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Camila Cabello Just Teased New Music Fans Think Is Inspired by Shawn Mendes


Camila Cabello released a new video titled “What Do I Know About Love?” on Saturday, August 31, in which she delivers a moving and deeply poetic speech about the nature of love and what it means to her. The cryptic video led fans to believe new music is on the way—and that Shawn Mendes is the inspiration behind her new album.

“Where does the love go when it runs out? When does it leave? Why does it die,” she asks in the beginning of the clip. “Do you kill it in one violent blow? Or is it a million unattended, unhealed little cuts and scratches?”

Seconds later, Cabello says, “What do I know about love? Everything. It will bring you to your knees—if you did it right. What I know for sure about love is that you never come out of it the same.”

The “Havana” singer, who has been teasing that her second solo album will be inspired by her life and experiences, then goes on to describe what, for her, it feels to be in love with someone.

“I know when you fall in love, you feel like you’re the first and only two people in the world,” Cabello continues. “Every kiss, every touch, every caress is like something you feel nobody has ever felt before. And you think, has everybody that’s ever fallen in love before just walked around this nonchalantly the whole time?”

“What I know for sure is falling in love with life itself makes an artist out of everyone,” she adds. “I thought I was making art before. Writing songs was me making art, but now I want my life to be the work of art and my songwriting to be the camera that I take a picture of it with. It’s what I’m living. That’s the art.”

Cabello’s cryptic video comes after the end of her two-year relationship with ex Matthew Hussey and amid a rumored romance with Mendes. Following the breakup and the release of their music video for”Señorita,” she and the Canadian singer have been spotting kissing and holding hands in public on multiple occasions. The two also delivered a steamy performance during the 2019 MTV VMAs just last week.

Despite spending all summer together, Cabello and Mendes have yet to confirm their relationship. This hasn’t stopped fans from coming up with their own conclusions about what this cryptic video means, though.

See Cabello’s full teaser in the video, below:



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Hilary Duff Says Her New Haircut Was Inspired by Lizzie McGuire


Earlier this year Miley Cyrus broke the internet when she debuted a Hannah Montana–inspired haircut, and now another Disney icon is following suit: Hilary Duff. The actress-slash-singer unveiled a new haircut on Instagram last night, and she straight up admitted it was inspired by Lizzie McGuire, the Disney Channel character who catapulted her to superstardom. (She played the preteen heroine for two seasons in the early aughts, as well as in 2003’s The Lizzie McGuire Movie.)

“I kind of have been itching for my Lizzie McGuire bangs for a while,” she told Refinery29 about the new look, which you can check out in the screenshot, below:

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And in this Instagram post.

According to R29, Duff chopped about three inches off her hair and trimmed her bangs slightly. “Got a short do,” she posted to her Instagram Story, tagging her stylist, Nikki Lee.

The hair is absolutely Lizzie McGuire–esque. You can perhaps see the similarities best in this shot from The Lizzie McGuire movie, below.

Hilary Duff in the Lizzie McGuire Movie.
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Ali Wong and Randall Park on the Real-Life Things That Inspired Always Be My Maybe


Wong: When he called and proposed that we write a rom-com together, I thought—because at the time no one had known me at all for acting—that he meant he wanted me to write something with him for him to star in with somebody else. Which is perfectly normal. That seems like a rude thing, but people ask that kind of shit all the time. I thought he wanted to be in something with Emma Stone or something. And I would’ve done it! And then he clarified and was like, “I think it should be a romantic comedy for you and I to star in together.” We just got to it.

This story is so distinctly Asian American. I was sitting in a screening room next to another Asian reporter, and as soon as we saw the Spam on the plate in the first scene, we both gasped. I grew up not seeing myself on screen at all in pop culture, so it’s still surreal seeing two Asian people fall in love.

Wong: I wonder what it’s like for non-Asian people to see that. I keep hearing people from people who are Asian American who are so excited to see it, and I wonder what it’s like for [non-Asians].

Park: It’s like growing up watching When Harry Met Sally. I put myself in their shoes.

Wong: But like, when would you ever see another Asian American couple hook up?

Park: Never. That’s a good question. I wonder if it has any effect on non-Asians.

Wong: The effect is that there’s been this whole online discussion about Randall being a snack. And then there are debates on whether he’s a snack or a meal. So there’s a revelation amongst non-Asian people about something that I’ve known for a very long time: Asian-American men are super sexy. And Daniel [Dae Kim] and Randall are like 50.

Park: I’m 45!

