The girls are fightinggg
After Elon Musk’s departure from the Trump administration last week, Musk and Trump took to their own social media platforms to attack each other as the world got to witness the spectacular falling out. While Elon claimed that Trump won the elections because of him and confirmed that Trump’s name appears in the Epstein files of pedophiles, Trump retaliated by announcing that he would revoke Musk’s government subsidies and contracts. Here are the internet’s best reactions to the public break-up.
Runway rundown
The first-ever Birkin bag made by Hermes for its namesake, Jane Birkin, is up for auction by Sotheby’s in Paris! Before it became the ultimate luxury bag, the original was born out of necessity, as Jane complained to the head of Hermes in a chance encounter on a flight that she didn’t have a bag that could fit all her daily essentials.
Jonathan Anderson has been appointed the new creative director at Dior, for their women’s, men’s and haute couture collections. Anderson will go from designing 9 collections per year at Loewe to 10 collections per year at Dior, including 2 haute couture collections, a first for him. Including his own collections at JW Anderson and their collab with Uniqlo, Jonathan Anderson will be designing 18 collections per year, meaning he is set to become the industry’s most prolific, multi-tasking designer since Karl Lagerfeld.
The Paris Haute Couture Week schedule is here!
Stars and stuff
Magnus Carlsen has won the Norway Chess tournament for the 7th time, but the video going viral is from round 6 when reigning World Chess Champion Gukesh Dommaraju beat a visibly dejected Carlsen, who slammed the table in frustration.
After announcing the purchase of her masters, Taylor Swift has been spotted out and about with Dakota Johnson (who has allegedly broken up with Chris Martin), Selena Gomez, and at a wedding with Travis Kelce, as both versions of her song Love Story have surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify in the same week!
Singer-Actress Hailee Steinfeld got married to NFL player Josh Allen.
Huda Kattan has regained full ownership of her brand, Huda Beauty.
After a Tiktok user posted a video asking Kylie Jenner for details of her plastic surgery so she could get the same procedure done, Jenner left a comment with exact particulars of her breast augmentation, down to the name of the doctor who did it.
Meghan Markle, sorry, Meghan Sussex posted a throwback video of herself and husband Harry, dancing to induce labour, before the birth of her daughter Lili.
Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood have cleared the air in a recent interview. The two are not feuding, but the way they talk about each other is now fuelling affair rumours.
Miley Cyrus has revealed that she is now allowed to sing Hannah Montana songs, after being inducted as a Disney legend.
Coming soonish
The trailer for the Kiss of a Spider Woman is here, starring Jennifer Lopez. As I pointed out in a previous issue, the movie and JLo’s performance were all the rage at the Sundance Film Festival, so this is one to watch out for.
The trailer for Wicked 2 is here, and yes, the bad lighting and cinematography allegations persist for the sequel too…
The trailer for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell.
Date announcement for the 3rd Knives Out movie, Wake Up, Dead Man, is here!
Teaser for the highly anticipated Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac, and the monster played by Jacob Elordi.
A new Fantastic Four trailer is here, revealing Franklin Richards, the son of Sue and Reed Richards! And IRL, Vanessa Kirby, who plays Sue, is also pregnant!
A24’s romcom, Materialists’ latest marketing move with the New York Stock Exchange, urges men to feed their details into a website (menofny.com), which then shows them how in-demand they are in the dating market!
Binge brief
Nobody Wants This Season 2 comes out on October 23rd!
After only 2 seasons of Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa’s stint as the Doctor has come to an end. The finale showed his regeneration and revealed Billie Piper to be the 16th Doctor.
The final season of Stranger Things has been split into a three-part release schedule. Vol. 1 will be 4 episodes, Vol. 2 will be 3 episodes and Vol. 3 will be the final episode of the series. Volume 1 - November 26, Volume 2 - December 25, and Volume 3 - December 31.
For the release of the Phineas and Ferb reboot on Disney+, the show held an event for the fans, where Ashley Tisdale and Olivia Olson performed the song, Busted, live for the first time!
New noise
Sabrina Carpenter’s new song, Manchild is out now! Very reminiscent of her Short n’ Sweet album, while it did hit #1 on the charts, the general opinion is that it’s not at the level to become the song of the summer, like Espresso last year, sadly.
Ed Sheeran's new song Sapphire is here, made during his trip to India earlier this year.
Singers Finneas and Ashe have formed a band called ‘The Favors’. Their debut single, The Little Mess You Made, from their 70s-inspired album ‘The Dream’, is out now.
Petition for you to send the Materialists marketing website to the Universal India team and ask them to let me do such fun stuff 😭😭😭