Back in August 2019, Katie Holmes’s outfit of the day went totally viral. Who can forget the matching cashmere bra and sweater set she was photographed wearing while going about her day in New York City?
It was pure luxury, but the look also had a cool sexiness thanks to the way the slouchy sweater hung off of her shoulder. The internet went wild for it—but given how private Holmes is, we thought we’d never learn what she was thinking when she got dressed that morning. Thanks to a new interview with InStyle to promote her new film The Secret: Dare to Dream, we finally have some answers to all our burning cashmere bra questions.
When asked about the fashion moment she’s having right now, Holmes jokingly told the magazine, “I have been in this business for quite some time. We both know you have ups and downs. It’s been a really exciting time because of the cashmere bra.”
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But when pushed further as to why she chose that $520 Khaite bra and $1,540 sweater combo (which sold out quickly after she wore it), Holmes had a pretty relatable response. “Honestly, I wasn’t feeling so sexy. And I saw that and was like, ‘Sexy. I can do that!’ I thought it would be good if I was in a cabin sitting by the fire and wore the [matching] sweater over it,” she said. “That’s how my brain works. But then I was like, ‘Oh, wait, I’m not in a cabin, and I’m not going to a cabin.’ I still thought I could pull it off, though. I had noticed other people wearing bras with blazers.”
As for the perfect positioning of the sweater? We can blame Katie Holmes’s daughterSuri for that. “I didn’t want to get into trouble with my teenager! We were school shopping, and I was just trying to hail a cab on Sixth Avenue,” she said, laughing. “It looked way more glamorous than it was.”
Can’t wait for your next viral fashion moment, KH!
This post contains spoilers for the final season of Game of Thrones. Consider yourself warned.
Game of Thrones has been over for a month—we’re doing Big Little Lies on Sundays now—but will it ever truly be over? That’s probably a no, and not just because a prequel is in the works. A show like Thrones lends itself to endless speculation, especially considering how unhappy many fans were with how showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss opted to close out the eighth and final season.
New details are still emerging about what could have been for some of our favorite inhabitants of Westeros. According to People, actress Lena Headey recently told the crowd at a German comic book convention about a deleted scene that showed her character, Cersei Lannister, having a miscarriage. “We shot a scene that never made it into season seven, which was where I lose the baby,” she said. “And it was a really traumatic, great moment for Cersei, and it never made it in.”
“I kind of loved doing that because I thought it would’ve served her differently,” she continued. “Of course, we’re not exactly sure what made the show’s creators scrap the scene, but we can’t say it isn’t interesting to at least think about how that moment may have changed things.”
You’ll remember that Cersei told her brother Jaime that she was carrying their child and had also convinced Euron Greyjoy that she was pregnant with his baby. Her other brother, Tyrion, tried to use the unborn baby as a motivation for Cersei to negotiate with him and Daenerys, to no avail. Fans were left to wonder what was really going on with Cersei. Was she ever really pregnant? Why wasn’t she showing more if time was passing?
Now we know that, at some point, the show’s creators had planned to offer an explanation. Also, we agree with Headey that we would have loved to see this sort of pivotal scene from Cersei, who was often underused in season eight. Headey recently told The Guardian that she has a “few of her own gripes” about the way Game of Thrones ended, in general, and that she wanted a better death for Cersei. “I will say I wanted a better death,” she said. “Obviously you dream of your death. You could go in any way on that show. So I was kind of gutted. But I just think they couldn’t have pleased everyone. No matter what they did, I think there was going to be some big comedown from the climb.”
On Sunday evening, Chrissy Teigen did the world (and all John-and-Chrissy shippers) a massive favor: She went on Twitter and, seemingly out of nowhere, posited a few question to the young daters of today. Along the way, she hilariously revealed how she and John Legend ended up living together, and it’s all so classic Chrissy.
The epic social media tea-and-sympathy sesh started off with an impromptu (but perfectly rational) query: “I haven’t dated for a long, long time but are guys really pulling the ‘let’s be exclusive’ thing 6 months into dating like what, I have been exclusive what the fuck have you been,” she wrote.
Fans quickly chimed in with some of their dating horror stories. Chrissy replied supportively (“oh man these stories. I don’t know how you guys are out there dating now. god bless you on your journey”) and then also took the time to crack a few jokes about her 12-year partnership with Legend.
