On March 27, the Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation announced that the company will donate $10 million to aid coronavirus relief—split between the Emergency Assistance Foundation, the World Health Organization’s COVID- 19 Solidarity Response Fund, and other organizations
Furthermore, the brand says it will provide financial assistance to its employees “facing special circumstances, like medical, eldercare, or childcare needs.” The company previously announced that select Ralph Lauren stores are closing temporarily but assured workers that they will still be paid. Ralph Lauren also plans to utilize its “U.S. manufacturing partners” to produce medical-grade protective materials, including 25,000 isolation gowns and 250,000 masks.
“Now more than ever, in this time of need, supporting each other has become our mission. Together we move forward with patience and optimism in the face of uncertainty,” Ralph Lauren’s full statement on this issue reads. “Our hearts and thoughts are with the global community. Our hope is to be a beacon of optimism and unity as we navigate this unprecedented time. It is in the spirit of togetherness that we will rise.”
Included in the $10 million relief effort will be an inaugural gift to the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and Vogue Fashion Fund to help support the American fashion community.
Ralph Lauren, of course, is not the only fashion brand committed to helping those in need during the coronavirus outbreak. Brandon Maxwell, Prada, and a continually-growing list of fashion houses have promised to use their resources to make masks and gowns for hospitals facing shortages. Christian Siriano has already produced 1,000 masks with his team.
Meanwhile, luxury brand companies, like LVMH, are also writing checks and retooling their perfume and cosmetic factories to create more hand sanitizer. We truly love to see it, and hope other major companies (fashion and otherwise) follow suit.
These days it’s nearly impossible to know what women are spending on the way they look—especially for their wedding. Someone with Instagram-flawless contouring might’ve booked a friend for the task, and the utterly makeup-free type might’ve spent thousands on laser treatments and serums. Enter our series What It Costs to Be Me, in which we’re asking interesting women for radical transparency.
Next up? Lauren Bushnell, reality star and influencer, 29, from Nashville, TN. Her grand total? $3,342
Some brides have been planning their weddings since childhood, others, like Bachelor alum Lauren Bushnell, who married country singer Chris Lane in October, take a decidedly more lax approach. “I didn’t really fully know what I wanted,” Bushnell tells Glamour. “I’ve never been the type who envisioned my wedding day for years. I just knew I didn’t want anything over the top.”
That’s not to say it wasn’t an occasion we’ve come to expect from Bachelor stars. Rather, the couple placed more emphasis on personal touches than lavish details. “I really wanted it to be simple, elegant, and about the actual ceremony rather than about me getting really caught up in throwing this big wedding,” says Bushnell, who, over six travel-filled months, planned her Nashville ceremony and reception alongside wedding planner Josiah Carr. The result was a classic ceremony with plenty of greenery to remind Bushnell of her native Oregon, and an afterparty complete with a Shake Shack food truck.
The night before the wedding, Bushnell had a sleepover with her mom and sister to unwind and prepare for the day ahead. The morning of her mindset was simple: stay as relaxed as possible. “I made sure to get a really good night’s sleep, and took a nice hot bath before working through my vows a little bit.”
Catch actor, comedian, and Raised By TV podcast host Lauren Lapkus in Between Two Ferns: The Movie, streaming now on Netflix.
There’s nothing like snuggling up in front of the TV and unwinding with a good memory. I can nuzzle into the wedge of my couch with a faux-fur blanket and relive my childhood spent within the halls of Bayside High, on the window seat of Clarissa’s bedroom, sitting in the cozy booths of the Peach Pit, staring at the top of Stimpy’s beautiful, red butt.
For me, the words “summer vacation” evoke more memories of Wild N Crazy Kids and Brady Bunch reruns than horseback rides at camp or jumping off docks. (I tried camp once…not enough TVs. Also, I can’t really swim, but we don’t need to get into that now.) Don’t get me wrong: I had exciting summers! I danced outside of the school gym with Zack and Kelly because her dad lost his job and she couldn’t afford to go to prom. I fainted on the treadmill with DJ when she felt she had to lose weight for Kimmy’s pool party. Wakko taught me all the state capitals, and I promptly forgot them (which is probably what he would have wanted).
