Modern Beauty Trends: In: Kanye West’s Fashion Advice

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

In: Kanye West’s Fashion Advice | Out: Big Sunglasses

The Versace family isn’t too pleased with American Crime Story.
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“A better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.”

— Michelle Bachelet

President Oprah?

But Also, Maybe, the Actual Possibility of President Oprah

Oprah Winfrey’s rousing Golden Globes speech didn’t just bring the celebs assembled inside the Beverly Hilton to their feet, it practically broke the Internet. It was not only the biggest moment of the night on social media—calls for Winfrey to run for president in 2020 soon began trending. Indeed, CNN media reporter Brian Stelter reported the next morning that sources close to Winfrey says she had considered it, but certainly hasn’t made a decision (this is in contrast to Winfrey’s previous public statements that she’ll never ever run). In a world in which the former host of The Apprentice is our actual president, it’s not much of a leap, of course. Yet, there’s already a backlash for that very reason: Should we have two celebrities with no previous elected experience as president back-to-back? The title of Thomas Chatterton Williams’s op-ed in The New York Times, “Oprah, Don’t Do It,” speaks for itself, and Vanity Fair surmises that the hope of #Winfrey2020 really exposes the Democratic party’s “existential crisis.” On the other hand, she is Oprah and there’s no way these times could get any crazier. We’d think about it more (what is Oprah’s take on single-payer, anyway?), but for now this seems more like an isolated news cycle curiosity than something that will actually come true. Get back to us when Oprah suddenly starts spending a lot of time in Iowa.

The Real Versaces

Fictional Versace

One of the inherent moral issues with the true-crime genre is that, often, victims and/or the friends and family members of late victims are still alive and can be affected by the production. Though word of the impending Season 2 of American Crime Story focusing on the murder of Gianni Versace has been out for over a year, the Versace family hasn’t publicly commented. Producer Ryan Murphy insinuated that word got back to him that Gianni’s sister Donatella Versace, at the very least, did not want depictions of her two children included in the series, and Penélope Cruz, who is playing Donatella, says she did speak to the designer before taking the role (she’s a longtime friend, and Cruz has worn Versace on the red carpet many, many times). Just days before the show’s premiere, however, the Versace family broke their public silence in a statement: “The Versace family has neither authorized nor had any involvement whatsoever in the forthcoming TV series,” it read. “Since Versace did not authorize the book on which it is partly based nor has it taken part in the writing of the screenplay, this TV series should only be considered as a work of fiction.” This isn’t much of a surprise considering that the Versace family has long disputed claims made in reporter Maureen Orth’s Vulgar Favors, the book that inspired the series. Though, it’s not a total slam, either. As the true-crime craze continues to rollick through culture, we should all be reminded that fictionalized versions of real-life events are just that: fiction.

Kanye West’s Exclusive Fashion Advice Newsletter

Giant Sunglasses

Kim Kardashian is apparently the sole recipient of the most exclusive fashion advice newsletter in the world: Kanye West’s. We’ve long known that West, the Yeezy designer, has influenced his wife’s fashion decisions, but on the latest Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kim said that Kanye had sent her an email informing her that oversized sunglasses that swallow up the face are decidedly, well, “out,” and that tiny, Matrix-esque specs were “in.” (We can confirm that, yes, teensy glasses were indeed a big trend over the summer.) To hammer the point home, West also attached hundreds of pictures of ’90s-inspired tiny sunnies. For what it’s worth, Kardashian did experiment with the trend over the summer, but was more often spotted in a medium-sized pair of Versace sunglasses. It’s a compromise, and it’s what worked for their family. In the meantime, we’re just wondering if West has taken Kardashian on a date night to see Phantom Thread yet?

Nicole Kidman

@NicoleKidman

A funny thing happened last year. Nicole Kidman seemed to realize she had an official Facebook and began posting directly to it. After winning a Golden Globe (and perhaps inspired to use the #TimesUp hashtag on a social media site where people actually use hashtags), Kidman decided to join Instagram. As of right now she only follows five people: husband Keith Urban and her four main Big Little Lies castmates.