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F OR ITS THIRD ANNUAL Top 25 Red Carpet Designers issue, THR surveys the creative drivers of the fashion world following a tumultuous year of musical chairs within its top houses. Among the movers and shakers on this year’s list: Anthony Vaccarello, who took over the top design position at Saint Laurent; Raf Simons, who departed Dior for Calvin Klein; and Maria Grazia Chiuri, who left Valentino after 17 years to become the first female creative director in Dior history. In the main story (page 80), senior fashion editor Booth Moore explores how the red carpet is affected by the new political correctness, the “see now, buy now” runway model that debuted at New York Fashion Week and the fashion world’s embrace of millennials. “It was challenging — figuring out…

LATELY, A LOT OF MEDIA people have been asking me what it’s like being a person of color working in Hollywood. Well, it’s a real roller coaster because not only am I a person of color, but I am a woman, and an overweight one at that. I’m like the least traditionally f—able of all the women you could gather and put on TV or film. Now you’re probably thinking, “Oh, Nicole, don’t say that about yourself! Every body is a beautiful body!” That’s a very nice thing for you to shout at me, but I already know that. I love who I am right now, and I’m not the one who’s telling myself I’m unf—able. It gets beaten into my brain from audition notices that say, “Looks like a…

By Chris Gardner & Tatiana Siegel Oops! The Stars Who Passed on La La Land. There’s a scene in La La Land in which Emma Stone’s character imagines an alternate life for her had a single event taken a different turn. Sound familiar, Miles Teller and Emma Watson? Those two originally were attached to Damien Chazelle’s modern-day musical before Stone and co-star Ryan Gosling came aboard, and they must be kicking themselves after La La Land’s over-the-moon reception at the Toronto and Venice festivals. Teller, of course, toplined Chazelle’s previous film, Whiplash, and was far along into a deal to star in La La Land. But he told Esquire in 2015 that he received a call from his agent, saying that the director “no longer thinks you’re creatively right for…

WHEN LORENZO DI Bonaventura was growing up in New Hampshire, his mother banned toy soldiers and guns from the home. But he began having nightmares, and a child psychiatrist put the young boy in a room full of the very toys his mom had banished. “The psychiatrist said, ‘Understand that this is a morality play. [Kids] need to know that good people beat the bad people, and if you take that away from them, they fear the bad people,’ ” he recalls. That conversation still lingers with di Bonaventura, 59, and is evident in the dozens of movies he has produced, from the smash ’em up Transformers and G.I. Joe franchises, which have earned $3.8 billion and $678 million, respectively, to the heavily armed thrillers Salt and Red. “Action movies,…

10 Alexander McQueen Nicole Kidman 11 Brandon Maxwell Lady Gaga 12 Dior Couture Charlize Theron 13 Elie Saab Couture Diane Kruger 10 Alexander McQueen SARAH BURTON Who wore it Margot Robbie, Brie Larson, Amy Adams, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, Jessica Chastain, Cara Delevingne Social presence McQueen — which last season showed in London rather than Paris for the first time in 15 years — boasts an Instagram following of 3.3 million. Followers respond to images like the “dream combination” of Chastain’s silver embroidered McQueen gown for Cannes, says her stylist Elizabeth Stewart. Why 2016 is an important year Six years after McQueen committed suicide, two biopics are in the works. Maven Pictures, the indie production company co-founded by Trudie Styler, is delving into the storied relationship between McQueen and longtime muse Isabella Blow, while…

ALMOST 20 YEARS after his first best actor nomination, Leonardo DiCaprio was starting to look disconcertingly like the Susan Lucci of the Academy Awards. But in November 2012 — perhaps as a thoughtful nod to the fact that he’d yet to win an Oscar despite three nominations, but was widely considered to be deserving of one — he received Marlon Brando’s best actor statuette for 1954’s On the Waterfront as a 38th birthday gift. The gifters were his friends and business associates at Red Granite Pictures, the primary backers behind The Wolf of Wall Street, which had begun shooting that August. As it happens, he’d be nominated and ultimately lose again for his starring role in the Martin Scorsese film about financial corruption, which DiCaprio also produced, before finally being…

WHEN HOLLYWOOD epics truly were epic, Cecil B. DeMille topped them all with Paramount’s 1956 film The Ten Commandments. Produced for a cost of $13.5 million (nearly $120 million today), the biblical drama was, at the time, the most expensive movie ever made, and its initial release took in $120 million worldwide ($1.06 billion today). Amid the massive undertaking, filmed on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula (and on Paramount’s Hollywood lot), Yul Brynner — the Russiaborn actor who faced off against Charlton Heston’s Moses as the ramrod-straight Pharaoh Ramses II — turned to his avocation, photography. “He really wanted to be a director, but as his life as an actor became bigger and the idea of directing faded, his photography was his link to that creative outlet,” says his daughter Victoria, who…

