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On Friday night, Olivia Rodrigo left Electric Lady Studio in New York City wearing a vintage inspired pop punk look reminiscent of a Y2K Avril Lavigne. Rodrigo has performed with Lavigne before and clearly loves the era’s fashion. The 19-year-old was wearing a bedazzled black t-shirt with cap sleeves over a pleated red plaid mini

If you could spot Earth from the galactic retro ride pictured on Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia album cover, and zoomed through space toward Europe, then south to Croatia, and further to the heart of the Balkans, there, in Pristina, Kosovo, on a sweet summer night in August, you would find Dua Lipa stepping out onto

When Taylor Swift first began dating actor Joe Alwyn more than four years ago, it was almost immediately clear the couple had come to an agreement: Their relationship would be an intimate but private one, and they’d be a united front in protecting that privacy. Gone were the paparazzi photo ops of Swift’s days with

There’s a prickly kind of thrill to having coffee with someone who is teetering between anonymity and fame—something about the mix of caffeine and clairvoyance makes even the most jaded culture journalist remember why she started doing this in the first place. I can tell the waiter at this hip TriBeCa hotel café knows the

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck took off for Italy following their three-day Georgia wedding, and photos have emerged of them there making out (of course) and shopping for home goods. Decio Immagine Casa shared a photo of Affleck and Lopez at their store yesterday, captioning it “unexpected customers” in Italian. Lopez appears, wearing a yellow

Olivia Wilde was candid in her Variety cover interview about being served custody papers by her ex Jason Sudeikis while on stage doing her CinemaCon presentation for Don’t Worry Darling, her choice to keep her relationship with Harry Styles private, and the way tabloids have treated her. With the CinemaCon incident, Wilde was explicit about

Each year offers a handful of surprising celebrity couples to analyze, 2021’s first arrived early with the new romance of Olivia Wilde, 36, and Harry Styles, 26. They met while she was directing him in the upcoming film Don’t Worry Darling. Multiple outlets reported that the celebs were an item after they held hands at

In a new monthly column for ELLE, R. Eric Thomas sounds off on all things culture. Find out what to read, watch, listen to, and exhaustively talk about right here. I can’t wait to tell my grandkids about how we had to wait all summer for new TV. I don’t have grandkids, or kids, so

One bride, one design house, three wedding dresses: Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Lauren confirmed today the rumors that she did indeed wear the brand to her Georgia wedding to Ben Affleck. Lopez shared on her On the JLo newsletter that she didn’t wear just one couture dress, but multiple from Ralph Lauren. Now, Ralph Lauren

The first big fruits of Meghan Markle’s Spotify deal have come out today. The Duchess of Sussex’s Archetypes podcast launched this morning, with her first episode featuring her and longtime friend Serena Williams breaking down the word “ambition” and how people’s negative portrayal of ambitious women have affected their own lives. The two also discussed

Megan Fox has started a new chapter in her dating life. Months after separating from her husband of more than a decade Brian Austin Green, the actress has found new love with musician/actor Machine Gun Kelly (real name: Colson Baker). After meeting on a movie set earlier in 2021, they’re now engaged over a year

Nearly three years after Knives Out was originally released in late 2019, we’re finally going to get a sequel: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. That means we’re due for more quippy dialogue, zany characters, and another thrilling mystery very soon, but not soon enough. The complete plot of Glass Onion is not yet clear,

Since Prince George started school in 2017, Prince William and Kate Middleton have based themselves in London at Kensington Palace, with their children attending St Thomas’s School in Battersea. But today they have announced Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis are starting at Lambrook School in Berkshire in September as the family make Windsor

To hear even snippets of Game of Thrones’ beloved theme played once again is an event both stirring and terrifying. There is a chance, however slim, that this story will re-capture the power felt, on a borderline religious level, by millions of fans from 2011 to 2019 (and much longer, through George R. R. Martin’s

This weekend, Priyanka Chopra posted both to her Instagram timeline and to her Stories with photos of her baby girl Malti Marie, much to the delight of her followers. Chopra and her husband Nick Jonas announced the birth of their daughter via surrogacy in January of this year, saying, “We are overjoyed to confirm that

Earlier this month, Emma Watson was photographed walking hand-in-hand through Venice, Italy, with Brandon Green, the son of fashion tycoon Sir Philip Green. The photos are being seen as confirmation of the rumors that Watson and Brandon are in a relationship. In the pictures, Watson was wearing a red and white sundress and black sandals.

Ahead of the 2022 Met Gala, Olivia Rodrigo sparked dating rumors again when the singer was seen out in New York City with 25-year-old DJ Zack Bia. A source told E! that the two have been spending time together and having “a lot of fun.” “Zack [feels] that Olivia is really down to earth and

On Friday, Olivia Rodrigo headed to Bowery Ballroom in New York City for a show wearing a short black satin dress with lace detail forming the cups of her bust along the low cut neckline. The short skirt ended high above the knee, showing off her long legs, and she paired the outfit with chunky

One month after Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck spontaneously tied the knot in Las Vegas, the couple is having a much bigger, three-day wedding celebration at Affleck’s Georgia estate this weekend. People, E!, and Page Six have details about Lopez and Affleck’s nuptial plans, while paparazzi got a photograph of Lopez out with Affleck in

When Gugu Mbatha-Raw first received the script for Surface, she was in Atlanta, filming the first season of Loki—about to become an enormous hit for the still-building Disney+ platform. It was the late summer of 2020, and she was content, if not exactly challenged, in the iron-pressed shirt collar and necktie of Ravonna Renslayer. She

I’m not at all ashamed to admit that Mamma Mia was one of my favorite movies in high school. The beach parties. The crystal clear water. That romantic island energy. It was all so dreamy. Once it became safe to travel again, there was only one place I wanted to be: on a beach in

Selena Gomez, who’s been publicly single for years, herself knows and has addressed how her just being photographed with a costar or guy friend is enough to stir up dating rumors. In the last month, it’s happened twice to her, with some outlets speculating she may be dating Andrea Iervolino due to photos of them

After years of anticipation, the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon will finally premiere on Sunday, possibly ushering in a new reign for HBO’s hit fantasy franchise over the realm of television. Based on George R. R. Martin’s tome Fire & Blood, the spin-off focuses on House Targaryen roughly 200 years before

Way back in 2009, major Twilight fan Taylor Swift was interested in appearing in the Hollywood-blockbuster series—and was turned down. Twilight: New Moon director Chris Weitz spoke on the podcast The Twilight Effect with Ashley Greene and Melanie Howe this week about why he couldn’t accept Swift’s agent’s request to have her do a cameo