I watched it all, indiscriminately, everything from Family Matters to Jerry Springer to my favorite of all time (FOAT?), The Oprah Winfrey Show. This was before our attention spans became too short for theme songs, and I can place just about any of them after hearing a few notes, or even just the lyrics spoken without a melody, as I once proved on a friend’s comedy show. (No one was as excited about this as I was, BTW.) The Who’s the Boss? theme song is deeper to me than most Shakespeare:
There is more to life than what you’re living. You take a chance and face the wind. An open road and a road that’s hidden. A brand new life
around the bend.
It brings a tear to my eye to picture that van heading to a new life at Angela’s house. This was the early ’90s—the (first) golden age of television. These shows are fucking perfect. Or…at least that’s how I felt until I started a podcast about all of this.
My Raised By TV co-host, Jon Gabrus, and I both grew up with our faces melting in front of our TVs long before the concept of “screen time” would ruin everything. This core commonality instantly shot him into sibling territory like that little shooting star from “The More You Know.” (Don’t remember a single one of those lessons, either.) Finding that person who will giddily sing the Tiny Toons theme song with you is a special thing. So we started the show raring to jump back into our pasts, to bask in unbridled, nostalgic joy, to relive beautiful moments we had spent alone and realize we actually never were because we both—along with so many others, we’ve learned—had these exact same memories.
Could we be any more excited about the latest way the fashion world is paying tribute to Friends?
In honor of the 25th anniversary of the show first airing on NBC, Ralph Lauren partnered with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to create the Wear-to-Work collection, inspired by one-time Ralph Lauren employee Rachel Green (played, of course, by Jennifer Aniston).
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Rachel was always the fashionista of the show. She may have started as a (not-so-great) waitress at the Central Perk, but it wasn’t long before she found her way to a job in the buying department at Bloomingdale’s and then eventually a role at Ralph Lauren. With ’90s and early aughts fashion having a moment right now, it’s the perfect time for an updated version of her chic workwear aesthetic. (As a young woman in starting her career in New York in the late ’90s, I can attest to the fact that Rachel Green was a definite role model for what to wear to the office.)
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“The collection, comprised of pieces from Polo and LAUREN Ralph Lauren, encapsulates the polished style synonymous with the iconic brand. The collection calls on tradition through pinstripe suiting, crested blazers, and equestrian- inspired accessories, while enhancing these classic pieces with navy and orange color-blocking and pops of leopard to offer a fresh fall spirit,” the brand said in a statement. The campaign was shot in recreations of Monica and Rachel’s apartment and the Central Perk, which truly hit all of my nostalgia buttons.
We were all a little bummed when Lauren Conrad decided not to join the MTV reboot of The Hills, which premieres this year, but it seems she has enough going on in 2019: On Tuesday, April 2, the former reality show star revealed that she and her husband, William Tell, are expecting their second child.
Conrad shared the news on Instagram with a photo of her baby bump. “It’s been hard to keep this one to myself,” she wrote in the caption. “Very excited to share that our family will be getting a little bigger this year.”
Conrad and Tell, who got married back in September 2014, had their first child, Liam James, two years ago. If you remember, the couple announced that pregnancy in equally adorable fashion: Conrad posted a picture of her sonogram on the first day of the year, writing, “Happy New Year! I have a feeling 2017 is going to be the best year yet….”
While she was pregnant and after she gave birth, Conrad has gotten candid about motherhood—she even provided some tips for how people should approach soon-to-be-moms. (Note: Ask before you touch her baby bump.) Just after she had Liam James, she told People that she’d been thinking about expanding her family with another baby.
“I was looking at him the other day, and I was like, ‘I understand now why people keep having babies!'” she told the publication. “We’ll probably have two. I think it’s best not to be outnumbered.”
In addition to doing some family planning, Conrad also recently shared that she’s launching a podcast that’ll tackle lifestyle tips and ideas. She’s also continuing to work on her business The Little Market, a fair-trade-focused store with a mission of women empowering other women. It’s going to be a jam-packed few months for her, and I can’t wait to see how it all unfolds—luckily, LC is diligent about documenting it all on her Instagram account.