IN AN ERA WHEN presidential candidates appear on every television show short of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, it’s difficult to imagine it once was considered undignified for White House aspirants to be seen anywhere on TV except the network news. Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows in the 1950s is the last place Dwight Eisenhower would have been seen. That changed in 1968 with Richard Nixon. The Republican nominee, then 55, had an image problem: He almost universally was perceived as dour. His nottelevision-friendly appearance in a 1960 presidential debate against John F. Kennedy was seen as contributing to his defeat. Luckily for him, he had a friend at the nation’s top-rated network comedy show. NBC’s frenetically paced Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In regularly pulled in a 50 percent share, and…

ON SEPT. 15, THE THR TV TALKS SERIES DEBUTED, WITH THE New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, at the 92nd Street Y. Janice Min moderated the panel with the SNL alums, who dished on their IFC show (revealed: how they got Helen Mirren to host), impersonated what Barack Obama would say in L.A. and talked — what else — Trump (“I gave Bane his origin story,” joked Seth Meyers of his epic takedown of Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner). Watch at THR.com/TVTalks and look for the next installment with The Americans cast and crew, moderated by Tim Goodman, at 7:30 p.m. ET on Oct. 30.…

THE HAUTE WAY TO HIT REFRESH Carolina Herrera (left) and Kiernan Shipka How to make over a legendary brand for a new generation? Hire a fresh face like Shipka, 16, who represents the brand’s core values. “I mean, look at her,” says Herrera, 77, who has led her brand for 35 years and recently debuted the ad campaign featuring the Mad Men actress on Snapchat. “She is the perfect one.” For her part, Shipka believes “all of Mrs. Herrera’s designs really do withstand the test of time. There is this femininity to them, but there also is a strong assertiveness.” LANIGAN/FILMMAGIC. RONAN: DAN MACMEDAN/WIREIMAGE. LIVELY: IAN GAVAN/GETTY IMAGES FOR CHANEL. WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT THE STATE OF THE RED CARPET WHEN AT the Emmys, Amy Schumer appeared more comfortable…

WITH A MILESTONE 30TH ANNIVERSARY FAST approaching, it seemed that the flagship Ralph Lauren store on Rodeo Drive needed a little work. On Sept. 30, the reimagined 22,000-squarefoot space reopens with a new, more casual and coastal aesthetic — think less Dead Poets Society chic than the Manhattan mothership. Originally designed in 1987 by the late famed interior designer Naomi Leff (whose roster of clients included Steven Spielberg and David Geffen), the luxury outpost actually was Lauren’s second foray in Los Angeles; the designer originally had opened a women’s boutique just across the tony street in 1971. Why had Bronx-born Lauren, purveyor of a $3,495 cashmere sport jacket, driven his first antique-brass stake in a city where the most powerful men eschewed (and still do) shirts with buttons? The designer,…

• OF THE NUMEROUS individuals engulfed in the vast Malaysian embezzlement scandal that includes a cameo by Leonardo DiCaprio, Najib Razak undoubtedly is the most prominent. The meek-looking Malaysian prime minister — widely acknowledged to be “Malaysian Official 1” in a record-breaking U.S. Justice Department complaint — is the man at the helm of the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund, now alleged to have been used to plunder billions of dollars of public money that lavishly flowed into the U.S., spent on luxury properties, artworks and, of course, DiCaprio’s hit 2013 drama The Wolf of Wall Street. But eyes are increasingly turning to the larger-than-life figure often by Razak’s side: his bouffant-haired, Birkin bag-loving wife, Rosmah Mansor. It’s Mansor, 64, who, through her first marriage, is the mother of Riza Aziz,…

DESPITE ITS ages-old association with delivering bundles of joy, the noble stork has been sadly under-represented onscreen. Other than the one who dispatched Mrs. Jumbo’s bigeared baby in 1941’s Dumbo and the Groucho-esque Vlasic pickles mascot from the ’70s (“that’s the best-tastin’ pickle I ever hoid!”), the flock has been mighty scarce. Setting out to correct the oversight, co-directors Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland deliver big time with Storks, a fittingly buoyant, delightfully madcap romp from executive producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller about an overachieving stork who’s forced to embark on a road trip with a flame-haired orphaned teen and some precious cargo. While it doesn’t hit the gleefully inspired heights of Lord and Miller’s The Lego Movie — let’s be honest, what has? — the team’s irreverent brand…