Ali Wong and Randall Park at an afterparty for the Always Be My Maybe premiere.

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When you were writing the script, did you add little Easter eggs for Asian Americans, or was the whole movie just very Asian because of you two writing it and Nahnatchka Khan directing it?

Park: We didn’t come in thinking of that. For us it was really about making a good movie—a good rom-com that came from a real place. I think that’s where those elements made their way in because they came from our experiences, like Ali growing up in the Bay Area. A lot of those details kind of came in as we were making the film and filling up the world. The little details people appreciate weren’t written in the script.

Wong: To me, Marcus’ character is very much a type of guy that I grew up with. A very Asian American dude who grew up in the Bay and lives at home well into his 30s because of gentrification and rent is so expensive in San Francisco. They have this artistic passion and they’re not that ambitious because they’re third generation. Their parents don’t have that crazy immigrant mentality. That’s something I have never seen on camera before, but that’s something I very much grew up with. These guys were so sexy and confident, but they’re good, you know? They’re satisfied and not watching for anything more. And his dad is his friend.

Yeah, you usually just see tiger moms and overbearing immigrant parents in pop culture…

Wong: Right, and you haven’t seen that kind of Asian dad before. My dad was born in the United States. He didn’t have any accent, he was very progressive, and he journaled. He’s really into self-reflection. I know a lot of dads like that, and I have always felt like it’s a shame that they weren’t on camera. This is not the Asian American rom-com. This is an Asian American rom com. That’s an Asian American dad. That’s an Asian American guy I haven’t seen before. And that’s very exciting to me.

In that opening scene, Marcus doesn’t want to bring leftover kimchi stew to school. He says no one wants to sit next to a thermos kid, which is the stinky lunchbox problem that I imagine a lot of Asian Americans feel going to school with something that’s not just PB&J. What made that important?



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How the Trumps Inspired 'The Handmaid's Tale' Costumes in Season 3


The room is full of suits and ties waiting at attention. The Aunts surround the left wall. The floor in the back is covered in boots ready to march. But all you see is red. There, in the center, 250 Handmaids’ gowns hang limp, lifeless in a row; rustling only when the breeze of someone rushing over to the Marthas whisks by. There’s only one exit, and between you and it lies Melania Trump.

With how much The Handmaid’s Tale—Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel—blurs with the political landscape of 2019, this scene doesn’t sound like it’d be out of place in the show’s third season, which premieres today, June 5. The wives of Gilead in many ways resemble what Melania and Ivanka Trump have come to represent: women who uphold a ruthless patriarchal society, yet are oppressed by it at the same time. (In other words, the 52 percent.)

But in reality, I’m standing in the middle of the show’s gigantic storage closet at its set in Toronto. It’s mid-April, and the costume department just got through one of its heaviest design sprints: hundreds of Handmaids’ dresses, 54 Wives’ gowns, and a handful of sharply tailored teal blue looks for Serena Joy Waterford, the Commander’s formidable wife. And still, the designers have work to do. Today, they’re sewing outfits for the Jezebels. Then it’s back to focusing on Serena’s closet. (As for Melania, we’ll get to her soon.)

“Serena is my favorite to design for,” Natalie Bronfman, the show’s lead costume designer, says as she points to a wall in her office covered in sketches of blue gowns. “I take a lot of elements from the late fifties and early sixties as inspiration. The real clean, shaped stuff. Then I mix them in teal.”

It’s not just the box-pleats or angular necklines that makes designing for Serena a costumer’s dream. It’s her complexities—like tormenting a postpartum June for running away and giving birth in an abandoned country home; then turning around to set June and baby Nicole free from her womanizing husband and Gilead’s archaic rules.

“Costume says so much,” Bronfman says. “It tells where you’re from, what your economic status is, what your mental status is. That’s all there in how and what you wear. People tend to write it off as ‘just clothes’—but it’s not, actually.”

Serena’s pivotal moment in the season two finale, where she gives away baby Nicole.

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Season two had plenty moments that made you think maybe Serena isn’t the monster we thought she was, only to turn right around and confirm that, yeah, she really is the worst. (Well, maybe next to Aunt Lydia.) Season 3 delivers even more of that “Will she? Won’t she?” pit-in-your-stomach anxiety—and, without giving away any spoilers, her mental state is often reflected in her clothes.

But wait, let’s back up: You’re probably curious about what the hell Melania was doing in the costume department? I was too. In fact, I was shocked when I saw images of the Trump family hanging up in a few different places around the room. (Unfortunately I can’t share pictures of these mood boards, due to spoilers.)

