Modern Beauty Trends: In: Tom Hanks Finding His Perfect Role

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

In: Tom Hanks Finding His Perfect Role | Out: Trends Ending

Time is up on Woody Allen, but Juicy Couture is getting a second chance.
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“Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.” — Vanessa Redgrave

Time’s Up

Woody Allen

Well, it seems time is literally up on Woody Allen’s career. His adopted daughter Dylan Farrow has been increasingly public about her claims that the director sexually abused her as child and calling out celebrities who continue to work with him. Former collaborators, including Greta Gerwig, have expressed their regret for doing so. Others, like Rebecca Hall, Timothée Chalamet, and Selena Gomez, have donated their salaries from Allen’s films to the Time’s Up movement. Now comes news that his next film, A Rainy Day in New York (starring Gomez and Chalamet), may not even get a proper release and could just be dumped straight to VOD quietly. There’s also talk that Allen is now having a hard time casting his next project. Even Kate Winslet, who awkwardly went on promoting her recent Allen film Wonder Wheel while seemingly ignoring the scandal, now says she has “bitter regrets” about working with certain men—even if she didn’t mention Allen by name. Though Allen still has a few prominent defenders in his corner (including Alec Baldwin and longtime collaborator Diane Keaton), it seems like Hollywood at large is ready to wash their hands of him.

Juicy Couture? In 2018? Apparently!

The Idea That Sometimes a Trend Just Dies and Never Comes Back

A good brand is like a cockroach. Or Cher. You just can’t kill it. While Juicy Couture may be synonymous with a certain subset of George W. Bush-era glamour, the brand is not only still kicking, but about to attempt a major comeback. Indeed, next month Juicy Couture will show at New York Fashion Week for the first time ever. Now under different ownership and with celebrity stylist Jamie Mizrahi, a favorite among It Girls like Suki Waterhouse, Sasha Lane, and Riley Keough, at the creative helm, the brand has launched Juicy Couture Black Label. Yes, it will include those tracksuits, but also a total wardrobe of contemporary clothing. “Juicy Couture is synonymous with the tracksuit, an association that is a great source of pride for us,” Mizrahi told Business of Fashion. “That said, as a global brand it’s important that consumers know we offer so much more.” After being brought back into the fashion fold last year when the brand collaborated on an avant garde take on one of its tracksuits for Vetements Haute Couture Fall 2017 (Rihanna, of course, was a fan), Juicy is now ready to stage its solo comeback to fashion relevance.

Tom Hanks’s Perfect Role

Crowdsourced Casting

When news broke yesterday that Tom Hanks would play legendary children’s television host Mister Rogers in an upcoming biopic, we were surprised that the casting was not the result of some sort of crowdsourced Facebook campaign. How have we as a society not demanded this before? Turns out, however, at least a few people in Hollywood earn their pay and are good at giving us what we didn’t even know we wanted. Hanks, America’s dad, will star as Rogers, your childhood televised neighbor, in a biopic based loosely on the host’s friendship with journalist Tom Junod. About 20 years ago, Junod profiled Rogers for a magazine with an extremely skeptical eye. By the end, the two had struck up a friendship and Junod “learns a thing or two about kindness and acceptance from the teachings of Mister Rogers.” Marielle Heller, most recently of Diary of a Teenage Girl, will direct. Unfortunately, Hollywood did not announce that either Julianne Moore or Cate Blanchett will play Shari Lewis of Lamb Chop fame, but here’s hoping. Maybe someone can start a Facebook campaign or something.

Lorde

@LordeMusic

Lorde went home empty-handed at the Grammys and wasn’t even offered a chance to give a solo performance (a fact she later subtweeted), but she still looked like she had a great time.