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How Much Money Has Euphoria’s Nate Jacobs Spent on Bottega Veneta?

How Much Money Has Euphoria’s Nate Jacobs Spent on Bottega Veneta?

Published by Jenni Sidey

At the end of the third episode of Euphoria season three, we were left peeking out from behind spread fingers at a bunch of big questions. What does the feds catching up with Rue mean for her nascent strip-club management (and drug- and gun-running) career? Are Alamo and Laurie about to be in open war over a dead parrot? And, most importantly, how much money has Nate Jacobs spent on Bottega Veneta? Many have noted that Jacob Elordi’s Nate has a curious penchant for wearing head-to-toe Bottega Veneta—much like the actor himself, who is an official Bottega ambassador. Many have speculated that Elordi’s contract is behind the presence of a trompe l’oeil flannel-printed leather overshirt, famously worn by Kate Moss on the BV runway, in the Euphoria extended universe. It turns out that Nate Jacobs just really loves Matthieu Blazy-era Bottega. Like, really loves it. As the season’s costume designer, Natasha Newman-Thomas, told GQ, the Bottega connection is in fact something of a coincidence. Five years after graduating from high school, Nate is masquerading as …

Euphoria’s Costume Designer Explains Why Nate Jacobs Wears So Much Bottega Veneta

Euphoria’s Costume Designer Explains Why Nate Jacobs Wears So Much Bottega Veneta

Published by Jenni Sidey

Euphoria is back, perhaps for the last time. While (most of) its primary cast, now older and much more famous, has returned for the HBO hit’s third season, the series is also reinventing itself again seven years since its first season aired. The show’s eye-catching, memeable fashion and makeup, in addition to its highly quotable moments, have stood the test of time between seasons; despite being set at the fictional East Highland High School in small-town Southern California, the characters’ looks and makeup were always upping the ante. This season, which takes place five years after the last, places those same characters into a characteristically surreal version of the real world: into drug dens, McMansions, and Hollywood backlots. With that new world-building in mind, Levinson enlisted costume designer Natasha Newman-Thomas to succeed the show’s former Emmy-winning costumer Heidi Bivens, who previously tapped Newman-Thomas to work on another HBO-Levinson project: The Idol, the 2023 HBO series starring The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp. “I absolutely adore Heidi’s work on seasons one and two, and I was a …

Euphoria’s Nate Jacobs Has a Bottega Veneta Contract Too, Apparently

Euphoria’s Nate Jacobs Has a Bottega Veneta Contract Too, Apparently

Published by Jenni Sidey

Jacob Elordi’s Bottega Veneta contract may well be one of the sturdiest documents in show business. But can it withstand the stench of Euphoria’s Nate Jacobs? Since signing on as a brand ambassador for the Italian luxury label in 2024, the Australian actor has made a show (and, surely, an untold quantity of lucrative “brand impressions”) of conspicuously toting around its woven leather bags—at the airport, on coffee runs, during his Italian vacations—and wearing its suits on red carpets, even in the rain. Now the actor’s deal appears to have spilled over into his swan song as antagonist Nate Jacobs on the HBO hit, whose years-in-the-making third and seemingly final season will debut on April 12. In a new Euphoria trailer that dropped yesterday, Elordi’s character can be seen weathering the hero piece of Bottega Veneta’s spring 2023 show: a trompe l’oeil leather button-up shirt made to look like plaid flannel cloth. (The shirt, which retailed for $6,800, went viral after model Kate Moss wore it with similarly leather-constructed blue jeans on the runway three …

Sofia Coppola taps the whimsy of ’90s Marc Jacobs

Sofia Coppola taps the whimsy of ’90s Marc Jacobs

Published by Sam Flores

Slumped into folding chairs inside his New York studio, renowned designer Marc Jacobs and his brand’s creative director, Joseph Carter, ponder the mood of Jacobs’ Spring 2024 ready-to-wear collection. Jacobs and Carter had spent days stacking wigs onto more wigs, playing with cartoonishly large shapes from head to toe, trying to see what beauty and accessories might look best with the collections’ oversized garments. Behind the camera, Jacobs’ friend and occasional creative collaborator, Sofia Coppola, asks whether they’re favoring a serious look, or something more eccentric — in line with Jacobs’ reputation. “We’re leaning towards entertainment,” Jacobs says, before a wry smile creeps onto his face. “And joy.” Fusing couture-level spectacle with crowd-pleasing performance has long been Jacobs’ M.O. Since his early days designing for Perry Ellis, fresh off a winning showcase at the Parsons School of Design’s end-of-term fashion show, Jacobs has relished throwing a wrench in the system. In the early ’90s, a distinct penchant for mischief and a grittily glamorous New York edge quickly earned Jacobs the moniker of fashion’s bad boy. …

