via Shutterstock: Anne Hathaway by Anthony Harvey; Priyanka Chopra by Kathy Hutchins; Zendaya by DFree
At the Bulgari jewelry show in Venice, Italy on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, nobody was looking at the accessories. After all, what good are jewels when the girls are the girling?
All eyes were on the parade of party guests, pulling out all the stops in custom designer gowns. I don’t know what it was about this jewelry launch, but the crowd of celeb guests was dressed to the nines. Some of these looks rivaled the Met Gala 2023 looks — which is why they instantly went viral.
As Bulgari brand ambassadors, the trio brought their best — posing for a flurry of now-viral photos while they were at it.
The photos were giving peak Hollywood glamor — no subdued Sofia Richie style in sight. Bold cuts and bright colors were paired with big Bulgari statement pieces. They are the moment. They are the It Girls.
Anne, who is still sending her major fashion renaissance and prepping for a film with Michaela Coel, continued her streak of custom Versace looks. She donned a Donatella Versace design, just like she did at the Karl Lagerfeld-inspired Met Ball. In contrast to the white tweed of two weeks ago, this look was metallic gold and silver with a boho-inspired hood.
Priyanka Chopra — whose latest role is a sexy spy thriller Citadel, starring her and Richard Madden — wore her signature red lip with a deep pinkish, almost-red gown.
In contrast, Zendaya wore a black, sleek look inspired by old Hollywood glamor. Zendaya’s elegant custom Richard Quinn gown made us anticipate the Dune press tour even more — if that’s possible.
Last week, the fashion world was taken by surprise as Law Roach noisily retired from styling. The famed stylist is known for saving the fashion careers of many celebrities, pulling them out of tone-deaf, trendless outfits and into the world of serving absolute looks. If you’ve loved what a celeb is wearing, Law Roach probably styled them.
He’s the wizard who turned Zendaya into Cinderella for the Met Gala (
who also styles her boyfriend, Tom Holland), he’s the maven who re-branded Celine Dion’s style. But the fashion industry is both cutthroat and rarely without drama. Law took to Instagram to announce he was retiring for good, and that the industry had seemingly “won.”
But retirement can mean so many things. Tom Brady has retired from football twice now. So it’s safe to say that people have questions when it comes to Law Roach’s sudden retirement post.
Is Law Roach Retiring?
People love giving credit where credit is due – and as such, stylists have their very own fan bases.
The Guardian likens this phenomenon to Rachel Zoe’s Zoe Bots, which spawned her own spinoff show and fame in her own right, and not just for styling Lindsay Lohan.
This just means Law Roach will be fine if he’s not styling everyone anymore – he’ll be sitting on a million Instagram followers and a networking catalog that most would kill for. He has some of the biggest names in Hollywood behind him like Zendaya herself. In other words, Law Roach probably isn’t going anywhere.
The dramatic, shady Insta post wasn’t Law stepping away from fashion altogether, as he told
Vogue. And it most definitely isn’t due to the fact that Zendaya didn’t save him a front-row seat at Fashion Week this year – or that he asked Emma Stone to give up hers. Law Roach is taking his career into his own hands, far away from “the politics, the lies, and false narratives” that Roach credits for his retirement from celebrity styling.
“I just wanna breathe. I wanna fly. I wanna be happy,” Roach said. “I wanna figure other things out.”
Who Has Law Roach Styled?
His looks have been seen on Anne Hathaway, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ariana Grande, and Bella Hadid. Law has created a multi-million dollar empire styling clients for photoshoots and red carpet appearances, while collaborating with some of the biggest fashion houses in the world.
This year’s Oscars showcased Megan Thee Stallion, Hunter Schafer, Kerry Washington, Eve Jobs, and Hailee Steinfeld, all dressed by Roach. Most of which ranked as the most talked about looks of the evening – so who’s going to style them now?