“Oh, that?” Bronfman laughs when I point out the photo of Melania hanging on the exit door. It’s that now almost too apt meme of the First Lady walking down a hall of the White House’s dystopian red Christmas trees. On top of each one sits a crisp white, photoshopped bonnet.

“That was right at Christmas and somebody sent it to us, so we put it up because we were in the midst of building all of these Handmaids’ dresses,” she says, gesturing to the 250 capes in front of us.



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How Netflix's Dead to Me Was Inspired by Creator Liz Feldman's Life


Liz Feldman created Dead to Me, Netflix’s new dark and twisty dramedy, during a tumultuous time: She was dealing with the sudden death of a cousin, a frustrating fertility journey, and turning 40. Here, she explains how all of that inspired a show about grief, loss, and friendship.

I’ve been trying to have a baby for six years. And I won’t save the worst for last: I haven’t been successful yet.

My fertility journey has felt more like an odyssey, or if I’m being really honest, a full-on Greek tragedy. There have been painful procedures, infections, and miscarriage. Just when I thought things might be looking up, a lab technician at my Fertility Clinic lost the one egg they were able to retrieve from me. Yes, you read that right. I made one egg and they lost it. And yes, you’re totally allowed to laugh. It was my eighth egg retrieval. I had to laugh too, because I was so tired of crying.

I have learned to look at the darkest moments in life and see the comic aura around them. It’s become more than a coping mechanism; it’s my ethos. And now it’s a TV show.

I created Dead To Me, a deep, dark, twisty dramedy, in the weeks following my fortieth birthday. Turning forty can be a real mind bender, especially if you’re on fertility hormones and trying to get pregnant for what feels like the 600th time. Staring down my own mortality while trying to create life put me in a pretty dark headspace.

And then, on the day of my fortieth birthday, my cousin David died unexpectedly of a heart attack. He was fifty. I absolutely adored David. He was the heart of our family, the life of every party, and a great dad to two sweet kids. And yes, you are totally allowed to cry. I am as I write this.

Christina Applegate, Liz Feldman, and Linda Cardellini at Netflix’s Dead To Me premiere.

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The day after David passed away, my best friend Sarah told me she was pregnant with her second child. I love Sarah madly, but I had to excuse myself to go cry in the bathroom. It’s not that I begrudged her luck, I was just so ready to have some of my own. That night, I flew to New York for David’s funeral.

The following day, I had lunch in Brooklyn with my other best friend, Kelly, who told me she was pregnant. This time I didn’t cry. Instead, I was filled with a weird kind of tingly hope. Maybe this is why it took so long for me to get pregnant—so Sarah, Kelly, and I could have our kids together! Of course! I was buoyed by this thought and reinvigorated. Life does have a way of working out, I thought, until the following day, when I got my period.

A week later, I pitched the beginnings of Dead To Me, a show about two women who meet in a grief support group. Jen (Christina Applegate) and Judy (Linda Cardellini) have suffered immense loss, but they gain strength and comfort from their newfound friendship. The story, though not autobiographical, is deeply personal. The facts are made up. The feelings are real.

With Dead To Me, I have definitely experienced some incredible luck. I got to birth an idea and grow it into a show that I now get to share with the world, via Netflix. Of course, my luck didn’t come in the form I had hoped for, but life is full of twists and turns. Just ask my best friend Kelly. Tragically, five months into her pregnancy, she lost her baby. It was a devastating time. None of it made sense. Here was my beautiful, kind, wonderful friend experiencing a level of pain and loss she did not deserve. It was impossible not to be furious at the cruelty and relentlessness of life.



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14 Tuxedo Dresses Inspired by Meghan Markle—and Just in Time for the Holidays


In the year since Meghan Markle announced she’d be joining the Royal Family, much of her wardrobe has incorporated sophisticated, Duchess-approved pieces like suiting separates and sheaths, many of them. But Markle is something of a nonconformist when it comes to palace “protocol” (her messy buns!)—and that has become clear through her fashion choices, namely her love of the red-carpet-worthy blazer dress. The Duchess of Sussex has worn the celebrity-beloved style everywhere from formal events to a royal tour (and sans stockings—gasp), in a range of colors and lengths. And while they’ve come from the likes of designer labels, the tuxedo dress can be yours for $200 or less. So consider the Markle-inspired ensembles ahead for your next holiday party (or royal engagement, we don’t know your life.)



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