Marc Jacobs and Sofia Coppola on Their Shared Punk Ethos and What Really Happened After His Perry Ellis Grunge Collection

Marc Jacobs and Sofia Coppola on Their Shared Punk Ethos and What Really Happened After His Perry Ellis Grunge Collection

Published by Sam Flores

Marc, having followed your career and having seen the documentary, I would consider you to be quite a forward-looking person. What was it like to have to step back and do a kind of retrospective of your own career at this point? Coppola: I do consider you to be a forward-looking person—or present, right? Jacobs: I try to be. It wasn’t intentional, but seeing the movie, I realized, through this last process of the last show, how inspired and how excited I was by the past and how it does come up for me repeatedly in whatever my present is. It was great to see them, especially the ’90s, like the X-Girl show. Coppola: I hadn’t thought about that time, so it was fun to revisit. Jacobs: It just took me back to that moment, how different life was then, and there were no smartphones. Coppola: It was just kind of looser and you’d run into people. Jacobs: Just being reminded of those memories feels kind of nice. Marc, there’s a point in the documentary …

Marc Jacobs Answers the Proust Questionnaire

Marc Jacobs Answers the Proust Questionnaire

Published by Sam Flores

What is your idea of perfect happiness? An empty head and a full heart. What is your greatest fear? Shame. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Peter Pan. Which living person do you most admire? Dr. Richardson, my psychiatrist. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Self-consciousness. What is the trait you most deplore in others? Messiness. What is your greatest extravagance? A fresh set of nails every three weeks. What is your favorite journey? Putting together a show. On what occasion do you lie? When I am afraid of what telling the truth might bring. What do you dislike most about your appearance? My height—I’m short. Which living person do you most despise? That asshole. What is your greatest regret? Je ne regrette rien. What or who is the greatest love of your life? My husband, Charly. Which talent would you most like to have? Mine, but greater. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I would lose my insecurities. If you were to die …

Marc Jacobs Bags Disappear Amid Complaints They Depict Angelyne

Marc Jacobs Bags Disappear Amid Complaints They Depict Angelyne

Published by Daniella Wilson

A Marc Jacobs tote bag that some feel rips off L.A. billboard queen Angelyne‘s likeness has disappeared from the fashion label’s website. While the City Tote Bag collection still features bags themed for major destinations like Las Vegas, Paris, London, Miami and New York City, the controversial La-La-Land entry is nowhere to be found. The bag drew complaints online for its depiction of a reclining bombshell over the Hollywood sign — an image that evoked similar poses used by Angelyne in the billboards that made her famous around L.A. starting in the 1980s. As reported by Page Six, Angelyne reposted comments lambasting the bags for using her image without compensation. One angry fan likened the move to “thievery.” The famous-for-being-famous local icon can be found driving her trademark pink Corvette around town, occasionally pulling over to sell Angelyne-branded merchandise to fans. She was the subject of a series of widely-read Hollywood Reporter profiles that were later adapted into a Peacock bio-series starring Emmy Rossum. Angelyne denounced the reporting, which unraveled the secrets of her past, as …

Why I Am a Reform Jew + Rabbi Rick Jacobs

Why I Am a Reform Jew + Rabbi Rick Jacobs

Published by Sam Flores

Imagine a conversation in a household during this season. A husband asks his wife: “Must we go to the holiday concert at school tonight? You know how much I dislike Christmas songs.” The wife pauses. Then she asks, “’Must?’ As in, is there a law? A state statute requiring parents to attend school concerts?” “Well…no,” he says. “That’s not what I meant.” “Then,” she says, her voice sharpening just a bit, “we must go. Because we love our daughter. And she is singing in the concert.” End of conversation. We replay this exchange all the time, whether we notice it or not. Must a mother go to her child’s soccer game? Must we attend that birthday party? Must a wife get her husband a birthday gift?          There are no laws that make any of these things necessary. So, why do we do them? Because the relationship creates the obligation. That is one of the most important questions facing Jews today — why do Jewish? That came up in my recent conversation (and podcast) with …