Law Roach and Zendaya at the Met Gala 2019
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And while each and every look was a slay and a serve in their own respect, no two looks were similar. In fact, each look was praised in their own ways, for different reasons. It’s something Law Roach talks about with The Cut.
“It’s always the narrative of, “Oh, he’s never gonna treat you the way he treats Zendaya. You’re gonna get what she doesn’t want.” And that’s not true, because none of my clients ever look the same. Like, I don’t use edits.
I don’t walk around with suitcases of edits that Zendaya didn’t want and offer ’em to other people. It’s always those narratives, and I’ve lost a bunch of clients that I really care for and really wanted to work with because of the gatekeepers.”
Law even styled Priyanka Chopra-Jonas, who told People that a stylist (seemingly Roach) informed her she wasn’t “sample sized.” While Law Roach told The Cut that this conversation didn’t happen in the way she framed it, it was an example of the false narratives he cited in his retirement.
What’s Next For Law Roach?
More recently, Roach was spotted making his modeling debut for Boss. Law Roach strutted the runway in good company amongst Pamela Anderson, Naomi Campbell, and Precious Lee. He told Vogue,
“I don’t think I have any challenges. I’m a fucking diva! Even if they were to put me on a 10-inch high heel I would be walking that runway. The little gay boy in me—I’m living out a dream! The hair, the makeup, the look they chose for me: it’s literally a dream!”
Anne Hathaway by Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock & Michaela Coel By Fred Duval/Shutterstock
There are some things you know instinctively: when to avoid an empty subway car, when to cut a toxic person right out of your life, and when you’ve decided to adopt a movie as your entire personality before you’ve even seen it.
The latter, I sensed about Tar. I know it about the forthcoming Barbie film. And now, I’m sure about the recently announced film, Mother Mary, starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel.
A24’s upcoming feature film was just announced and they’re not sharing very much. But what they have revealed has us on the edge of our seats yearning for a film that hasn’t even started shooting yet. Picture me – like Nicole Kidman in that AMC ad — staring at the screen in awe, practically drooling. I don’t know what awaits me, but I’m certain it will change me.
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Here’s what we know so far:
The plot: The film has been described as “an epic pop melodrama following a fictional musician (Hathaway) and her relationship with an iconic fashion designer (Coel).” I have no clue what this could mean but I’m already on my knees, begging for more. Will it be a fun, lighthearted blockbuster like the underrated Tracee Ellis Ross x Dakota Johnson feature, The High Note (2020)? Or will it be a tortured portrait of an artist and their muse? Most importantly … will it be sapphic? These are the questions, people!
The screenplay was written by David Lowery, director and frequent A24 collaborator behind The Green Knight and A Ghost Story. He also recently wrote and directed Disney+’s forthcoming Peter Pan & Wendy. His repertoire’s mixed bag makes me curious about the tone of Mother Mary, and what will come of this high-budget experiment.
The music: As an “epic pop melodrama,” it seems obvious that the music of the film will be critical. Which explains why Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX — two of the hottest names in pop music — have been tapped to pen its pop hits. I see Oscar noms for Best Original Song in their future.
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Rightfully so, the internet is freaking out. A cry of “mother!” was heard around the world when this announcement dropped. I mean, the word “mother” is literally in the title.
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I, for one, am so excited to see both Coel and Hathaway return to campy, energetic roles — this after being immersed in dramatic films for the past few years.
Hathaway was most recently in Eileen, a psychological thriller based on Ottessa Mosfegh’s novel of the same title. And then there’s Mother’s Instinct alongside Jessica Chastain and The Idea of You on Amazon.
Coel is best known for her intense drama — I May Destroy You — as well as her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. But I adored Coel singing and dancing in the British indie film Been So Long — so I hope we get to hear her voice in this film, too.
Whatever they give us, I’ll eat it up. Mother Mary is slated to begin filming in Germany this year — and it can’t come soon enough.
Anne Hathaway looks like she hasn’t aged a day since Princess Diaries. We all know her, we all love her. And she’s back and better than ever.
