| | | | | | | | | | | | "Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now."
- Alber Elbaz
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- Alber Elbaz
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | | |  | | | |  | | In a rare turn of events for the summer season, every movie debuting this weekend, two in limited release and one going wide, are critically adored. That wide release is, in case you’ve been on a media detox for the past few weeks, Spider-Man: Homecoming. It’s not only the third reboot for the web-slinging franchise, but also now puts Spidey in the same cinematic universe as all those Avengers (Gwyneth Paltrow even pops up as her Iron Man character Pepper Potts). Though, the film differentiates itself from so many other superhero movies by keeping its hero in high school, and doubling as a John Hughes-esque coming-of-age flick. Those limited releases may both have the word “ghost” in the title, but neither is a horror film. The first, A Ghost Story, is a Sundance hit that finds Casey Affleck, fresh off his Oscar win, decked out in a bedsheet with two holes cut out for eyes playing a literal ghost who haunts the family home he once shared with his wife, played by Rooney Mara. Director David Lowery’s film may sound cheesy, but it's said to beautifully hit on all those deep themes of time, space, love and death. Meanwhile, City of Ghosts is certainly less whimsical. It’s a documentary, after all, and one about anti-ISIS activists in Syria at that. “A powerful reminder of how essential freedom of the press really is, and how easily it can be taken away,” the AV Club writes in one of many glowing reviews of the powerful film. | | | | | Jeanne Lanvin opened her fashion house in Paris in 1889, became an official couturière in 1909, and reached the peak of her fashion influence in the ‘20s and ‘30s. Today the label stands as France’s oldest fashion house still in operation (Vuitton and Hermès are older, but they didn’t make clothes until recently), but its status after its founder’s death has been up-and-down. After taking over the house in 2001, Alber Elbaz brought Lanvin to renewed acclaim but was unceremoniously fired, much to the shock of the fashion world, in 2015. Bouchra Jarrar, a veteran of design teams at Lacroix and Balenciaga, was brought on as his replacement, but after just 15 months on the job and with only two collections under her belt she’s gone too. The announcement comes amidst a notable sales decline at the house, and while the creative director role carries notable prestige, one wonders how many designers would want to take the job under such intense pressure. | | | | | Andrew Garfield has spent the past few months in London playing an openly gay character diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in the West End revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. He has also, as we’ve recently found out, been spending his free time binging all nine seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race (which explains why he popped up at a drag queen show lip syncing to Whitney Houston earlier this month). While taking questions during a discussion about the play, he quipped that, “I am a gay man right now just without the physical act – that’s all.” This, of course, has led to some criticism about the remark, namely revolving around the fact that liking a TV show and taking an acting job does not make one all the sudden a “gay man right now.” | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Los Angeles County Museum of Art
@LACMA | LACMA has started a new artist in residence program, except it’s for the Instagram feed. Oh, the times we live in. Guadalupe Rosales is the first to take on the project, and is known for her own accounts @veteranas_and_rucas and @map_pointz, which document Latina youth culture in 1990s Southern California. | | | | | | | | | | Michelle Kwan, 37 (Ice Queen)
Robin Weigert, 48 (Big Little Therapist)
Mo Collins, 52 (AKA Joan Callamezzo)
Shelley Duvall, 68 (Shining Star)
Ringo Starr, 77 (The Beat of the Beatles) | | | | | | | |
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