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Megan Thee Stallion Is Ready to Heal
Music The Texas-born, Grammy-winning, chart-topping rapper forges a cathartic path as she prepares for a new album and the Hot Girl Summer tour. PHOTOGRAPHY Quil Lemons STYLED BY ERIC ARCHIBALD Three-time Grammy Award–winning 29-year-old rapper Megan Thee Stallion (given name Megan Jovon Ruth Pete) is in the midst of an ongoing metamorphosis. Just like she revealed on her Billboard No.1 diss track, “Hiss,” released earlier this year to sheer pandemonium, Megan is shedding toxicity in her life.
Notre interview avec Megan Thee Stallion
Titulaire de trois Grammy Awards, la rappeuse de 29 ans Megan Thee Stallion (née Megan Jovon Ruth Pete) est en pleine métamorphose. Comme elle l’a annoncé dans son “diss track” [morceau ayant pour but d’attaquer directement une ou plusieurs personnes à l’aide d’une attitude et d’un vocablaire agressifs] en tête du Billboard Hot 100 Hiss, dont la sortie un peu plus tôt cette année a causé quelque agitation, Megan a décidé de se débarrasser de tout ce qui lui empoisonnait la vie.
Esta casa de casi mil metros cuadros es un catálogo de estilo vibrante y detalles osados
Cuando se habla de "casa" con la escritora y directora estadounidense Mara Brock Akil , no necesariamente se va a hablar de muestras de pintura, apliques y metros cuadrados. Además de ser el motor creativo detrás de programas de televisión, esta guionista y productora resulta ser también una experta en diseño que renovó magistralmente la casa de Los Ángeles que comparte con su marido el director de series de televisión Salim Akil, y su hijos, Yasin y Nasir.
Style Advice From a 40-Year-Old Millennial
Over the next few years, the oldest millennials will hit a major milestone. Welcome to 40 Is the New 40, a series of stories about—and for—a generation rethinking what it means to get older. When I turned 39 this past March, all sorts of emotions came up for me: excitement, joy, confusion, anxiety. I was sitting on the cusp of 40, an age when I’d always assumed I’d be a published author, married with kids, living in a Brooklyn brownstone bought from the spoils of my success.
Doja Cat Overload
“Just Google ‘Chinese Crested,’” Doja Cat says, instructing me to find an image of the dog of her dreams. “They look like they’re 90 from age two weeks. They’re like old people,” she says with endearing wonder. I’ve been talking to the superstar-in-the-making for a few hours now, with the 26-year-old rapper and singer zooming from her Buenos Aires hotel. Her camera has been off, but that inimitable gravelly Southern California tone of hers has been coming through loud and clear.
A Weeklong Trip to Jamaica With Four Friends
Paddleboarding, pre-rolls, and cliffside villas.
Precious Lee: “Potrei anche uscire in abito da sera, se volessi”
La supermodella Precious Lee mi sta leggendo, letteralmente. Con la più spontanea naturalezza, mi sta raccontando di me stessa, delle mie abitudini, dei miei tic, delle mie nevrosi e, in qualsiasi altro contesto, una cosa del genere sarebbe un male. Ma in diretta Zoom dal suo appartamento pieno di cristalli immerso nella downtown di New York, Precious, che è anche una esperta di Livello 3 di pratiche del respiro, vuole mandare nient’altro che un messaggio positivo.
Precious Lee: “I will show up in a ballroom gown if I want to”
Precious Lee’s story originally appeared in i-D's The New Worldwi-De Issue, no. 363, Summer 2021. Order your copy here. Supermodel Precious Lee is reading me down. With the most casual ease, she’s telling me about myself, my habits, my ticks, my neuroses, and in any other context, that would be a bad thing. But Zooming in from her crystal-laden apartment in downtown New York, Precious, who is also a Level 3 certified breath worker, is relaying nothing but a positive message.
A Time to Heal: FKA Twigs Shares Her Truth
“It's a miracle I came out alive,” SAYS FKA TWIGS. The British singer, born Tahliah Debrett Barnett, has spent the past hour painfully recounting the abuse she endured for nearly a year at the hands of her former boyfriend and Honey Boy co-star, Shia LaBeouf. Sitting cross-legged on the floor of her London home, where she has been sequestered due to the COVID-19 tier-four lockdown, twigs manages to exude the raw vulnerability her audience has come to expect from her.