She’s the queen of minding her business. No wonder she’s basking in the unproblematic glow of timeless beauty. But we are particularly obsessed with her recent style upgrade. It’s like The Devil Wears Prada unfolding right before our eyes. And we’ve all been given front-row seats to her latest fashion rebrand.
Our coastal grandmother queen has been absolutely serving looks at every red-carpet event. From strong pops of color to 1960’s-inspired Gucci to the good ole bucket hat, Anne Hathaway proves she only gets better each year.
What I personally admire about her style upgrade is that not every outfit fits a specific trend. In fact, her style has taken on a wide range of aesthetics, spreading across multiple categories. Yet, somehow it all adds up to a cohesive signature style. For red carpets? Bright pink Valentino or a sparkly ensemble. For the airport? A relaxed pantsuit that's equal parts comfy and chic.
Anne wears her new style with confidence, which is partially why everything looks so dang good on her. But it takes a village. So another major factor in this is celeb stylist Erin Walsh. Hathaway was previously styled by Law Roach, who works with big names in the industry like Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, and Halsey. While Law’s clients don’t miss — Zendaya is proof — sometimes it takes a fresh face to mix things up.
Enter Erin Walsh. The pair started working together in 2022, when Hathaway was promoting Wecrashed. Ever since, her bold looks have delivered stunner after stunner. While coastal grandmother vibes and linens were once Anne’s signatures, we've come to anticipate bright colors, bold textures, and flattering cuts as well.
Walsh’s game plan? See what has worked for Anne in the past and rock with it. Vogue reveals,
“She also has the benefit of hindsight. Walsh has been able to see what works for Hathaway over her two-decade career, as well as those times her style might have gone a soupçon too far. A key aspect of the subsequent recalibration? Valentino.”
Another brand contributing to the Anne Hathaway Rebrand To End All Rebrands is Bulgari, which helped her Cannes Film Festival retro style take flight. If there’s one word to encompass Anne’s style: glamorous. But it’s also timeless. Instead of bending to the will of trends, Anne is defining her own.
And if you’re anything like me, you’re due for a little fashion rebrand of your own. I’m bored of my closet…but I also don’t want to alter my style so much that I have to spend thousands on pieces I'll wear only once.
What Anne’s style has taught me is that you have to play into what works for you, and be intuitive enough to realize what’s a fast ending fad and what’s a timeless statement piece.
Here’s how to elevate your style like Anne with timeless statement pieces intermingled with the basics like the plain white tank.
Have Your Tweed Moment
Plaids and tweeds are an essential for the colder months…and the workplace. A cute two piece jacket and skirt set channels your inner Jackie O - and Anne H. Even Olivia Rodrigo, Gen-Z queen, is a fan of the print. It’s worked for decades and will never go out of style.
This set from Abercrombie has a cute A-Line cut like Anne’s red carpet Gucci look that is perfect for brunch, work, and play.
Add Bold Colors
Anne Hathaway, Giancarlo Giammetti, Hwasa, Ariana DeBose, Anna Wintour, Florence Pugh, pose before Valentino fashion show
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A monochromatic moment is always in style. Think Florence Pugh arriving at the Venice Film Festival in a purple short set…or Anne Hathaway’s yellow Valentino floor-dusting jacket with matching shorts. It’s the ultimate Unbothered Queen uniform.
For the more Miss Flo look, this ASOS set gives you the rich purple color that looks exactly like her own.
Accessorize
Anne doesn’t need the outfit to always be the star. Sometimes, the star of the show is a cute bucket hat or cat-eye sunglasses. And while I certainly can’t afford Gucci, Cartier, and Louis Vuitton accessories, I have found my own vices.
The Quay Click Bait sunnies are your ticket to instant 1960’s style and are super flattering. As for a bucket hat, I recommend the Lululemon Both Ways in the Raw Linen shade to match any of your casual outfits.
