.C. shaped them ahead of Chung’s new memoir.

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17/09/2024

At New York Fashion Week, IB Kamara — editor of indie magazine Dazed, stylist of countless fashion spreads and runway shows — added yet another title to his laundry list of jobs: pretty good designer.

Now the creative director of Milan-based Off-White, the hugely influential brand started by Virgil Abloh, who died unexpectedly in 2021, Kamara showed wrap skirts that barely covered models’ bums, necklines that plunged to the belly button and plaid pants with tight tops.

Privately, fashion insiders have wondered whether Kamara and Off-White can ever regain its influence, and whether he should do so by attending to Abloh’s ideas or inventing his own. What responsibility does a new designer have to carry out a founder’s vision?

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17/09/2024

Sean “Diddy” Combs was indicted by a grand jury on charges of racketeering conspiracy and s*x trafficking for crimes as early as 2008, according to a federal document unsealed Tuesday.

Combs was arrested the previous day on the federal indictment in New York, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.

The indictment comes almost a year after the first of 10 s*xual assault lawsuits was filed against Combs, with accusations spanning the entirety of his more than 30-year career as an artist and music producer. Several of these lawsuits accused the mogul of s*x-trafficking, a federal crime.

Speculation of an arrest has been building since March, when the Department of Homeland Security executed search warrants on Combs’ mansions in Los Angeles and Miami.

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