'It's A Miracle I Came Out Alive:' FKA Twigs on Her Abusive Relationship With Shia LaBeouf
Dress, Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood. Necklace, Slim Barrett, $3,535. “It's a miracle I came out alive,” says FKA twigs. The British singer, born Tahliah Debrett Barnett, has spent the last hour painfully recounting the abuse she endured for nearly a year at the hands of her former boyfriend and Honey Boy costar, Shia LaBeouf.
Ruth Negga Is the Breakout Red Carpet Star of the Golden Globes
Although the Golden Globes are often looked upon as the more jovial of the awards shows, the event still calls for nominees to be prepared to duke it out for top honors. Hence why Best Actress nominee and Vogue cover star Ruth Negga took to the red carpet in her own proverbial suit of armor. Glittering from head to toe in a silver sequined custom Louis Vuitton gown, replete with chest plate detailing and center zipper, Negga looked ready to take on the competition.
Aperture's 2020 Portfolio Prize Winner Portrays the Inner Lives of Black Americans
If ever a sentence begins with the colloquialism “What had happened was . . . ,” know that a rich story is to follow. It’s a clearing-of-the-throat kind of expression that sets up a fantastical plot twist in a gripping narrative, leaving listeners begging for more. If you’re not totally familiar with the phrase, I suppose that’s the point.
It’s What’s Underneath Your Coat That Counts, Too!
Photographed by Greg Harris, Vogue, October 2016 “Because the outfit.” It's a confounding excuse for putting fashion above the demands of practicality or comfort, but how else can we defend footwear that we can’t walk in? Or explain why Rihanna wears fur in summer? Sure, this logic may be based on nothing more substantial than a fabric or a feeling, but we don’t necessarily need to rationalize our outside-the-box outfit ideas—or the lengths we will go to realize them.
Unlike some other artists, FKA twigs and M.I.A. are actually questioning how NOT to appropriate culture
This image was removed due to legal reasons. When rapper M.I.A. boldy announced via Twitter this week that she wanted to discuss cultural appropriation, I thought, "Do go on." Rare is it that a significant figure of pop culture would broach the subject of her own volition — let alone suggest she was capable of co-opting the garb, dialect, or traditions of a largely underrepresented subculture to satiate a temporary fascination with it, as her pop peers have often been indicted for.
Are You a NanaYaa or a Makena? Meet the Stylish Stars of Africa’s Sex and the City
In a recent episode of An African City, Africa’s groundbreaking Web series centered on the chaotic love lives of five girlfriends in Accra, Ghana, the show’s heroine, NanaYaa, stops her beau short amid the throes of passion. He’s about to climax on her Ralph Lauren sheets and the New York City transplant is having absolutely none of it.
Michelle Obama’s Designer Christopher John Rogers on Racism in Fashion Industry
I love fabrics that play with light—anything iridescent or metallic or shiny; sequined—but anything that plays with light is associated with having money. Some of my white professors in art school saw my work and thought it was tacky. They wrote it off as out of touch and too tailored. What was hot, what was “fashionable,” was minimalism, like The Row—being so rich that you don’t even have to show it.
Cardi B on Her New Music, Marriage to Offset, and Fighting for Breonna Taylor
Hood, top, Paco Rabanne. Steven Klein It feels like a lifetime ago, given the breakneck pace of the news and the steady erosion of our political system, but it has only been a year since rap lightning rod Cardi B sat down with Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders in a Detroit nail salon in the summer of 2019.
Rita Ora’s not black, but her hair sure thinks she is
This image was removed due to legal reasons. As the running joke in cultural criticism circles goes, no one seems to be able to determine who exactly Rita Ora is. The singer(?), actress(?), sometime-athleisure-designer has been publicly scrambling to determine her place within the zeitgeist since her career's advent, with a sense of ambiguity surrounding her professionally, culturally and sartorially.
Clifford Prince King's Intimate Photographs of Black Queer Men
featured Creating tender scenes with friends and lovers, the LA-based artist offers a stirring vision of everyday ritual. By Marjon Carlos Clifford Prince King, Untitled (Grapes), 2017 Courtesy the artist What’s remarkable about Clifford Prince King is his ability to make strangers seem both intimate and removed in his work. There is a sense of perceived recognition with his images. Friends of friends you’ve been meaning to meet are within the frames.
Clifford Prince King's Intimate Photographs of Black Queer Men
What’s remarkable about Clifford Prince King is his ability to make strangers seem both intimate and removed in his work. There is a sense of perceived recognition with his images. Friends of friends you’ve been meaning to meet are within the frames. The faces of under-the-radar creatives whose work you respect but have never told so in person peer back at you.
Rapper, Actor, Calvin Klein Model: Is Joey Bada$$ Fashion’s Next Triple Threat?