Choose Slouchy
Anne Hathaway at the Cannes Film Festival
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Our Queen of Genovia has been opting for a slouchy look- whether that be her airport suit or a pair of slouchy jeans, it’s comfort over everything. The Free People Old West Slouchy Jeans are your new best friend.
The suit of your dreams is accessible with Abercrombie’s Tailored Pants and Cropped Blazer blend menswear inspired tailored suits with pajama quality comfort.
After Anne's Cannes lookbook, I’m ready to make the necessary changes to my wardrobe for an elevated look…and I can’t wait to see what Anne and Erin Walsh have up their sleeves next.
Do you remember the first time a sad scene in a movie left you sobbing? Or the first time a scary movie kept you up all night?
When you're a kid, your mind is still so malleable, and you haven't built up that callous that keeps movies at a distance. You might even wish — while you're watching the latest Conjuring movie — that you could get back to that credulous mindset that makes the horrors onscreen come alive in the dark corners of the room.
It's a bit sad to think that a movie will never again leave its impact on you the way movies did when you were a kid. On the other hand, knowing how impressionable and sensitive kids are, it's a bit weird to look back at some of our favorite kids' movies and recall some of the terrifying scenes that the creators slipped in there, to be permanently imprinted on our brains.
And what's even crazier is to look back at some of those scenes as an adult and confirm that it was not just about being an overly-sensitive kid. These movies, ostensibly made to entertain children, for some reason included some of the most disturbing scenes in cinematic history.
Okay, so the whole Toy Story series clearly deserves its own article about childhood trauma, but it's hardly alone. With that in mind, it's just worth calling out these nine movies in particular for taking up permanent real estate in the nightmare-center of our brains.
The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
If any movie is a spiritual precursor to the quiet, existential horror that occasionally bubbles to the surface in Toy Story movies, it's the Brave Little Toaster. The epic tale of abandoned appliances seeking out their beloved owner, Rob, Toaster and crew encounter harrowing dangers and malicious forces on their journey, all while struggling to come to terms with encroaching obsolescence.
It's difficult to pick any one scene as the source of the deep-seated terror that The Brave Little Toaster left in our childhood brains, because the whole film is honestly insane. There's the lightning storm, the waterfall, the wilting flower.
It's an incredibly dark story, with a patina of cheerful animation and musical numbers allowing it to masquerade as a kids' movie. But the image from Brave Little Toaster that is seared into our brains is the death of the air conditioner right at the beginning.
Voiced by the late Phil Hartman, doing his best Jack Nicholson, the air conditioner is a smug cynic looking down on the others. That is, until Toaster points out that he — being stuck in the wall — is just jealous of them.
At that point the air conditioner quickly devolves into a paranoid existential crisis. He gets himself more and more worked up until he overloads his circuits and is left a dead, smoldering heap — all while the others look on in horror.
The Neverending Story (1984)
The Neverending Story is a tale of Bastian, a young boy who is transported, through the power of reading, into a world of magic, dragons, gnomes, and stone giants. It's charming and fun, and generally has just the right touch of darkness and danger to give the whole adventure real stakes. Except for one scene that takes that darkness way too far...
Atreyu — the hero of the story that Bastian is reading — is leading his horse Artax through the Swamp of Sadness. It's explained that anyone who is overcome by the sadness of the place will be swallowed by the swamp. What follows is no less upsetting for the fact that it's predictable.
Artax begins to sink into the swamp's mud. Atreyu screams and cries as his beloved horse sinks deeper, pleading with Artax to keep moving and not to be sad, but by this point the sadness is slowly taking them both. It's a powerful metaphor for the crushing, sucking depths of despair that unchecked depression can lead to, and it never really gets any easier to watch...so why the hell is it in a children's movie?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Wacky cartoon violence has, for some reason, always been treated as okay for kids to watch. If you drop an anvil on a character's head and they walk away from it — with the addition of some circling birds and a weird hairless lump rising from the impact — none of the horror of violence seems to count.
But that logic gets a bit messy when you mix cartoons with the real world — as in the 1988 classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit. And nowhere is that mess more evident than in the death of Chistopher Lloyd's Judge Doom.
