| | | | | | | | Thursday, August 31st, 2017 | | | | | | “At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important."
- Queen Rania of Jordan
To sign up for this newsletter click here. " At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important."
- Queen Rania of Jordan
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | | |  | | | |  | | Remember Lord of the Flies? The novel you probably read in middle school about a bunch of upper-class British kids who get stuck on an island, go mad while trying to govern themselves, and kill their poor, sweet husky friend Piggy along the way? Yeah, well, Hollywood is in the early process of remaking it...but with girls. This has garnered some controversy. Of course, there’s people who have a knee jerk reaction to be angry anytime anything is gender flipped, but those people are deeply boring and not worth discussing. The more nuanced controversy has to do with the fact that it will be written and directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, who are, well, as white and male as the original novel’s main characters, which is particularly notable when even still female directors aren’t getting their fair shake in Hollywood (see the lineup of the Venice Film Festival for further proof). “Taking the opportunity to tell it in a way it hasn’t been told before, with girls rather than boys, is that it shifts things in a way that might help people see the story anew,” said McGehee in a statement. “It breaks away from some of the conventions, the ways we think of boys and aggression.” Others have pointed out that, you know, the story might not actually play out the same way with girls and, for some, the original extended its critique to patriarchy and, specifically, male aggression. Still some are hopeful for the flick, comparing it to films like The Beguiled and Mean Girls. | | | | | | Judith Leiber and Alexander Wang | | | | | One of the few labels Carrie Bradshaw didn’t like on Sex and the City? Judith Leiber. In a season 2 episode, Big presents her with one of Leiber’s trademark bejeweled minaudière and in voiceover, she horrifically muses, “It was wrong. It was just wrong.” And, sure, Leiber bags may be more popular among women of a certain age and a certain set, but they’re not always wrong. Carrie eventually changed her mind, carrying one in the movie without commentary, and maybe other people will too. Especially considering the most surprising fashion collaboration of the season may end up being between Leiber and decidedly too cool designer Alexander Wang. The result is a Swarovski-encrusted mini-purse made to look like a wad of rolled up hundred dollar bills (in actuality it will actually cost almost $5,000). Only 20 will ever be made, upping the exclusivity factor. Though, it makes sense for both brands. Leiber gets some downtown redemption that makes Carrie Bradshaw look foolish, and Wang makes another statement that he’s not just the guy who designs trendy sweatpants. | | | | | | | | | Proud Moms think their daughters can do anything, and you know what, often they’re right. In fact, proud Mom Kim Kardashian (who, by the way, is on something of a tear right now impersonating other celebrities in fashion shoots) really, truly thinks that ther 3-year-old daughter North West could be a better president than Donald Trump. “Anyone can run the U.S. better. My daughter would be better," she recently told Harper’s Bazaar Arabia. "We've worked so hard to get where we were and to have so many things that we were so proud of in our country, to just literally revert backwards is the most frustrating thing.” Other mothers had less political aspirations for their daughters. Indeed, Sonic Youth legend Kim Gordon recently collaborated on a line of sweaters with & Other Stories and thought her daughter Coco would be the perfect model. “I just thought she has a great look, beautiful but not conventional,” Gordon told us. “She looks great in the simplest things like t-shirts and hoodies…I just think of her a lot.” But has she thought of her looking great in the White House? If North can do it, why not? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Troye Sivan has already conquered the worlds of YouTube and teen pop. Now he’ll give acting a try. He’s joined the cast of a movie that already includes *deep breath* Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Cherry Jones, Xavier Dolan, Flea and more. Read more about it here. | | | | | | | | | | Chris Tucker, 46 (The Sixth Element’s Camp Icon)
Queen Rania of Jordan, 47 (Very Well Dressed Royal)
Richard Gere, 68 (Friend of the Dalai Lama)
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