On any given day, you can typically find Taylor Hill in front of the camera, on a runway, or hanging at home with her boyfriend, Michael Stephen Shank, and their mini labradoodle, Tate. The Colorado native loves some good R&R—a good bath, some TV in bed. But for Hill, work is her priority: the 22-year-old model has walked countless fashion shows and is a face for Lancôme. And now, she has a new gig under her belt, as the newest face of Ralph Lauren Romance. She’s starring in the fragrance’s latest campaign, which launches today. And to ensure the romance in the campaign feels legit, she brought her longtime beau, Shank, along for the ride.
We sat down with Hill, with Shank and adorable Tate in tow, to ask them all of our Big Beauty Questions, below.
Glamour: What made you team up with Ralph Lauren?
They called me, they said they wanted to work with us and I said, “Heck yes!” For me, it just made so much sense because I’m from Colorado and I feel like a lot of essence and spirit of the brand is that western cowboy theme. It’s a huge deal where I’m from. Growing up, I always knew what Ralph Lauren was and when I came to New York and started modeling, I walked into a Ralph Lauren store for the first time and was like, “Wow, this looks like home. I don’t feel so homesick!” I’ve been walking for the brand since I was 17 and I’ve done almost every show since then.
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Hill and Shank together in the Ralph Lauren Romance campaign
Glamour: What was it like shooting the campaign with your boyfriend?
Taylor Hill: I had the best time. We were just doing our thing, on set just talking. We’re best friends first, and in a relationship, so for us it was like we just got to hang out. It was work for sure, but it was fun working together.
Michael Stephen Shank: I don’t want to say that it was too easy, but it really was too easy.
Glamour: What’s your favorite scent-related memory?
TH: The smell of baking, since my mom baked a lot when we were kids. She makes pies and cookies and all of that stuff—when I smell that, it’s like I’m back home and my mom’s baking cookies and it’s Christmas Eve or a birthday.
Glamour: What does your home smell like?
TH: My mom is obsessed with candles—she has a whole collection and special candles that she won’t light because they’re shaped like pinecones and things like that. We have a fireplace in the center of our house that’s always going in the winter. Home just smells cozy and warm. My favorite candle is Diptyque Baies($65).
Glamour: Do you wear fragrance when you walk the runway?
TH: I’m always running around like crazy so I forget to, but I should, because then it’ll mark the scent of a memory. I’m a firm believer in that. I never had a signature scent, so now I’ll use Romance as that.
Glamour: Have you learned any amazing beauty tricks backstage?
TH: A really good one from makeup artist Fulvia Farolfi: She uses a hair dryer to heat up the eyelash curler. She dabs it on her hand to make sure it’s not too hot and then curls your lashes with it. Your lashes go ‘woop’ and stick straight up and last the whole day. Genius.
TH:Lancôme Monsieur Big mascara($25). Seriously, I’m not just saying because I work with them, I only use that. I stress out if I can’t find it. I’ll give it to makeup artists and be like, “please use this.”
Glamour: Are there any self-care rituals that you swear by?
TH: I love to work out, so doing rest days and massage is really good for muscle recovery. I love massage, I’m a firm believer in deep tissue—it needs to hurt a little bit. I like to take epsom salt baths, which I do a lot in the winter. I get really cold, so during New York winters I’ll take baths at least three times a week.
Glamour: Do you and Michael ever steal beauty products from each other?
TH: He uses Génifique, the serum. And my sunscreen.
MSS: True. I’m doused in that Lancôme stuff. She also uses my Thinksport($7) deodorant, and then it disappears. It works well, so I’ll get it and she’ll steal it, and then I’ll never see it again. It’s a good one.
Glamour: What’s the craziest thing you’ve done in the name of beauty?
TH: I bleached my eyebrows for the Alexander McQueen show because Pat McGrath was doing the makeup. I was 18 and it was my first major London fashion week. My eyebrows are my thing! They’re my look, they’re my staple. I was crying, saying I couldn’t do it. And then Pat looks at me and she’s like, ‘Darling, it’s McQueen!” So I did it.
Glamour: Who’s your beauty icon?
TH: I have many. One of my favorite models is Gisele Bündchen. She’s such a beautiful human being from the inside out. I’m her number one fan. I’ve always loved Brooke Shields, she made me appreciate my eyebrows. And Cindy Crawford. Are you kidding? I love Cindy Crawford. Now we’re kind of friends and I’m so happy about it, and I’m friends with Kaia—I hang out with her backstage at shows and I’m totally chill and normal. But I tell her all the time that I’m a superfan of her mom.