A real human actor is very vividly and painfully being crushed flat by a very real steam roller. And only after he's smushed into a pancake is his secret identity as a deranged cartoon revealed.
The steam roller scene along with the wild cartoon eyes, and the way he screams and smokes as he is subsequently dissolved in his specially formulated "toon acid" will haunt us to our graves.
The Witches (1990)
Another classic villain reveal is the witches' convention scene of 1990's The Witches, based on the novel by Roald Dahl. While the story was recently retold with Anne Hathaway, it's hard to imagine any performer bringing the Grand High Witch to life like Anjelica Huston — particularly when she peels off her face to reveal her glistening, warped, and scabrous true form.
It's a practical that outdoes any CGI and continues to be disturbing more than 30 years later. And yet it's outdone in the climactic scene when she and the other witches are subjected to their own magic, turned into mice through a truly hideous and disturbing transformation process.
But of course a movie about witches has to have some scary scenes. That's what witches are all about. It's not like it was a story about something cute like, for instance, rabbits...
Watership Down (1978)
Watership Down was a 1978 animated adaptation of the classic novel by Richard Adams, and it tells the story of a group of rabbits displaced by industrialization, searching for a new home in the English countryside. The movie, like the novel, faithfully depicts the terror of being a small prey animal beset by predators, competing with other rabbits, and threatened by humans and their machines. It also adds supernatural premonitions and death cults because...kids' stuff?
While the violence and death is a bit heavy in the novel, the 1978 adaptation took things to the next level with its graphic animation of bloody, gruesome battles. Why are we still afraid of General Woundwort?!
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
It might seem strange that anyone would ever try to convert Victor Hugo's 19th century classic, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, into a cartoon for kids. But don't worry, while the 1996 film is extremely Disneyfied (characters have to survive if you're going to make an awful straight-to-video sequel), it still captures the alienation and cruelty that made the book such a beloved children's story harrowing tale of tragedy.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the Festival of Fools, when the crowd turns against Quasimodo, pelting him with eggs and rotten produce, and tying him down with ropes so he's helpless to escape their attacks. You're never too young to learn that the world hates ugly people...
Pinocchio (1940)
Pinocchio is a morality tale about a puppet who comes to life, has a cricket in a top hat for a conscience, gets kidnapped by a fox and swallowed by a whale, and has a nose that grows when he lies. It's a really weird story. Still, if you thought that the creepiness of being an old man's wood carving that comes to life would be enough body horror for one kids movie, you were wrong.
How about when Pinocchio and Lampwick go off on their own to drink beer and play pool and smoke cigars on a secluded island? Does that seem like a weird plot point for a kids' movie? Don't worry, Pinocchio learns that all this stuff is bad when his friend gradually transforms into a donkey while clawing at Pinocchio and crying out for his mother...
Cool stuff.
Little Monsters (1989)
Little Monsters is a bit more obscure than the other items on this list, unless you frequent the nightmares of anyone who saw it as child — in which case, you're thoroughly familiar. It's an unapologetic attempt to capitalize on the success of Tim Burton's Beetlejuice — but with a touch of Labyrinth, a prescient dose of Monsters Inc., and instead of Michael Keaton's charm, Howie Mandel's...enthusiasm.
Basically, there's a secret world of monsters that live under your bed and come out at night to terrorize children. Brian Stevenson (Fred Savage) befriends one of the monsters, and hijinks ensue — until Boy (Frank Whaley) catches wind of what's going on and kidnaps Brian's brother Eric (Ben Savage).
In a world of monsters, Boy looks almost normal — if a bit corpselike. But his uncanny human disguise — possibly stitched from someone else's skin... — makes his dispassionate sadism all the more creepy, and his weird neckless henchman Snik isn't much better.
In an otherwise silly movie, Boy's role as Little Monster's antagonist is unforgettably disturbing.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
No list of movie-induced childhood trauma would be complete without Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Another roald Dahl adaptation, the surreal horror is once again on tap.