THE BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL seemingly is on a mission. Having dubbed its 2015 event the “year of the strong woman,” kicked off by the feminist historical drama Suffragette, it went on to offer a festival-topping number of films from female directors and saw Geena Davis host the first symposium for her Institute on Gender in Media outside the U.S. While there’s no catchy tagline — yet — the 2016 event has set diversity front and center in the conversation. Director Amma Asante will open the proceedings Oct. 5 with A United Kingdom, nabbed recently by Fox Searchlight, and a day later the rising British filmmaker and the film’s star David Oyelowo (who also appears in Queen of Katwe, another film with a LFF gala screening) will be joined by…

AS THE CLOCK TICKS DOWN TO THE FIRST presidential debate on Sept. 26, network and cable news divisions tasked with moderating the three face-offs between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are girding for an especially tricky candidate in Trump, a likely surplus of animosity from both sides and unprecedented attention being placed on the moderators themselves. “If you look into the abyss of social media, it’s just fulminating hate all the time,” complains one news executive. “The environment is so toxic.” Moderating a presidential debate should be an honorific, a chance to showcase a network’s anchor in front of an enormous TV audience. More than 67 million people across networks watched the first 2012 tussle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, a viewership high not seen since 80 million people…

Can HBO Keep Its Throne Without Thrones? IT’S BECOME ONE OF THE FEW SURE THINGS IN television: For a 15th straight year, HBO topped all networks, this time with 22 Emmy wins. But how long can the reign last? Despite HBO taking two of the three most coveted awards (Veep as outstanding comedy, Game of Thrones as best drama) on Sept. 18, the gap is narrowing with FX, which came within four wins this year. That marks the lowest margin of victory during the past five years and puts pressure on HBO’s new programming chief, Casey Bloys, who will compete for Emmys in 2017 without Game of Thrones — the drama that has collected the most statuettes the past two years won’t air during the eligibility period because of a…

RAPAPORT & LEVINE Julie Tripler Rapaport, a senior executive in production and development at Amazon Original Movies, married writer Greg Levine (Parks and Recreation) on Sept. 4 at Kamp Kohut, a summer camp in Oxford, Me., that is owned by Rapaport’s parents. The ceremony, with 175 guests on hand, was officiated by close friend and writer Benji Samit (1600 Penn). The couple, who became engaged in September 2015 in Tuscany, will honeymoon in Greece. HITCHED, HATCHED, HIRED Inside the industry’s celebrations and news WEDDINGS Schuyler Moore, head of the entertainment department at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, married Sa Chiaravanond on Aug. 17 in Hawaii. The couple, who became engaged two years ago, purchased their rings and the bride’s dress the day of the wedding and honeymooned on Hawaii’s big…

SINCE 2000, AN ART installation called the Gateway Pylon Project, featuring an array of 100-foot-tall translucent glass towers, has presided over the entrance to LAX. The columns are synchronized to change colors in complex 15-minute sequences experienced most fittingly at dusk while stuck in a logjam near the intersection of Century and Sepulveda boulevards. It’s the light show that presages the shitshow ahead. “LAX just sucks,” says Paul Guyot, an executive producer on TNT’s The Librarians and the upcoming Nat Geo series The Black 22s. “The traffic is horrendous. I purposely schedule flights to avoid the worst traffic, but it still can take 20 minutes to cover the last few miles. After you get there, even if you fly first class and get in one of those ‘fancy people’ lines,…

LEONARDO DICAPRIO IS undoubtedly the highest-profile Hollywood name connected to the 1MDB Malaysian corruption scandal, which, in addition to more than a billion dollars of alleged money laundering, helped to finance his hit drama The Wolf of Wall Street. But another A-list name has appeared several times in the same orbit as the central figures in the fraud case, which is now part of a major U.S. Department of Justice complaint and ongoing criminal investigation. On April 16, 2010, Robert De Niro was among the guests at a star-studded event at the St. Regis in New York. The ceremony, also attended by Jamie Foxx and Charlize Theron, was held in honor of Najib Razak, the prime minister of Malaysia, and his wife, Rosmah Mansor, who was there to receive the…

CONFESSION: WHEN I’M ON AIRPLANES, I like to settle into the over-oxygenated air and get weepy over mediocre underdog sports movies. From its peak, almost to its nadir, it is a genre to which I am susceptible. But it isn’t a genre that television thrives in. The rare exceptions, such as Friday Night Lights or Survivor’s Remorse, are shows to cherish, but most TV series about sports succeed by pretending they’re not actually about sports. For at least one episode, Fox’s new drama Pitch is a series about baseball. Sure, it’s also about shattering glass ceilings, about the fear and misunderstanding that surface when someone new tries to break through in a milieu that’s set in its ways and about the courage of going for it when the system is…