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Reese Witherspoon Kept Her Original Legally Blonde Costumes. None Made It to the Prequel Series, Elle—Here’s Why

Reese Witherspoon Kept Her Original Legally Blonde Costumes. None Made It to the Prequel Series, Elle—Here’s Why

Published by Sam Flores

The mere idea of relocating Elle Woods, the most legal—and most California—of blondes, seems and is preposterous. And yet that is the exact premise of the Legally Blonde prequel series, Elle, which premiered on Amazon Prime Video today. The show is as fun and bubbly as one would anticipate and hope it to be, but it is its fashion that takes the spotlight alongside its star, Lexi Minetree, who settles nicely into Reese Witherspoon’s shoes. The costumes, which range from vintage Chanel to custom-made pieces and contemporary fashion, were designed by Sara Byblow, whose name you will certainly hear more following her work on Elle. Byblow, who first worked with Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine production company while doing the costumes for Surface, partnered with original Legally Blonde costumer Sophie De Rakoff for the first episodes of the season. “It felt like a passing of the torch,” Byblow says as we speak days before the release of the show. As charming as Byblow’s architecture of young Elle Woods’s style is, with its junior-prep silhouettes and many shades …

Can Kylie Jenner Really Make AI Glasses Cool?

Can Kylie Jenner Really Make AI Glasses Cool?

Published by Sam Flores

The outside of Terminal Warehouse, the office space on the west side of Manhattan, looked like a scene out of New York Fashion Week last night. Meta had called upon the fashion set to gather for the reveal of its latest line of Meta Glasses, the AI lenses the Facebook and Instagram parent company debuted with Ray-Ban in 2021. They’ve come a long way since: This lineup, still developed with EssilorLuxottica, the owner of Ray-Ban, offers a wider range of styles and even a pair codesigned by Kylie Jenner. Since the first launch, Meta has been hard at work in making AI glasses a thing. There was the first generation, Ray-Ban Stories, launched in 2021. Then a second launch in 2023, the Ray-Ban Meta, with a better camera resolution. Last year, at Meta Connect in Menlo Park, California, Mark Zuckerberg announced the next generation of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, plus an Oakley Meta pair made for running, which he wear-tested himself with Diplo, and the all-new Meta Ray-Ban Display, its first AI glasses with an integrated …

Jeremy Strong, A Quasi-Prince, 28 Bottles of Gin, and Hundreds of Yachts: Inside Loro Piana’s Annual Regatta in Saint-Tropez

Jeremy Strong, A Quasi-Prince, 28 Bottles of Gin, and Hundreds of Yachts: Inside Loro Piana’s Annual Regatta in Saint-Tropez

Published by Sam Flores

The following morning, I admittedly paid less attention to the regatta because I was distracted by a boat nearby. Sailing in front of me were Jeremy Strong, the only official Loro Piana ambassador—though he is clearly more part of the clan than any other pay-for-play celebrity—and a quasi-prince, Pierre Casiraghi, the younger son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover, and her late second husband, Stefano Casiraghi. Later, over a poolside lunch, Strong waxed poetic about the feeling of wearing Loro Piana and learning about sailing from Casiraghi, a prolific sailboat racer. “I basically just spent the whole time grilling him about sailing and hearing some of his stories,” Strong said of his day out at sea with the aristocrat, who, he tells me, won the Admiral Cup last year with his yacht club. Strong then proceeded to make a compelling point about Loro Piana’s commitment to excellence. “Pierre is one of the most renowned sailors in the world, and so to be out on the water learning from him,” the actor said, “and then last night …

The Search for Mark Zuckerberg’s Mystery Stylist

The Search for Mark Zuckerberg’s Mystery Stylist

Published by Sam Flores

Jeremy Strong is very good at playing devious men with very deep pockets. First came his star-making role as Kendall Roy in Succession, where he played a troubled heir apparent to a Rupert Murdoch–esque patriarch. Then came his turn in The Apprentice as Roy Cohn, mentor and lawyer to Donald Trump. Later this year, he will take on Mark Zuckerberg himself in The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to David Fincher’s acclaimed The Social Network. “It was a great, challenging role for me,” Strong says as we sit poolside at a Loro Piana event in Saint-Tropez. He won’t say much of the film—his third with Sorkin—other than this, and that he thinks “it’s a movie that is going to touch the third rail of a lot of things.” In reaction to the trailer, audiences and online armchair critics seemed to agree that Strong, a famed character actor, had nailed down one particular quality of Mark Zuckerberg’s: his voice. Strong as a curly-haired blond is less convincing at first sight—but the fact that viewers are able …

The Mastermind Behind Those Viral Dua Lipa AI Wedding Photos

The Mastermind Behind Those Viral Dua Lipa AI Wedding Photos

Published by Sam Flores

“I’ve always believed that a meme can sometimes say more about contemporary culture than a thousand-word article,” says Rick Dick, the daring meme-maker who recently went viral for his AI-generated images of Dua Lipa’s wedding. Jacob Elordi as a Chanel mermaid. Pope Leo XIV clad in Schiaparelli haute couture. Leonardo DiCaprio as a Victoria’s Secret angel, wings included. The daring, enigmatic meme-maker Rick Dick, whose first name is Riccardo (he does not share his last name), has been entertaining the fashion corners of the internet since he started posting on Instagram in 2017. Back then, he would make collages and inventive images in Photoshop that were niche in their humor but spoke to the fashion community—say, Bella and Gigi Hadid wearing Zaha Hadid buildings as skirts. In 2022, he started investigating the capabilities of AI, and the visuals became bolder—King Charles III wearing Barbie pink, and a zombie version of the late Karl Lagerfeld, both at the Met Gala. His following and reach steadily grew, but he was still somewhat of an insider’s secret. And …