Of course there's the casual way that the titular candy magnate handles it as the children on his factory tour are shrunk down, blown up like balloons, sucked into tubes that lead to boilers and dropped down chutes to furnaces. Wonka seems to think they deserve their fates, because they're gluttonous, greedy, disrespectful, or watch too much TV. And we're apparently expected to agree.
But while Wonka's pathological calm in these circumstances — plus that creep Slugworth and uncertainty about the labor rights of Oompa Loompas — should be disturbing enough, it's when Wonka's calm cracks that the movie becomes truly frightening. It's not clear why it was necessary for a simple boat ride to become a siezure-inducing acid-flashback, but that's what happens while a wild-eyed Gene Wilder puts on a convincing show of a man rapidly losing his grip on sanity.
This one scene takes up about two minutes in the middle of a children's movie, and manages to be scarier than just about any horror movie.
So these nine movies left indelible scars on our psyche's during a pivotal stage of development. They should basically be banned, right?
Hell, no. They're still classics, and we look forward to traumatizing our own kids with these one day...maybe when they're like, 19.
Even though I was born in Seoul, South Korea, I don't consider myself to be a "Seoul girl." What is a "Seoul girl," you ask? I dunno, ask Rebel Wilson.
According to Deadline, Seoul Girls is the upcoming K-Pop comedy written and produced by the Pitch Perfect and Cats star. Lionsgate has acquired the rights to the film, which will feature "a Korean American high school girl and her friends who enter a worldwide talent competition to be the opening act for the world's biggest K-pop boy band. With help from an ex-member of a British girl group and a former K-pop trainee, the Seoul Girls find their voices on the world's biggest stage." Wilson will play a role in the film, most likely the British ex-pop star.
The script for this unholy mash-up of Pitch Perfect and Camp Rock was reported to be "revised" by Billions screenwriter Young Il Kim, who joked about his involvement on Twitter: "This Kpop project is gonna get me at least a 10% discount in K-town restaurants!"
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Sadly, a street cred discount and a "nice try but no" might be all he gets, judging by Asian Twitter's responses. Criticism ranged from disbelief at the kitschy title ("'Seoul Sisters' was right there!" wrote one user) to the flimsy plot (K-Pop aficionados pointed out that K-Pop performances don't usually include opening acts).
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Granted, details about the film are scarce, but what information we have doesn't bode well, considering the mind-boggling history of Hollywood white-washing, exoticizing, and fetishizing Asian characters. One user posted, "If this is all about stereotypes, please @RebelWilson, no. I love you and I don't want you to be dragged for being misinformed and reinforcing stereotypes, please. I love you, don't." Others commented on the demoralizing pattern of Hollywood "encroaching on Korean culture once they realize it's profitable."
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Setting aside jokes about Scarlett Johansson or Emma Stone being perfect for the role, we're somewhat confident that the studio wouldn't be dumb enough to cast a non-Asian for any of the leading roles. Yes, we know that a studio exec once suggested Julia Roberts play Harriet Tubman, but… that was in 1994. Now we live in a post-Crazy Rich Asians world; the celebration of which made it seem like American media was about to be flooded with more Asian and Asian-American representation. (Nevermind that the only Asian screenwriter had to quit the sequel because she was offered one fraction of her white co-writer's salary). Now we collectively mock Johannsson playing a character originally named Motoko Kusanagi because the tide has turned against Hollywood white-washing the eastern sh*t out of Asian characters—right?
Attached to produce Seoul Girls are some of the least-Asian producers in the business: Meredith Wieck and Scott O'Brien from Lionsgate and Alison Owen and Debra Hayward from Monumental (the culprit behind the whole live-action Cats nightmare). At least there's hope that Seoul Girls will feature (seriously, at the very least) an all-Asian cast. After all, it's surely not possible that a fundamentally, literally Korean storyline would ever feature non-Korean actors...right?
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