When someone teased that her relationship question was “the worst John Legend subtweet ever,” she joked back with a laughing emoji and wrote, “12 years in and married ‘baby hey, I’m ready to be exclusive.'”
Next, a further glimpse into her previous romances—which, yep, is every bit as Chrissy as you might expect: “I didn’t date much. I moved in with people. like hello, I live here now. this is how John ended up in this situation.”
Honestly, crying. And, even if that is how things went down, it’s pretty clear Legend should be thanking her: Chrissy proved she’s in the running for best wife ever earlier this month when she threw him a crazy James Bond-themed 40th-birthday party and left him an adorable Instagram video tribute. So, y’know, it’s OK if she’s roasted him a little bit along the way.
Before she signed off yesterday, she made sure to leave a few heartfelt GIFS and jokes for some Twitter users recovering from playing the field.
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Priyanka Chopra celebrated her bridal shower at Tiffany & Co. in New York over the weekend, and both the party and her dress—a Marchesa strapless gown with a feathered hem—made headlines. In a new interview with WWD, Chopra explained why she chose to wear a gown from the brand cofounded by Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig.
“Georgina’s a friend of mine, and she has been,” Chopra told WWD. “Women supporting women: That’s what we’re all about.”
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Marchesa, once a label frequently spotted on the red carpet, has been less prominent among the celebrity crowd since 2017, when the New York Times first published its report on Harvey Weinstein, then Chapman’s husband. (They have since separated.) The connection between the brand and the disgraced Hollywood producer came under scrutiny, and its presence on the awards-show circuit noticeably subsided.
Chopra explained to WWD that she thinks Chapman’s label shouldn’t be sullied by the controversy surrounding the designer’s former husband: “[It’s] not her fault. And I don’t think it’s right to take it out on a self-made woman what somebody in her life did. That’s the wrong attitude. I’ve known her for years, and that was a beautiful gown, and deserved to be worn by a bride-to-be. And it made me feel like a princess. It was the right choice.”
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In recent months Marchesa has slowly begun to reemerge: Scarlett Johansson wore one of its gowns to the 2018 Met Gala (the first celebrity to wear the brand on a red carpet since the article was published in October 2017), and one of its designs was featured as part of a climactic scene in Crazy Rich Asians. Chapman also gave her first interview following the Weinstein allegations to Vogue in its June 2018 issue.
Celebrities who have worn Marchesa in 2018 have echoed Chopra’s sentiments. Following the Met Gala, Johansson released a statement about her look, saying: “I wore Marchesa because their clothes make women feel confident and beautiful, and it is my pleasure to support a brand created by two incredibly talented and important female designers.”
The Big Bang Theory didn’t just go big for its final Halloween episode of the series, it went epic. From a Supreme Court justice to an ’80s cartoon character, the writers, actors, and costume department pulled out all the stops to propel the story forward while also paying homage to its iconic characters. Every costume was made in house in a matter of weeks; no easy feat when you’re talking about the Bill of Rights or a helicopter propeller. And the episode’s main story—Sheldon getting his feelings hurt when Howard dressed up as him for Halloween—was actually loosely based on a real-life event that happened to one of the writers. Given all the heavy lifting that went in to creating the episode, executive producer and showrunner Steve Holland gave Glamour.com the exclusive details on how it all came together.
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This episode was inspired by a real-life event. One of the series’ writers, Erik Kaplan, previously worked on Malcolm in the Middle, and one Halloween another writer dressed up as him. “I don’t think his feelings were hurt like Sheldon’s,” EP Steve Holland says. “But it was such a great jumping off point for a funny story that had real emotional repercussions for the characters. The thought of getting to see Simon Helberg do his Sheldon impression seemed really exciting, that led to the idea that Sheldon and Amy could get their revenge by dressing as Howard and Bernadette. The whole thing really started to take shape.”
Every costume in “The Imitation Perturbation” was custom made. Mary T. Quigley is Big Bang‘s costume designer; she and her team spent weeks creating each Halloween costume. “Working Inspector Gadget and U.S. Constitution costumes aren’t exactly things you can get off the shelf,” Holland jokes. “She did a ton of research, and we actually had long discussions about the Bill of Rights on the back of the Constitution costume. She had gone to the National Archives website to find what that looked like.” In fact, there were a lot of conversations about that image and if it was the proposed amendments or the ratified amendments. “That’s the level of attention—and pure nerdery—that went into everything.”