Even while sitting on a patch of manicured grass, in the Palm Springs L’Horizon resort where Calvin Klein has moored for this year’s Coachella festival, rapper Joey Bada$$, one of the brand’s newest faces, couldn’t look more New York if he tried. The 21-year-old breakout star of East Flatbush rap collective Pro Era is dressed in a vintage Tupac tee thrown over a pair of black sweats embroidered with joyful weed leaves.
The Forever Fabulous Kimora Lee Simmons Finally Gets Her Due
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A few weeks ago, I watched almost every episode of the genre-defining reality show, Kimora: Life In The Fab Lane. Running from 2007-2010, it was based around the fast-paced and 24 karat gold-plated life of Kimora Lee Simmons.
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The Forever Fabulous Kimora Lee Simmons Finally Gets Her Due
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A few weeks ago, I watched almost every episode of the genre-defining reality show, Kimora: Life In The Fab Lane. Running from 2007-2010, it was based around the fast-paced and 24 karat gold-plated life of Kimora Lee Simmons.
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Fashion Was Super White in 2009, and It Still Is
We Can't Even: Stories dedicated to fashion in 2009, when everything was "bananas." Can you spot the pattern? Photo-Illustration: by Stevie Remsberg; Photo: Getty In 2009, I was full of doubts about fashion. Not because of the trends (although one musn’t forget about stacked platform pumps and peplum tops), but because my place within it was in flux. I had just graduated from graduate school at Columbia University, earning my masters in African American Studies.
The Story of Caroline Calloway & Her Ghostwriter Natalie
Seven years after I met the infamous Instagram star, I’m ready to tell my side of the story. The author (right) with Caroline Calloway Photo: Courtesy of Natalie Beach The author (right) with Caroline Calloway Photo: Courtesy of Natalie Beach The author (right) with Caroline Calloway Photo: Courtesy of Natalie Beach When I was a sophomore in college, I took a creative-nonfiction workshop and met a girl who was everything I wasn’t.
The Louis Vuitton Pochette Wasnât âEntry Levelâ â It Was A Gateway Drug
There is a lie I tell myself nearly every time Iâm about to buy myself something really expensive: âThis will change your life.â In the moment, I believe this fervently enough to put down my credit card in a buzzing, sparkling department store Iâve banished myself from, or engage in forbidden late-night online shopping when the melatonin hasnât quite hit.
The Zoe Report's Fall Fashion Issue Will Make You Rethink Your Wardrobe Plans
Editor-In-Chief: Emma Rosenblum Director Of Brand Initiatives & Features: Margaret Wheeler Johnson, @mwjohnso Creative Director: Becky Brown, @beckyabrown Site Director: Lauren Caruso, @laurencaruso_ Director Of Editorial Operations: Rosanne Salvatore, @rosannedanielle Senior Vice President Of Communications: Kimberly Bernhardt, @kimberly_in_nyc EDITORIAL: Contributing Senior Style Editor: Mecca James-Williams, @meccajw Deputy Editor: Angel Melero, @missangmelero Senior Fashion Editor:...
In Defense of the Pastie! The New Take on Braless-Flawless
Flash back to spring and the days leading up to the Met Gala. When it became all too apparent that I would in all likelihood be flashing pretty much the entire Temple of Dendur in my Christopher Kane dress if I didn’t come up with an inventive solution to its cutout lace detailing, I suddenly found myself feeling up a pair (so to speak) in a local Ricky’s NYC. Silicon, adhesive, and taking to the shape of my own chest, the pasties were intended to simply blend in.
The $26 Curve-Hugging Bathing Suit That Fits Me Better Than Any Other Swimwear
The author in her Icon Swim monokini. Photo: Courtesy of the author A few weeks ago, I ordered a $26 bathing suit to be express-delivered to my Miami hotel room — a move both highly economical and frivolous. The shipping fees totaled more than the bathing suit in question. I bought the one-piece based on the recommendation of an Instagram influencer: Jordyn Woods, the former Kardashian insider who’s been developing an empire of her own since her well-documented falling-out with the family.
Jackie Aina On ESSENCE Magazine's June Digital Cover
Of course, Jackie Aina is human. I know this, but the YouTube beauty channel sensation is so much a part of the interwebs, I almost had begun to think that she lived online.
Move Over, French Girl Style: Why We’re All About the Modern Roman Dolce Vita
Photo: Courtesy of Tine & Luisa / @tl180 Unbelievably, it’s been 55 years since Anita Ekberg made a literal splash among Rome’s ruins, the platinum blonde Italian vixen embodying the relentless dolce vita of Fellini’s now-classic depiction of Italian nightlife. But trust us: The dizzying scene of the Italian capital has hardly slowed.
