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Draped garments haven’t looked this good since 750 B.C.⁠⁠ ️: @marknmarkn⁠Styling: @louise__ford⁠Model: @saaracaballero at at The Society Management; @karynamaziar at Oui Management⁠Casting - @julialangecasting⁠Hair: @soichiinagaki⁠Makeup: @thierry.do.nascimento⁠Manicure: @priscillia.mybeauty⁠Production: @cinqetoilesproductions

After months of speculation, fashion’s most prestigious job was just given to Matthieu Blazy.⁠⁠The 40-year-old French-Belgian designer comes to the Parisian fashion house after a successful four-year run at Bottega Veneta, where his achievements include reinventing its signature woven Intrecciato handbags and introducing the brand’s first fragrances in decades. Amid a global luxury spending slowdown, Bottega was the rare brand in Kering’s portfolio that saw growth this past quarter. ⁠⁠The choice of Blazy indicates a desire for a low-drama, high-touch designer who could boast the same kind of longevity that Karl Lagerfeld, who held the top role at Chanel for over 30 years, enjoyed.⁠⁠Read more about how Blazy won fashion's hunger games at the link in our bio.⁠⁠( : @nachoalegre, ️: @rorysat)

@charlidamelio catapulted to social-media fame with dance videos. Now she’s part of ‘& Juliet,’ where stunt casting is becoming part of the sales strategy.⁠⁠She isn’t the star of “& Juliet”; she’s an ensemble member with no lines. Still, since her Oct. 29 debut, the average dollar amount of tickets sold for all performances of the show in a single day has gone up by about 17% compared with the daily average from Jan. 1 to Oct. 28, a spokeswoman for “& Juliet” said. The show has also seen dramatic growth in engagement on its social-media accounts. ⁠⁠“I think any sort of increase that we’ve seen in sales is because there’s now a wider audience that knows about ‘& Juliet’ because of Charli’s following,” said Eva Price, the show’s executive producer. On Wednesday, the show announced D’Amelio would be extending her run from January to April 2025. ⁠⁠Read more at the link in bio. ( ️: Ashley Wong, ️: Bruce Glikas/Getty Images)⁠

Holiday gift lists are more fun when they’re someone else’s. Here’s what a handful of high-profile taste arbiters—chefs, actors, and athletes—want to give this year. Find out what they want to get at the link in bio. ( ️: Kayleen Schaefer, ️. 1. Andrew Kelly/REUTERS, 2. Jason Miller/Getty Images, 3. Andrew Kelly/REUTERS, 4. Lucas Jackson/REUTERS, 5. Via Instagram/@mollybaz)

A few weeks into filming “Maria,” director Pablo Larraín and his lead, Angelina Jolie, stopped talking to each other between takes. ⁠⁠“After we called ‘cut,’ I just looked at her and she would look at me, and just by how we looked at each other, we knew what we wanted to do,” said Larraín, 48. ⁠⁠Larraín’s movie, which starts streaming on Netflix Dec. 11, imagines the final days of Maria Callas, one of the most renowned opera singers in the world. Callas was private about her tumultuous personal life. Even after making the movie—for which he read eight biographies and watched as many documentaries and interviews as he could—the director said he still didn’t really feel like he knew who Callas was.⁠⁠“I think Angelina has that [quality], too,” he said. “I think most people think they know a lot about her. But I don’t think we really know, and that is something that works really well when playing someone with the same level of mystery.” ⁠⁠“Maria” is the last movie in Larraín’s “important women” trilogy, which also includes “Jackie,” his 2016 film about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and “Spencer,” the 2021 movie about Princess Diana. ⁠⁠We talked to the director about his favorite place to go for a walk and why he doesn’t call any of his movies biopics. Read it at the link in bio. ( ️: @laneflorsheim, ️: Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for IMDb)

“Wicked” followed its big debut at the box office with four Golden Globe nominations Monday morning, when the musical received nods for best motion picture in the musical or comedy category, along with nominations for its stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. ⁠⁠But it was the wildly unorthodox movie musical “Emilia Pérez” that led the pack with 10 nominations, including nods for director Jacques Audiard and actresses Karla Sofía Gascón and Zoe Saldaña.⁠⁠The Globes will kick off the 2025 award season when they air Jan. 5 on CBS. ⁠⁠The other nominees for best comedy or musical film were “Anora,” “Challengers,” “A Real Pain” and “The Substance.”⁠⁠Read more at the link in bio. ( ️: @johnjurg, ️: Universal Pictures/Everett Collection)

The finale of “Somebody Somewhere” the cult hit from comedian-actress-cabaret-singer @bridgeteverett, airs tonight. "I think it’s shown me once and for all to stop underestimating myself. That’s probably the best thing that’s come from it," said Everett about the show. ⁠⁠We talked to the star about her saucy karaoke phase, the beauty of Kansas wheat fields and the secret talent that bubbles up into her performance on the show. Read it at the link in bio. ( ️: @ellengamerman, ️: Sandy Morris/HBO)

Once reserved for granola-loving hippies, the term "crunchy mom" has been embraced by a range of women who are pursuing a more natural way of life. That could mean avoiding chemical cleaning products, cutting down on single-use plastics and opting for organic and unprocessed foods. For some, the lifestyle extends to health and medical decisions, such as protesting water fluoridation and choosing not to vaccinate their children. Many of these women, who cut across partisan lines, say they’ve found a champion in Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the medical skeptic who is poised to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. ⁠⁠During his independent presidential run, Kennedy promised to address voters’ complaints about food quality and the medical system in the U.S. After bowing out of the race, he endorsed Donald Trump. The former president adopted Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” platform, gaining a number of his supporters in the process. Read more at the link in bio. ( ️: Sara Ashley O’Brien, ️: @paytonhartsell)

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Mixing animal print accessories livens up winter looks. ⁠⁠Photography: @louisethornfeldt and @mariathornfeldt⁠Styling: @katelynjgray⁠Model: @victoriia_evseeva at Oui Management⁠Casting: @julialangecasting⁠Hair: @laurentphilippon⁠Makeup: @patrickglatthaar⁠Manicure: @beatrice_eni⁠Set design: @felixgesnouin⁠Production: @faragoprojects⁠

With nearly a billion Spotify streams and a record stint at the top of the charts, "shaboozey's "A Bar Song" is uniting fans of honky-tonk and hip-hop. Read more about it at the link in bio. ( ️: Neil Shah, ️: 1. Ralph Bavaro/NBC/Getty Images, 2. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images for spotify)

The race to reopen Notre-Dame cathedral has not stopped since the moment it caught fire in the early evening of April 15, 2019. Hours after the blaze was extinguished, French President Emmanuel Macron went on TV and pledged to rebuild the landmark within five years — and to make it more beautiful than before. For Macron, the incident marked a chance for him to revel in his role as a statesman who would rally the masses to support the renewal of the beloved icon. The people of France supported the effort in the immediate aftermath: Within days of the fire, there were donations of more than $900 million.But in the years that followed, the dramatic race to restore the cathedral was beset by pushback, controversy, and outrage.Tap the link in bio to read more, via @wsjmag in Apple News+.Photo: Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/AFP, via Getty Images