There Can Be No Winners in the Patagonia v. Pattie Gonia Debacle

There Can Be No Winners in the Patagonia v. Pattie Gonia Debacle

Published by Sam Flores

Now that Pattie Gonia has taken to the jury of the people, meaning the internet, she’s mobilized troops of progressive online sleuths who are siding with her (“keep the pressure on,” she asks her followers in a comment), largely because of a general anticorportation sentiment. (A representative for Pattie Gonia declined to comment for this story.) On the other hand, there has been a growing audience on TikTok and X who are skeptical of Pattie Gonia’s arguments and argue that her filing for a trademark would infringe on Patagonia’s. These kinds of posts and comments have been met with others calling anyone “defending corporations” all sorts of names, including but not limited to “bootlicker.” Alas, who is in the right is not to be determined by an online jury. On Saturday, Pattie Gonia posted another video on Instagram saying that she had been “blindsided” by the suit. She claimed Patagonia lied by suggesting it had reached out prior to the suit for a conversation, yet she appeared to be seeking some sort of resolution. (In …

The Mango Murder Mystery Investigation Is Gripping Spain—and the Fashion World

The Mango Murder Mystery Investigation Is Gripping Spain—and the Fashion World

Published by Sam Flores

Isak Andic, the founder of Spanish fashion giant Mango, was hiking in Montserrat, a touristy hot-spot mountain range in Catalonia, Spain, when he fell off a 300-foot cliff to his death in December 2024. On the hike, Andic was only accompanied by his son, Jonathan Andic, with whom he allegedly had a rocky relationship. Last Tuesday, May 19, Jonathan was arrested in Barcelona as a suspect in the ongoing investigation for the alleged murder of his father. The Mango scion has posted bail for 1 million euros ($1.2 million USD), and this Tuesday, he said in a letter sent to staff—published in full by La Nacion—that he would temporarily step down from his duties at the brand. Broadly, the media has framed the case as a dramatic soap plot: an ambitious, greedy son willing to do the unimaginable to protect his would-be fortune. But is this tale too salacious to be true? Mango is one of Spain’s most globally prominent fashion brands in the affordable-to-mid-range space, arguably, second only to Zara. Isak and his brother …

The Sexual Assault Lawsuit Against Celebrated Designer Riccardo Tisci May Involve a Pop Star

The Sexual Assault Lawsuit Against Celebrated Designer Riccardo Tisci May Involve a Pop Star

Published by Sam Flores

Almost exactly a year ago, on April 30, 2025, The Independent first reported that famed fashion designer Riccardo Tisci, most known for his time spent helming Givenchy and Burberry and for designing Met Gala gowns for Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian, was accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a man in New York in June 2024. Now, nearly two years after the alleged assault, the Italian singer Alessandro Mahmoud, known by his stage name Mahmood, has been requested to give testimony, per court filings obtained by reporter Louis Pisano and shared on X. The alleged victim, Patrick Cooper, claimed in the original suit last year that he believed he had been drugged by Tisci with a drink while at a restaurant in East Harlem, after which he awoke at the designer’s residence downtown, naked and disoriented, with no recollection of getting there. Cooper alleges that he met Tisci through a mutual friend, Michael Alexander, and that the designer, now 51, was accompanied by another friend, Mahmoud. Cooper told The Independent that when he woke up, Tisci …

Should We Be Talking About Celebrities’ Bodies?

Should We Be Talking About Celebrities’ Bodies?

Published by Sam Flores

It’s strict over at Cannes! The film festival is known for its famous dress code: black-tie only for red-carpet gala screenings, meaning evening gowns for women and tuxedos for men. Last year, the conversation was all about how Cannes introduced bans on both “naked dresses,” which we can probably thank Bella Hadid for after she wore a suggestion of a sheath by Saint Laurent on the red carpet back in 2024, and overly voluminous gowns for simple logistics: There are a lot of steps! This year, the ban on naked dresses and too-big frocks remains, and attendees are now asked to wear “elegant shoes” rather than heels. Yet dress codes are not the topic du jour. The talk surrounding red carpets this year is a far thornier one: the state of celebrity bodies. Namely, everyone’s too thin. This isn’t news—the big, ongoing GLP-1 wave hit Hollywood early—but, if at first the chatter was about who was taking “the stab” and who wasn’t, nowadays it’s about the size of everyone’s waist and how visible their sternums …

Stylist Karla Welch Doesn’t Read Best-Dressed Lists Anymore

Stylist Karla Welch Doesn’t Read Best-Dressed Lists Anymore

Published by Sam Flores

Karla Welch was only supposed to style two people for the 2026 Met Gala. She ended up with six: Sarah Paulson, Tessa Thompson, Olivia Wilde, Greta Gerwig, Karlie Kloss, and Misty Copeland. Welch is the fashion equivalent to a Swiss Army knife. Known as a prolific celebrity stylist, she has done a bit of everything, be that styling Kamala Harris while she campaigned alongside Joe Biden and during the better part of her vice presidency; founding the Period Company, a period underwear brand; and starting an app, Wishi, a personal-styling service that connects users with experts for wardrobe advice and shopping recommendations. Welch is also behind some of today’s best-dressed women: Paulson, Thompson, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Renate Reinsve. Just over one week before this year’s Met Gala, Welch posted a TikTok—she’s an enthusiastic social media user—in which she said she’d just been informed that one of her A-list clients was attending the festivities. How does one pull off the presumably gargantuan task of putting together a Met-worthy look in a week? I called Welch …