Rihanna’s Next-Generation Bronzers Are Redefining Sun-Kissed Skin for All
A sunny ode to Roy Lichtenstein. Bronzers, from top, by Fenty Beauty, Marc Jacobs, and Guerlain; Neutrogena sunscreen; blue eye shadow by L’Oréal Paris. Rihanna, as we know, hides from nothing. Fashion statements. Big business. The sun. The Barbados-born performer chases it, as the name of her debut bronzer by Fenty Beauty suggests. Released this spring, Sun Stalk’r boasts eight shades—a category-redefining breadth in keeping with the makeup brand’s inclusive approach.
Frances Bean Cobain and Courtney Love Do Rock ’n’ Roll Chic
Photo: Nick Harvey / REX / Shutterstock When your rock star parents happen to be two of the biggest style influencers in recent memory, you have some mighty large shoes to fill. But as Frances Bean Cobain proved last night in her punk rock stompers, she’s more than sure-footed in that realm.
Isolde Brielmaier Takes the Art World on Her Own Terms
Creative polymath Isolde Brielmaier is enjoying a celebratory glass of wine at the Peninsula Hong Kong’s hotel bar. The lauded curator, who works both as Westfield’s national Executive Director of Art, Culture, and Community and an independent curator, has just launched the Peninsula hotel group’s global art program with the exhibition Art in Resonance—an event which set Art Basel Hong Kong in motion.
Lady Gaga Coolly Masters Denim in Summer Without Overheating
Jeans in the summer? We’re hot just thinking about it. But for Lady Gaga, the seasonally inappropriate wardrobe option is somehow a cooling agent. Stepping out in New York’s heat wave this morning after announcingher new single “Perfect Illusion,” the singer chose a pair of curve-hugging, high-waisted black jeans that were rolled at the ankle and cinched in at the waist, leaving little room for ventilation. Accenting the look?
An Art Exhibition Designed to Make Us Put Down Our Phones
Photo: Courtesy of the Peninsula Hotel Sitting on the smooth bamboo floors of “The Wonder Room,” an interpretation of a Chinese teahouse-cum–sound bath created by the architecture collective MINAX, I was faced with one of the great choices of our time: to selfie or not to selfie. The urge to document my surroundings was strong, almost compulsive.
Plastic, Fantastic! PVC Separates Are Fall’s Sleekest Surprise
Photo: Courtesy of Camille Charriere / @camillecharriere One word: plastics. No, no, really, go with me here. At first glance, the synthetic material may seem a perplexing textile to weave into your everyday wardrobe. Often associated with the fringe but no less fashion-forward tastes of your neighborhood punk and dominatrix, PVC separates seem like a fashion choice best reserved for after-hours.
The Best Fashion Instagrams of the Week With Rihanna, Beyoncé, and Amandla Stenberg
@adamselmanPhoto: Courtesy of Adam Selman / @adamselman Although Rihanna couldn’t make it to this year’s Met Gala (due to work-work-work-work-work obligations), she certainly had her own share of fancy dress fittings: She was tied into Adam Selman’s layered princess sundress, and the singer’s dutiful styling team put the finishing touches on a spring-ready frock that she paired with—what else?—a pair of Puma lace-ups.
The Best Fashion Instagrams of the Week: Bella Hadid, Rihanna, and Ruby Aldridge
@bellahadidPhoto: Courtesy of Bella Hadid / @bellahadid As it is on the runway, so shall it be on the ’gram! That’s not exactly how the saying goes, but as some of our chicest follows proved this week, it should be. With the legs-for-days trend kicking up a storm this season, Bella Hadid answered the call with a mile-long showing of her gorgeous stems. She smoldered in a monochromatic high-slit Versace gown (what other kind is there?) that showed off the former equestrian’s perfect stride.
Barneys Roundtable Black History Month: Inclusive Beauty
I am sitting within the emptied dining room of Freds Downtown, engrossed in a conversation around the subject of inclusive beauty in the luxury market, when a light tap on my arm steals my attention away. Beauty editor and influencer Kahlana Barfield Brown is trying to get my attention and begins motioning at my mouth. Unbeknownst to me, my red-stained pout has entrapped a small piece of lint and the stunning beauty expert is subtly bringing it to my attention.