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There’s a secret meaning behind Raj’s Kooth Bader Ginsburg costume. Perhaps one of the most timely costumes this season is Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is the subject of her own documentary as well as an upcoming movie starring Felicity Jones. But Big Bang writers took it a step further and had Raj go by Kooth (from his last name, Koothrappali) Bader Ginsburg as a fun play on words. “It seemed very in character [for him]” Holland says. “Kooth Bader Ginsburg made us laugh.” The only thing the writers couldn’t decide on was whether to give Raj a bun or not. “In the end, since he was ‘Kooth’ Bader Ginsburg, we decided that he could go without a bun.” As for why the writers also wanted Raj’s new fiancé, Anu, to go as the Bill of Rights, Holland says they wanted them to have a couples costume to show that their relationship was progressing and were getting more comfortable with each other.
This surprising costume was the most time-consuming of all. From the outside looking in, Sheldon Cooper is a simple man. His daily wardrobe never veers far from a T-shirt over a long-sleeve thermal. So what could be that hard about dressing up as Sheldon? Turns out quite a bit. Holland says that having Simon Helberg dress up as Sheldon was the most time-consuming of all the costumes because of Sheldon’s matted, perfectly coiffed hair. “Simon had a blast dressed up as Sheldon, but he spent hours in the makeup chair because it was extremely time-consuming hiding his real hair under a bald cap and then laying Sheldon-hair on top of it.” And while Simon had easy access to Jim Parsons in case he needed any tips on how to play Sheldon, none was needed. “Simon is actually a really terrific impressionist,” Holland notes. “I love that his choice was not to do a straight mimic of Sheldon, but to exaggerate him to a caricature.”
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Here’s why Howard and Bernadette dressed up as Marry Poppins and Bert. “Howard and Bernadette are really playful together, so we wanted them to have something with a sense of whimsy and fun attached to it,” Holland says. “We wanted something that seemed appropriate for the characters and not random. And it seemed like Howard would love getting to do his best cockney—or worst cockney, as the case may be—accent.”
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And why Sheldon and Amy were Doc Brown and Clara from Back to the Future III. Holland and the writing staff are huge fans of Back to the Future. (Hey, Michael J. Fox, now’s the time for a cameo!). But by coincidence, Holland and fellow EP Steve Molaro got to have lunch with Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis after they wrote the script for this episode. “I tried not to gush,” Holland says, “but I was very excited to tell him that we were using Back to the Future in our Halloween episode.”
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Why dressing up as Inspector Gadget wasn’t as easy as it looked. The wardrobe department created that elaborate propeller that Leonard wore to play Inspector Gadget, but, according to Holland, it was “heavy and awkward.” That’s the because the blades were originally much longer, but it was “hard to walk around the set without hitting people.” It was also hard to balance, so the wardrobe team had to keep cutting them down until they found a length that worked.
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The reason why Penny didn’t play Inspector Gadget’s niece, Penny. Die-hard I.G. fans know that Penny secretly does all of her uncle’s work during his missions, even though he (groan) takes all the credit for it after. So why didn’t Big Bang‘s Penny play her, which could have led to some interesting back and forth? “It’s funny, Johnny Galecki texted me when he got the script to ask why she wasn’t dressing as Penny from Inspector Gadget since they even share a name,” Holland says. “The truth is, when we were first writing it, she was Penny from Inspector Gadget, but since Penny is Inspector Gadget’s niece and Leonard and Penny were talking all about their first kiss, it started to cast a weird tone over the scene. So we changed it.” Good call.
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The costume of all costumes: Mayim Bialik as Bernadette and Jim Parsons as Howard. I don’t know about you guys, but I could have watched an entire episode of Amy as Bernadette and Sheldon as Howard. Holland agrees. “Mayim looked so good as Bernadette! She actually had a really bad cold earlier in the week and was worried she wasn’t going to be able to get her voice up high enough to do Bernadette. Luckily she recovered over the weekend and was hilarious.”
