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Paris Fashion Week begins on Monday. It will mark the final week of Fashion Month, where the industry’s travelling circus of models, critics, buyers and clients, travel the four fashion capitals to see what the designers have decided the world will wear in the next six months. It has been a time of glamour, parties and a literal throwback to the pre-Covid-19 times of the industry. Throw in the Met Gala and you have a glorious celebration of an industry that barely survived the pandemic. But while all this was happening, the other side of the industry was on trial. The seedy, creepy and abusive side that many would want to turn a blind eye to. While the new generation supermodels like Gigi Hadid, Imaan Hammam and Adut Akech were…
Ashley Fetters There are two kinds of comedians, according to Hacks: old-school stand-ups, the kind that rely on artfully crafted one-liners and ba-dum-chhh punchlines, who roam the stage while they perform; and contemporary, disgustingly cutting-edge performers, who sit on stools, ruminating in cadences that just barely sound like jokes. Hacks – in which a disgraced young comedy writer winds up working for mega-successful Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), who’s been cashing in on the same routine for years – hammers home early and often that Deborah sits (or rather, stands and paces) squarely in that first category of comedian. She’s old guard rather than vanguard. Smart won the Emmy for her portrayal of Vance, at the ceremony on Sunday. Her first for a starring role. Since 1979,…
Catherine Zeta-Jones is “really looking forward” to the “great camaraderie” on the set of Wednesday. The 51-year-old actress is set to star as Morticia Addams in the upcoming Netflix series helmed by Tim Burton, and the Welsh-born star can't wait to start filming in Romania shortly. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night, where her husband Michael Douglas, 76, was nominated for the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series accolade, she said: “I’m just about to start shooting in Romania. “I’m so excited to be working with the great Tim Burton, and the make-up and costume designer who I’ve worked with before, and with Luis Guzmán, playing Gomez, who I worked with on Traffic. It’s going to be a really great camaraderie.…
Hip-hop group The Fugees, which comprises Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel, have reunited to announce their first tour in 25 years and first shows in 15 years, celebrating the anniversary of their blockbuster 1996 album The Score. The 12-city tour launched on Wednesday with a show in New York. That New York show is in support of Global Citizen Live, a global broadcast event “calling on world leaders to defend the planet and defeat poverty”, to air tomorrow on SABC2 at 10pm. The rest of the tour, which is presented by Diaspora Calling and produced by Live Nation, will begin on November 2 at United Center in Chicago and cross the US before concluding in Nigeria and Ghana. The Fugees charitable fund will partner with Global Citizen to…
Hanisha Kapoor, chief operations officer at ArchiesBeauty.com, shares make-up trends experimented with by Bollywood divas, throughout 2021, for inspiration. The Classic Red Lip We don’t see a future where classic red lips go out of fashion. The right way to achieve this celebrity look is to focus on accentuating your lips and keeping the rest of the face minimal. Give your lips a good scrub to plump them, moisturise, and apply a red lip liner to define the shape of your lips. Now go on with the perfect shade of red, and finish your look with a slick of eyeliner, and minimal concealer and foundation. No Make-up Look Deepika Padukone, pictured above, does a wonderful job of achieving the minimal look by softly covering any dark spots or blemishes and…
IANS In all the excitement, it’s easy to overlook the impact a wedding has on the environment. While everyone is making their big fat wedding dreams come true, they are also adding to their carbon footprint and undue energy consumption. Modern couples are now looking for ways to have a wedding with an environmentally conscious mindset. It’s become about incorporating less waste, locally sourced and seasonal food, and natural materials over the use of plastic. Mindful wedding planning and decor includes the use of recycled paper and goods along with eco-friendly venue needs. Check out this quick guide by Prerana Agarwal Saxena of Theme Weavers Designs, that will help you to achieve an environmentally conscious wedding without compromising on luxury: Choose locally sourced material to uplift artisans Sustainable can be…