Beyond Bundles: Black Women Are Using Wigs To Set Their Own Beauty Standards
Neon-green waves, inches down to the floor, an Afro reaching toward the sky — that’s the magic of wigs. Snatched is a week-long celebration of wigs, the people who wear them, and their role in Black beauty culture. Porscha Weeks' fingers move at a lightning pace as she works her way around the day-glow wig before her. With ashen strands sprouting from its roots, slime-green tips, and a slightly braided texture, there’s a dystopian edge to it that feels like the hair arrived from the future.
Why Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian West, Ciara, and More Turn Their Significant Others Into Personal Photographers
Photo: Courtesy of Beyoncé / @beyonce It’s the picture that launched a million memes: Leaning against the mirrored wall of an elevator, a Gucci-clad Beyoncé gazed wistfully into the camera lens of the iPhone her husband, Jay Z, was holding. The rapper quickly snapped the picture of his wife for her Instagram—and in turn, cemented himself in the role of photographer. The Internet was in a state of frenzy.
Why Long Phone Conversations Are Necessary to My Happiness
This Is Fine. is Broadly's weekly newsletter about the previously private and highly personal tactics people use to make the world less harrowing. In yesterday's newsletter, Marjon Carlos wrote about how marathon calls soothe her anxiety. Sign up here to receive a newsletter with a new dealing-with-life strategy each Sunday evening. I talk on the phone a lot; have so for as long as I can remember.
Career Talk With Teen Vogue's Samitha Mukhopadhyay
Samhita Mukhopadhyay is all hair, smiles, and laughter when she breezes into Tribeca’s Spring Place Studios on a rainy Tuesday morning. Swinging her jet-black mane and an equally giant Saint Laurent handbag (a recent obsession, she confesses), Teen Vogue’s Executive Editor immediately injects a buoyant energy into the dining room that the Barneys team has transformed into a makeshift photo studio for the day.
Vogue Cover Girl Imaan Hammam Reveals How She Spices Up Her Beauty Routine
It’s not often that a top model offers up her best-kept trade secrets. That type of career-making intel is something the industry’s enigmatic beauties don’t part with easily. But at Brooklyn’s Afropunk Festival last weekend, Vogue cover girl Imaan Hammam broke from the standard and happily divulged her favorite skin-care tip just in time for New York Fashion Week.
Wolf Alice’s Ellie Rowsell Breaks Down British Festival Girl Style for Glastonbury
The difference between British and American festival girl style? If we’re to believe Wolf Alice’s frontwoman, Ellie Rowsell—who is poised to hit the Glastonbury Pyramid stage tomorrow with band members Theo Ellis, Joel Amey, and Joff Oddie—it really boils down to London’s “shit weather.” As Rowsell sees it, “People seem to look a lot less trendy because they’re just wearing a rain jacket and look like a drowned rat.
Who Runs The World? These Girls! The Global Style Stars of 2015
If Instagram is the new message in the bottle for the millennial generation, then we would have to dub our favorite global style stars our fashion pen pals. After all, we’ve gotten to know these women of the world by following their ever-active social-media accounts, tracing their well-heeled steps in any number of the far-flung locales they call home.
The Best Fashion Instagrams of the Week: Kate Hudson Makes a Case for Holiday Athleisure
@anna_vrcCourtesy of Anna Cleveland / @anna_vrc Sure, we’ve been in defense of dressing up for party season—proselytizing on the benefits of leaving one’s drawstring waist-cinching outfits at the gym rather than trotting them out for Christmas dinner—but this week Kate Hudson posted a selfie that calls our holiday-dressing theory into question. Popping up on our Instagram feed, the actress appeared more than cozy in her Denver Broncos pajama set with her son, Ryder Robinson.
An Exclusive First Look at Rihanna and Stance’s Latest Sock Collaboration
To be sure, Rihanna knows how to create suspense. Vogue’s April cover starteased her adoring Navy for months with the long-awaited release of her eighth album, Anti—slyly dropping breadcrumbs of what was to come. She unveiled hits like “FourFiveSeconds” and meme-worthy visuals for “Bitch Better Have My Money”; she was photographed popping into late-night studio sessions, ramping up anticipation for her first album in four years.
I Ditched My Bag for a Fanny Pack and My Life Got Better
It was not irony that led me into the hip-hugging embrace of a fanny pack this past spring. I get it, though. It’s that whole so-bad-it’s-good, geek-chic, dad vibes thing. But I wasn’t trying to make that kind of tongue-in-cheek fashion statement. Watching the Insta-girls (the Hadids, Jenners and Kardashians) stride through airport terminals with their streetwear-inspired sacks styled across their sternums for a calculated “off duty” photo op wasn’t a source of style inspiration either.
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