Loose Threads
Thank you to Time magazine for picking Gwyneth: The Biography as one of the must read books of 2025!
Today in “Kim Kardashian always gets the last laugh”: Skims’s latest valuation is $5 billion.
Atlein founder Antonin Tron will succeed Olivier Rousteing as the creative director of Balmain.
If you, like me, are looking for matching holiday pajamas for your family, I’m partial to these cheetah-print ones by Printfresh. (They are also having an early Black Friday sale on most satin styles, which gets you 25 percent off “leopard nutcrackers.”)
‘All’s Fair’ Fashion Review: A Thong Business Suit and Gloves in the Ladies Room
I subjected myself to the first three available episodes of Ryan Murphy’s new Hulu show All’s Fair and can confirm that everything you’ve read about how bad it is is correct. The Rotten Tomatoes rating stands at 4 percent as I type (better than its earlier rating of ZERO). The Guardian gave it no stars. The Times UK said it “may be the worst TV drama ever.” People are watching it to see just how bad it is (raises hand).
The show is ostensibly a legal drama about women divorce lawyers slaying the patriarchy in the name of personal enrichment and empowerment in the most meaningless and capitalist sense of the term.
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To a degree, I get the appeal of the badness. Gwyneth Paltrow’s View From the Top — arguably her worst-ever movie — is barely watchable, but also just so hilariously terrible that people appreciate it ironically in retrospect more than 20 years later. But part of what makes View from the Top so fascinating to watch today (and it also has some truly garish costumes) is that Gwyneth decided to star in it right after winning her Oscar. In All’s Fair, Kim Kardashian — who cannot act and has no acting pedigree — is the star. While Gwyneth could do a lot with her ridiculous part in View From the Top, Kim Kardashian cannot offer any more emotion in her scenes than she can in one of her typical selfies. As an actress, she has no podium from which to fall. She’s just doing this because… attention. Skims promotion. Impressions.
As for the others — Naomi Watts, Sarah Paulson, Glenn Close, Niecy Nash — well, I learned in the Vogue podcast that they signed on without reading a script. So that explains that.
But to say that this show is worth watching for the clothes alone — maybe that’s true if Kim Kardashian’s red-carpet appearances are appointment viewing for you.
If that’s not you…
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